The European Union and Brazil announced on February 24 that they will lay an undersea cable connecting their two continents in order to keep the United States from spying on EU-Brazilian communications.

“We have to respect privacy, human rights and the sovereignty of nations,” Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff said of the $185 million cable project. “We don’t want businesses to be spied upon.”

Last year, after learning that the U.S. had been tapping her cell phone and e-mail, Rousseff canceled a trip to Washington. Now, she and her European counterparts are working toward solutions that shut the United States out. The planned cable would stretch some 3,500 miles—from Lisbon, Portugal, to Fortaleza, Brazil—and would allow the EU and Brazil to stop relying on America’s undersea cables for their communications.

On the same day, Rousseff and her European counterparts also expressed hope for a breakthrough in trade negotiations between the EU and Mercosur—a Latin American economic bloc of which Brazil is a member. The two sides have been working toward a mammoth free trade deal since 2000, but the talks so far have produced few results.

Their mutual anger over U.S. spying may prove to be exactly the catalyst needed to jolt the trade deal to life.

“For the first time, I think we are close to achieving that objective,” Rousseff said. “I think both sides are very much aware of the importance of this trade agreement.”

European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said the agreement aims to expand far beyond just Brazil. “It will allow for the completion of an economic area in the long run between Europe and South America.”

At present, the United States is still South America’s largest trade partner, but its position has been sliding to make way for stronger ties between Europe and the Latin American nations.

This shift is something one certain news source predicted decades in advance of its occurrence.

“[T]he United States is going to be left out in the cold as two gigantic trade blocs, Europe and Latin America, mesh together and begin calling the shots in world commerce,” the May 1962 Plain Truth magazine warned.

Under the editorial eye of world educator Herbert W. Armstrong, the Plain Truth reiterated that same prediction in many articles for decades. Since Mr. Armstrong relied on the Holy Bible for understanding, he knew far in advance that communism would fail to entice the Latinos and that British/American influence in Latin America would dwindle. He relied on Scripture for understanding, so Mr. Armstrong knew it would be Europe that would ultimately achieve its long-term goal of economic and religious domination of Latin America.

After Mr. Armstrong’s death in 1986, the Plain Truth abruptly stopped printing articles about EU-Latin American cooperation and other Bible-based prophecies. But in the early 1990s, the Philadelphia Trumpet sprung into action to pick up where the Plain Truth left off. Since then, the Trumpet has repeatedly echoed Mr. Armstrong’s forecast in articles like this, this and this.

The February 24 news about the planned EU-Brazil cable project and the fresh enthusiasm for a Europe-Mercosur free-trade deal show that the EU today is making rapid progress toward its longtime goal. And it shows—just as Mr. Armstrong predicted—that it will be to the detriment of the United States.

To understand more, read “Europe’s Latin Assault” from our free booklet about the startling accuracy of Mr. Armstrong’s geopolitical forecasts, He Was Right.