Last decade, foreign policies of Brazil and Venezuela have been particularly active. Brazil because has aimed to become a regional power, has influenced southamerica countries and at the same time has taken initiative in multilateral scenes next to great and emergent powers. Venezuela, because from the arrival to the power of the president Hugo Chávez it has developed a extremely aggressive foreign policy with the United States and its allies in the region, and extremely benevolent with his commercial and ideological partners, using as main political tool, the Venezuelan petroleum resources and principally, its revenues.