Union of South American Nations experience different levels of privations arriving, in extreme cases, to the absolute poverty. However, it is necessary to emphasize that poverty in South America has been reduced in a surprising way, especially in the Southern Cone and North of South America. Today, thanks to the development of many South American nations, it has allowed the world, their eyes on some governments, even forming part of economic blocs like G20 and BRICS. Although this reality is common to the entire South American group, the countries of the so-called Southern Cone (Argentina, southern Brazil, Chile, and Uruguay) present more positive socioeconomic data
2012 FEI Nations Cup Promotional League August 12, 2012 – Start: 3:00 pm, prize money: € 30,000 CSIO 5* – August 23, 2012 to August 26, 2012 – Moscow, Competition: Friday, August 23, 2012 – Start: 5:00 pm, prize money: € 80,000 CSIO 2* – September 13, 2012 to September 16, 2012 – Markopoulo Olympic Equestrian Centre, Markopoulo Mesogaias, "cancelled" The best-planced team of the 2012 North and South American League, Canada, have the permission to start in the 2012 Promotional League Final. A team of a country that belongs to one of the 2012 FEI Nations Cup teams can not earn points in this league.