Brazil has announced its exit from Unasur after receiving the presidency of the bloc

The announcement from Brazil comes just days after Argentina and Paraguay also announced their decision to leave the forum on regional integration.

"The Brazilian government on Monday denounced the Constitutional Treaty of Unasur, which formalizes its exit from the organization," said a statement issued by the Brazilian Foreign Ministry, the news agency reported. EFE.

According to Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the decision was communicated to the Government of Ecuador, which is the depository of the agreement by which the Unasurand it will come into force six months from today.

The Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs recalled that In April of last year, the governments of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Paraguay and Peru had already decided together to suspend their participation in Unasur because of the "prolonged crisis of the body", a situation that "has not been changed since".

The block has not been able to elect a general secretary since 2017 and has not been met due to internal disagreements.

The statement also recalls that on March 22, the governments of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay and Peru signed a document in which they have expressed their intention to constitute the Forum for the Progress of South America (Prosur) replacing Unasur.

"The new forum will have a light and flexible structure, with clear operating rules and an agile decision-making mechanism, as well as the full validity of democracy and respect for human rights as essential requirements. for its members. ", according to the text of the Brazilian Chancery.

The decision came a few hours later Bolivia announced that he had transferred the interim presidency of Unasur to Brazil after the failed attempts at reunification of foreign ministers of member countries.

The Bolivian Chancellor, Diego Pary, said at a press conference that Bolivia had sent the "official communication" of the transfer of the provisional presidency of the agency to Brazil after having exercised for a calendar year, to count of April 12, 2018.

The rules of the body stipulate that the presidency is transferred to the different member countries in their alphabetical order. Brazil should receive it from Bolivia.

The first countries to formalize their final exit from the body were Colombia and Peru, to those who followed Ecuador, which announced last March the abandonment and asked to return to the administration of the building of the organization built on its territory the headquarters of Unasur.

Paraguay It is next Thursday that he announced that he had begun the disengagement process, a decision followed by Argentina last Friday.

The only members of the Unasur Uruguay, Guyana, Bolivia, Suriname and Venezuela are still active.

Unasur was born in 2008 as a progressive project promoted by Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. Néstor Kirchner, Brazil's Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Ecuadorian Rafael Correa and Bolivia's leader, Evo Morales, have died.