Lavrov, in South Africa (BRICS member): "BRICS is a new type of partnership...not based on the master-slave principle. It's not a structure where you issue a command and everybody accepts it, as we now see in NATO."

Lula, in Buenos Aires: "Why not create a single currency [for Latin America] so we don't depend on the dollar?" A BR-ARG win-win. In synch with BRICS+. Lula is now a target. AGAIN.