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or protecting the environment. In Brazil and throughout Latin America, NGS are non-profit organizations, not representative by delegation and that institutionalize
their agents (Landim, 2008). Furthermore, these southern NGO groups have depended on financing from "North" agencies (Landim, 2008). Meyer and others
believe that Southern NGOs offer two positive economic and political roles in the global community in general and Latin America in particular (Meyer, 1999). For one thing, the NGOs are
capable of bringing in new technologies and ideas, as well as providing jobs and training (Meyer, 1999). On the other side of the coin, NGOs can help bring in international
coalitions to help Brazil and other Latin American countries take control of their society, even in the face of globalization (Meyer, 1999).
One such NGO has been Corporate Accountability International, which is working closely with local Zero Tobacco Network and other NGOs in Latin America to urge support of the Framework
Convention on Tobacco Control (Corporate Accountability International, 2005). Despite the fact that globalization is a fairly new phenomenon for Brazil
(Latin American countries only began opening their markets in the early-to-mid 1990s), the earliest NGO activity in that region was dated back to the mid-19th century, which focused on controversial
trade issues such as trading of slaves, opium, prostitution and child pornography (Meyer, 1999). Other NGOs, in the meantime, were involved with worker solidarity, transportation issues and even wildlife preservation
(Meyer, 1999). NGOs really exploded in Latin America during the 1980s - not so coincidentally, at that time, the U.S. Agency
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