Brazzil

nevermind, rolnaldo has be voted the best player in the world again and sao paluo are the best club and its carnival soon. your making sound like brazil has problems. give youself a payrise and have the month off. after all your in bazil.

order and progress???

Qwa qwa qwa....Perfect! We kicky futebol bem, we da best em da world.... he he. Quem liga sobre o resto....

Sou Brasiliero, Sou Idioto!

Lula is against other nations subsidies, but is the first to provide subsidies to large and small brazilian farmers with heavy lending at rates of 6 to 10 % instead of of 40 or as high of 100 % interests rates others brazilians have to pay on their borrowings..
He also provide export financing and tax credits to exporters. Things that are obviously bad when others nations do it.
Even tha majority of brazilian farmers are against his requests at the WTO. He only defends the minority brazilian large farmers.

Yesterday, he publicly said that Brazil is highly competitive in the IT, manufacturing and service sector. But he is opposed to opening doors in these sectors.

In fact lies, self contradicition from one speech to another is the only consistency of his daily comments.

He is also refuting and denying that he ever promised the creation of 10 millions new jobs during his first mandate, as he sees now that he will be far away of his official and public commitments.
The same is happening for the MST settlements. 400'000 promised, so far after 3 years around 200'000 done, but keep insisting that he will stick to his promise, forgetting that he cut the budget for this program from 1.7 billions Reais to less than 900 millions.
Again the same for the infrastructure spending, where he agrees, provide a high budget, reduced later by over 60 % !

He is simply not a leader that should be trusted. He is changing his mind every week, sometimes every day, sometimes even in his same speech.

He does not know what he is talking about !

so pro-gringo this article is!

what the hell do you expect when the goddamn brazilian blanco oligarchy in cahoots with the evil and devilish gringo imperialists and big corporations plunder the resources of the world's most richest biological nation (a.k.a - brazil) for the benefit of only a small minority of the racist blanco elite/oligarchy in brazil and for a few f**ken gringo imperialist blood sucking corporations and imperialists!

at the same time, 70% of the population in brazil, who are non-white or poor whites get nothing but 513 years of racial exclusion, no access to land (as all land is hoarded by the racist oligarchy), little representation in parliament, and little political clout.

compared to bolivia, where evo morales and his indigenous party won large majorities in not only the presidential, but also in the senate and congress, brazil's congress and senate must be the most undemocratic institution in the developing world (this along with brazil being the most world's most inequitable wealth index place is what the country is famous for, not for just her natural beauty), since the right wing lunatics from the racist land stealing ruralist party and other right wing groups dominate brazil's congress.

The PT and other left and socialist party are a minority in the nation. what a sad joke for brazil and her 70% unrepresentated, unseen (all TV only shows blondes "ARYANS" in brazil's TV), segment of the country's population.

lula promised the brazil's poor and non-white population and the unrepresented the world, but instead, like (double agent former ecuador president guiterraz) did nothing, accept tell the imperialist gringos, the IMF, and brazil's evil and devilish and anti-poor and racist oligarchy: "continue your pillage of this great brazilian land, continue your stealing, continue your racist abuse of brazil's non-white working classes and campesinos, and in return I will give you tax breaks and more assistance from the IMF!"

what a shame for brazil to have a president, who does not have the backbone to fulfill his campaign promises. lula epitomizes the stereotype of those politicians who promise the sun to the electorate, but deliver to them only the toilet paper, and more gringo and oligarchy oppression, and feudalism.

brazil really needs a strong and honest leader such as the likes of hugo chavez (venezuela), fidel castro (cuba), daniel ortega (nicaragua), lazaro cardenas (mexico), velasco (peru), and robert mugabe (zimbabwe) to redistribute the lands and resources of the vast nation to its non-white majority and poor population through a real socialist revolution.

I don't agree with what John Fitzpatrick said. I am a researcher of the Institute of Latin American Studies, the area of my research is on Brazil.
maybe you have pointed out some problems of Brazil, but you can not impute all of these to the President Lula. I think the problem of Brazil come from it's history, culture....... as to lula, i think he is a good opportunioty for Brazil.

....for Chinese, for all the basic commodities available and their numbers of citizens for your textile export to them !

Smile !!!!!! -))

This said, I never accused Lula as the sole person responsible for the failure of the country. He is just one President after many others, Nonetheless, he is the first leftitst President. But also the one that did the exact opposite of what he promised before getting elected.

Lula is not like Gutierrez ! Lula is doing what the elite brazilian minority is telling him to do. Gutierrez was doing what the USA told him to do.

