Brazzil

....your elected politicians use your country as their farms and the citizens as their slaves farms !!!!!

This explain the ideology of being elected !
the higher your political power is...the more wealth you can amass...through illegal means that is very rarely and seldomly punished...anyway !

Look at today's decision of your Supreme Court :
out of the 18 other members that could be also expelled, the Supreme Court said to stop the investigations and threats of expulsion...for only 6 members !!!
It appears that the 6 members are ALL from the PT party !!!!!!
If that is what you call fair or democracy....please clarify !!!!!!!!
One can call that....cover up...or protection...from the highest legal people !!!!!

"Bush Should Use Brazil's Corruption to Show Real Friendship"

Bush should do a lot of things for his own people.

Anyway, I do not see how this would be beneficial for us. What difference would make for the Brazilian democratic process a friendship from the American president? What could he do to improve our democracy?

They have enough problems internally (Bush himself is facing a loss of prestige in the US) and externally to even think about Brazil.

We should take care of ourselves without influence from any other country. We should start acting like grown ups.

...eventually...if you can ????

But can you ????

True numbers are not the ones that Lula pretends....unfortunately for your society !!!

The world love Brazilians...but not their politicans from left to right with their social injustices, inequalities, corruptions, lack of health, sanitation, basic education, respect for the poors !!!

Your country land is their large farms and citizens are their slaves. They have no intention to change...but every intention to keep it that way !!!!

Wake up, Stand up !!!!

I am sorry but don’t you think that you exaggerate a little in your punctuation?

????? !!!!! ……

What those extras are supposed to mean?

The world loves us Brazilian, you say, but why? We are not better or worse than any other people.

I thought that Brazil only had Samba, beaches, carnival and football. That is the Brazil 'I Love'. What a shock it also has political, social and economic problems, just like anywhere else.

Keep the gringos out of this....Build the infrastructure that carries long sentences for corrupt politicians and, new legislation that expose the privacy (financial records) of anyone involved in government.

10-20-30 years sentences for these scum politicians will go a long way at which point, the democracy will self adjust.

keol

The politicians never read these advices or this site. They are the problem, not the solution. They've a degree in corruption 101. That's why they have their head up their ass. Politicians never go to prison, they retire in Florida, U.S.A.

August 9, 2005 -- U.S. base in Paraguay established to protect Sun Myung Moon's water and land resources. With U.S. troops currently protecting Halliburton's oil operations in Iraq and the CentGas pipeline in Afghanistan, U.S. troops are now being sent to Paraguay, complete with immunity from criminal prosecution by Paraguay or the International Criminal Court, to protect the millions of acres of Paraguayan water and land resources bought over the years by religious cult leader Sun Myung Moon. It is not coincidental that Moon's Unification Church has many followers within the Bush administration. Last month, 500 U.S. troops arrived in Paraguay to expand the Mariscal Estigarriba air base to handle large U.S. military transport planes. Moon's land acquisitions in Chaco Province are just north of the huge Guarani aquifer, one of the world's largest sources of fresh water. In addition, Moon has acquired large tracts of land on the Brazilian side of the Paraguayan border. Local villagers in Paraguay and Brazil claim that most of Moon's land acquisitions were fraudulent and illegal. Moon's World Unification Church operates in Paraguay under a corporate contrivance called the Victoria Company. Paraguay has also announced that everyone entering and leaving Paraguay will be photographed and fingerprinted. Not coincidentally, the new border control system is being financed by South Korea.



The Moon King of Paraguay: Protected by U.S. Troops

There is clearly a split within the Paraguayan government, with the Vice President and Pentagon neo-con ally Luis Castiglioni negotiating, along with a majority in the Paraguayan Congress, close bilateral military ties with the United States, apparently without the concurrence of President Nicanor Duarte. It is no coincidence that considering the oil-centric Bush administration, the Mariscal Estigarriba air base is close to large Bolivian natural gas reserves in the neighboring Bolivian provinces of Santa Cruz and Tarija.

The U.S. move in Paraguay comes at the same time the U.S. is stepping up its "counter-narcotics" operations from its Manta, Ecuador base and Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez is accusing the United States of using Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) personnel in Latin America as espionage agents trying to destabilize his government. In addition, the Paraguayan military operations are seen as a Bush administration attempt to intimidate neighboring Bolivia, where MAS Socialist party and coca farmer (cocalero) leader Evo Morales is poised to become the next President in scheduled December elections after years of popular demonstrations which saw Bolivian workers and peasants deposing a series of pro-U.S. presidents. A Morales government would add another anti-U.S. and free trade government in South America, joining Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, and Venezuela.

