Brazzil

As a curiosity, The Financial Times talks about the Brazilian Congressional leadership election of Mr. Rebelo but the word "communist"was carefully avoided.

Actually, Mr. Rebelo talks about democratic values like a truly democratic individual. How peculiar are our politicians!

Lula had democratic and social plans speeches....before he was elected. After the elections.....he changed his mind !

I guess that Rebelo is doing just the same thing !!!

Neoliberalism is a hollow word used in Brazil as coarse language to attack political adversaries.

There is no neo-liberalism in this country.

Brazil is currently divided between the radical left and the social democrats.

Of course, there is also the opportunists of the PFL, who are as much corrupt and anti-liberals as their counterparts of the left-wing parties.

The PC do B, a party which joined the coalition that supported Lula’s presidential candidature in 1989, 1994, 1998, and 2002, was created as a splinter from the old Brazilian Communist Party (PCB) in 1958, following Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev’s denunciations of Stalinist atrocities. The PC do B repudiated the denunciations against Stalinism and aligned itself to Mao Tse-Tung’s China. When China began making political and economic reforms in the 1980s, the PC do B repudiated it and then aligned itself with Albania. But when Albania went to hold its first free and democratic elections, in 1992, the PC do B decided to become non-aligned.

The government’s political coordination until a recent time, Aldo Rebelo, is a member of the PC do B.

Rebelo left the political coordination when he was elected in September 2005 as Speaker of the House of Representatives. President Lula openly promoted the nomination and critics have accused the PT government of making use of “nominations and distribution of money to get a communist to be the Speaker of the House of Representatives”.