As to the Predident of Zimbabwe, Mugabe, you are wrong. Before him, it was one of the wealthiest african country, with much export of food and one of the world largest exporter of tobacco. Now it is a very poor country, importing food, exporting much lower quantity of tobacco. After nationalization of farms and redistribution to uneducated blacks, farms are now iddled instead of being well cared for as before.
Total disaster.
It would be like nationalizing the best Brazilian farms and redistributing them to the non farmers poor brazilians. Quality and quantity of the production would and could only collapse as it happened in Zimbabwe !

Concerning Chavez, the only thing he has is oil. Oil is providing him a ton of money. He his simply buying political influence in every South american country. One day, you will deeply regret, but money will still be owed to him.
Money is buying everything in Brazil, even friendship, political alliances, crime impunity, injustice, votes and corruptions at all levels, as you know !!!!!!!!!!!! Same as in an auction market ! Who pays the most....wins !

Sad reality, true tragedy for the brazilian society !

Let Brazil be Brazil.

This article and the comment "Sou Brasiliero, Sou Idioto!" make me think of the mission of Brazzil.com:

"Created in April of 1989, BRAZZIL has been a national respected link between Brazil and all those — Brazilian or not — who feel a kinship with the Brazilian way of life, politics, economy, culture, and soul. Going beyond the report of facts, BRAZZIL brings the whys, the hows and thens."

With friends like you, who needs enemies?

Consistency? What's that for?

That's exactly why I love Brasil. It doesn't have to have a clear shape in order to succeed. Read Macunaíma.

What keeps Brasil together is the people who never hesitate to do the right thing, something valuable the USA will never be able to teach his own people.

We're here to stay, get used to it. =`]

What keeps Brasil together is the people who never hesitate to do the right thing.

YOU HAVE GOT TO BE JOKING?

Hey Mr. John Fitzpatrick .
You're the man.!! Congratulations for your insight.


Get a load on this:

"Lula showed his own ignorance earlier this year when he told a meeting in New York that Brazil shared a border with every Latin American country except Ecuador, Chile and Bolivia, overlooking the fact that Brazil has a 3,000 kilometer border with Bolivia."

Now, change IGNORANCE for STUPIDITY and there you go.
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Hello !!!!

For its part, China did nothing to help Brazil in its desire for a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council and then blocked soybean imports on flimsy technical grounds.

Why would Chine help Brazil ?
What the hell does Brazil wants as "permanent seat" ?
To warm the seats up with the $$$$$ coming form corruption ?
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"[Russia] It was also quick to ban imports of Brazilian beef following the recent isolated incidents of foot-and-mouth disease."

I always told everyone but I was never heard.
The Goverment is ALWAYS sticking its foot in their mouths
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"Brazil has had no serious security problem with its neighbors."

Of course who would want to take over that chicken s**t brazilian people?
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"Most Brazilians will go through their lives without visiting other regions or even states."

Why ? beacuse they DO NOT HAVE MONEY enough to eat
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"One of the few signs that Brazil was beginning to pull its weight in foreign affairs was when it agreed to take charge of the UN peacekeeping force in Haiti".

I guess there was a casuality at that time, when a "soldier" fell off the tree and broke some if his bone(s)?
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"but one wonders if Brazil would keep its troops there if there was a real flare-up of violence and its soldiers started getting killed."

Answer is in their flag.
The YELLOW color in it.
Does that ring a bell????
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"The approach adopted in Hong Kong shows how incompetently Brazil acts in foreign affairs. This should not come as a surprise ...."
John, how's that ?
What did did you expect?
Competency? Thei are pathetic
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"President George Bush..."
What the hell he was doing down there? Bush has a war to take are of.
I just don't understand Bush wasting time with a pea brain President of Brazil.

I'm stopping now. John did a great job.

Lula doesn't have a clue nor do the people who elected him.

Well, this is the type of fool that would come here and give support to John.

There, you have found the president of your fan club.

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain, and most fools do.
~ ~ ~ Benjamin Franklin

Although I do agree with most of what you said about the lack of consistency of Brazilian's Foregin Policy, I wonder if you as a British citzen approves of British PMs a.k.a. US's balls lickers!
IT seems to be compulsory for a PM in Britain to blindly follow US foreign policy, which is in its vast majority a disaster, Iraq is there for people to watch how competent the British and Americans are in foreign policy.