So soon, the mothers and fathers of U.S. military personnel will be able to take comfort in sacrificing the lives of their sons and daughters for a self-proclaimed Messiah, a non-English speaking Korean who claims to have saved the souls of Jesus, Moses, Mohammed, Buddha, Stalin, and Hitler and communicates regularly with others in his departed flock of adherents, including all the deceased Presidents of the United States (who, Moon claims, appointed Richard Nixon as their spokesman from the "hereafter").

August 10, 2005 -- Moonie Alert! As a follow-up to the article below on U.S. troops arriving in Paraguay to protect Sun Myung Moon's land holdings, there is this alarming report: Moon Unification Church official and Washington Times deputy managing editor Josette Sheeran Shiner has been nominated by President Bush to be U.S. Alternate Governor of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the Inter-American Development Bank, the African Development Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and the African Development Fund. Shiner has also been nominated to be a member of the Board of Directors of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC). Shiner, who has been Deputy U.S. Trade Representative, became a member of Moon's cult in 1975 when she was recruited in college. Moon's phenomenal wealth has been linked to Asian organized criminal gangs; gambling businesses in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macao; and Asian prostitution rings. Now one of his followers will be involved with multi-billion dollar loans for projects and programs in the world's developing nations. Nice move Mr. Bush!

Shiner on Harvest Moon -- Used to be a time when people who worshipped Moons were committed to institutions as lunatics, now they serve in the Bush administration.

The pure arrogance of what was once was the PT party and the Brazilian judiciary would be laughable if not so tragic. The time honed practice of Brasilians in power has reached a remarkable point. Corruption of this sort has started revolutions on some parts of the planet, when will Brasilians who love their country respond and take responsibility for themselves instead of expecting the Lula's of the world to take care of them. Don't expect any help from the US or the rest of the West, while they supported and tolerrated Lula as an idiot who they were pleased to realize could cause no great harm, his downfall balances the "Chavez factto" in the region, as when (not if) Brasil goes down...it takes all it's neighbors with it. This is what the US hopes for, another example of the un-washed masses unable to take care of their business without US help, what a shame as they seem correct. The region will once again be just what the US wants when the new leftist fail, stooges again of US policy.

I can never fathom why Brazilans want others to take the lead to help to solve THEIR problems insetead of acting like adults and doing for themselves what has to be done! What about a novel concept: stop waiting for what the US sould or should not do and you do it?

And before the stones are thrown, I AM BRAZILIAN.

well I am brazilian too and i study international relations in California. the problem is not thet brazil's citizens are waiting for outsiders to solve their problems. The real problem is that majority of the population is not educated and therefore is living day by day hoping for a meal everytime. The minimum wage in brazil is 200 dollars a month considering that the government taxes the people almost 40% of the value of the food and 605 of the value of goods. It is very easy to blame on the population when the key to turn the game is educating them about the national and international process. it is true that a small percentage goes to school, but 80% os those people go to private schools ( the public sector of education sucks), and their view of how poilitics works is blured. They have seen promises for centuries and all they have is corruption and deshonesty. they gave up on their own country! Why do you think brazilians only love their country during world cup? because thatis when they CAN be proud of who they are.
Politics is not the problem, but the polititions.
Things will not change over night. there is a very deep culture in which "there is no way out. lets just accept it and let it go"

As an American who has lived in Brazil for 13 years, I have gone through various stages of horror, rejection, and indifference to Brazil's political culture. Brazilian politicians are at once a part of, and separate from, the Brazilian people. It is very difficult for one who is outside of such a culture to understand what this means. It has to do at its foundations with the genesis of the country. Brazil was established along the European royalty model of titles and ownership, and complete subjugation of the population. "Nation building" in the U.S.A. sense of the term has never been a priority of Brazilian leadership. Personal fortune, patronage, and total immunity are the hallmarks of Brazilian politics, as they were throughout Europe centuries ago. Whereas Europe has since had its revolutions and movements of equaliy, human rights, and popular inclusion (all of which lead to a more informed and active populace), the story of Latin American evolution to democracy has been different. It is the story of the continuation of "royalty" under the guise of democratic nomenclature; "President" the king, "Senator" the baron, and so on. Politicians feel themselves to be such, and the general populace doesn't have the experience or education to know the difference (it is rare to find a Brazilian who would characterize the office of 'President' as simply an important public servant position. Those who would recognize that they can't change things in such small numbers). The abuses of power so well documented in old Europe continue here, and more importantly, the mentality of powerlessness and subjugation continue. These are VERY difficult to combat from within when the judiciary is just another political arm to perpetuate the status quo. My hope is that Globalization will do the work of tightening up the Brazilian ship. In order to compete in a world increasingly prepared for business, transparency, the rule of law, and true dedication to education and growth must develop, or Brazil will fall by the wayside despite its size and wealth.