Brazzil

...would the Vice President prefers.....to stop the investigations to stop the crisis ????????

Why ???????????? So nobody would be punished ???? And so corrupted people could continue...to corrrupt/be corrupted.....with impunity ???????? SURE !!!!!!!!

As to Lula, before being elected, no doubt he was involved.....with the corruption that took place already earlier!!!!! No doubt he knows a lot of things against his own party but also others !!!!!

Looking in from the outside all that is happening in Brazil at the moment is very damaging for Brazil. Lula's PT party has bought financial stability and Brazilians in a lot of cases are enjoying relative prosperity, do they want to throw that away. If you start pointing fingers at Lula who else are the fingers going to point at, from what I can see most of the Brazilian parliament is still corrupt.

Most politicians the world over have some sort of 'strange' dealings, in Lula's case it seems he is more of a 'naieve' victim then an out right dishonest criminal. Even our Mr Blair has had the finger pointed at him for property dealings that was apparently a misunderstood and I do not beleive he is corrupt.

Brazilians should calm down, since the scandle 'errupted' investment that was coming into Brazil is slowing up - the whole thing is causing uncertainity and now supposide allies are hinting at there own personal ambitions.

Correct me if I am wrong but is this not business as usual?

I could not agree more. Good point.

let your vice president take over and implement more left leaning and land reforming policies, rather than your orthodox economic policies, which only favors the rich and the white and the well connected at the expense of the poor majority in the nation.

the blanco/white oligarchy and the bastard gringo republican and imperialist gringos and their side kicks the IMF and world bank are all behind the ills and poverty of the masses in all of latin america.

viva hugo chavez! viva castro! viva robert mugabe!

Wow, I am moved by your educated and elegant words. Such passion, such IGNORANCE! Only favors the rich and the "white"? Have you ever been to Brasil? Venezuala? Cuba?
The Venezualan pobreza is worse off than ever before, Castro continues to impoverish financially, educationally, and socially los Cubanos. Mugabe single handedly took Zimbabwe from one of the stronger African nations to one of the poorest on the continent...destroying the hopes of all Zimbabweans, white and black. Interesting commomality to Lula, Chavez, Castro, and Mugabe is governmental corruption that strips the potential for any good to come from theirunrealistic political ideals

As a Canadian, I know our own government is guilty of some 'shady' accounting practices but are generally doing a very good job.

I am definately not endorsing these actvities and because of these activities officials will eventually pay the price.

However, i feel Brazil is a country on the verge of becoming something great and just needs stable government to see it through the initial stages.

I really like many of Lula's policies and believe they are on the way to leading the country to less a inequal, impoverished and stronger democratic society.

Hang in there Brazil

I agree with the comment above. Brazil needs to be stable, and if Brazilians can get past this latest episode and Lula can steady the ship then who knows what can be achived.

Most 'Developed Western' people can relate to Mr Lula's policies. Enocouraging investment to lead to long term security and jobs. His government is promoting the good things about Brazil for tourism while not covering up the problems.

It may soon be a good time to be a Brazilian.

As for the Canadian dealings, the government bought a second hand submarine from my government that almost sunk. Just think it is funny!

ALSO NEED TO INVEST IN RAILROADS NOT FREEWAYS AND MORE EDUCATION AMD THE MONEY SYSTEM

Politics in Brazil knows nothing of party loyalty. It seems to me to be more about personal political careers with not too much care about the huge disparities in this country. At the very least President Lula is trying very hard to address these issues and achieving some positive results. I'm inclined to agree with the fact that Brazil is in the control of those who HAVE - mostly white and male from the southern half of the country, from what I can gather so far. Afro Brazilians and women are sadly under-represented. And by the way, it also seems to me that the comments above about Chavez and Fidel are also ill-informed. I have to wonder whether that writer has every visited these countries...?? I think I can talk from some experience, coming from a developing country myself, having worked with Cuba for seven years, having lived there for four years, and currently working and living in Brazil! Give Lula his due. I believe he's the best option Brazil has in order to make a difference both internally and internationally. The alternative would be scary...