As South America continues in it's leftward tumble; the countries of Brazil, Argentina and Venezula, like fundemental Islam want to return to the past instead of the bright future they once had. The problem is leadership...which all SA so desperatly lacks. A grade school drop out who dresses up like Santa and Sao Joao for photo ops, and a 60's leftist in Venezula fueled only by oil with no vision for his people are a reminder that SA countries will continue to live with the elite few enjoying and the masses exploited...as they have through out their pathetic histories. At least China and India have mainstreamed while this black hole continues it's comedy of errors. Brazil...what a friggin joke.

Do Not Try This At Home:

A partial list of offensive American behavior overseas: Massive war crimes in Vietnam - Destruction of democracy in Chile - Embargo of Cuba but not China or Saudi Arabia - U.S. support for the military junta in Greece 1967-1974 - Total support for Israel's ethnic cleansing of Palestinians - Support for Pol Pot genocide - Funding, weapons and training for Nicaraguan terrorists and illegal mining of Managua harbor - Arrogant, conceited nationalism - Invasion of Haiti, Panama, Grenada, Somalia, Iraq, Afghanistan, attempted invasion of Cuba - Support for Iraqi war crimes and weapons of mass destruction (during the Iraq-Iran war) - Use of GPS systems for world military dominance - Rejection/sabotage of international standards - Environmental delinquency - Unilateral withdrawal from ABM treaty - First use of nuclear weapons in Japan during WW2 - Murder of innocent people in Sudan - Willful disregard of Rwandan genocide - Harassing the creation of the International Criminal Court - Sex overseas by US Americans - Attempting to create/maintain world monopolies - Support for massacres by UNITA in Angola - Export of American recreational drug choices - CIA trained Mujahideen to make heroin from poppies - Korea Airlines KAL 007 spying mission - Disparagement, sabotage, harassment and bullying of the United Nations - Support for enslavement of poor countries - Gulf of Tonkin incident - War crimes against Iraq - Establishment of the new principle of pre-emptive war - Abuse of the IMF as a tool of international blackmail - Attempt of Removal of Mr. Boutros Boutros-Ghali, the Secretary-General of the United Nations - Ethnic cleansing of native Americans - Iraq WMD lies - Sabotage of Russian oil pipelines - Installation of puppet Shah in Iran overthrowing its democracy - Attempts to overthrow/assassinate the elected democratic government in Venezuela… To name just a few!

Enough said... keol

Seems that you´re trying to throw as much crap at the wall as possible hoping that some of it will stick. Your "list of shame" (I just made that up, cool eh?) reads like some extremist tabloid ranting. I mean, come on how can you seriously include "sex overseas" along with your claims of murder, massacres and invasions! You probably work for Brazilian TV or the Press right? This wild America bashing is getting boring.

Let me tell you something: Extinguish this lamentable website and just FORGET ABOUT US... That Fitzpatrick one is a gringo defending the continuation of connivance with imperialism that we´re finally experimenting to get out. For you who - despite seem to like talking about us - don´t know brazillian history, I must say that this scottish guy forgot to mention that US relations with Brasil has imposed us situations like twenty years of a cruel dictatorship. With people like Bush being in the lead of U.S. of North America and making war for a commodity in Iraq we do must be some "anti-american" (funny you use this word to describe our attitude of self-defense against yankee imperialism, when the whole continent was called America by Columbus, so we´re americans too). With friends like you, who needs enemies?

Full of backwards assed white a*****es who can't run sh-t and have to suck the big c-ck of the United States for assistance in finding her own a*****e in broad daylight! :grin

Hey this is so funny..."...continuation of connivance.."!??? What the hell is that? I love that phrase! Doesn´t it just smack of a fuming, teeth clenching Brazilian that gets all his facts straight from local TV or his college friends! Ooops, maybe I´m wrong, I´ve just checked and he actually says....conni vance......oh ok.....you´re talking about some country and western singer.....my apologies Hank.

Good writting about the country. I notice that the author has a good knowledge about Brazil. In the other hand, the text has a very negative point of view about the country. I would like to say that Luís Inácio Lula da Silva won the election for Presidence with the main reason that is that brazilian people had hope that he would make the country better and with a higher developing, that´s why Brazil is having in the first time in our history a President that is from the Worker Party. Even if the country still has its problem, it doesn´t mean that everything lately is negative. Infact, Brazil it´s famous in the world mostly and I would say almost only because of women, soccer and carnival. Which is far from the reality, because Brazil represents a huge power and can offer much more than this for the country and also for the world. Since the writer actually lives in Brazil, you can notice that even with many brazilian people that are careless about the own country, there are brazilian people that have an idea of the power that the country has and are aiming for the better developing of the country. You can see it just with the comments that people left about your text.