Oh, he's cute. Mr. I can never sleep when I'm traveling. He's hugging his pillow like a sloth on a branch.

He couldn't sleep before. Now listen to him. Sounds like an elephant with a chest infection.

Well, they call him a dreamer. And now they're right.

All aboard, Mr. I can never sleep when I'm traveling.

Find all the comfort you need in the quiet lounge.

Piando Ferries, there is another way. This is a

This is CBS I on the world with John Bachelor.

Here's John Bachelor.

The New World Report with Professor Avin Ellis of the U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. He's in traveling. He's in Europe, and we're going to turn our attention to Mercosur.

That stands in the Spanish abbreviation, Mercosur,

for the Southern Common Market.

I'm learning from the professor what that is, why it's important and how it

may or may not be a way of telling the story of the rise and fall of Venezuela, of the rise and

fall of Bolivia and other nations in the Americas.

Professor, a very good evening to you. Thank you for this.

I begin with the understanding of Mercosur as a common market to trade between the originals and the countries applying or being talked about for membership.

Who are the original Mercosaur and how did it benefit them?

Good evening to you.

Good evening to you, John.

Well, originally that the Mercosaur was a free trade pack between the nations, essentially of the

Southern cone.

The heaviest hitter, of course, was Brazil, which accounts for about half of the economy

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