Brazzil

Lula has legalized corruption in Brazil.

He even cricizes, publicly, the CMPI reports for the accusation of corruption.

The problem is that he originally was against the opening of an investigation, and when he finally accepted it, he assured that he wont interfere or influence the investigations.
But this did not stop him to criticize many times the reports issued.

He is always in total contradicition with what he said earlier, at every step of the crisis.
And always publicly.

Simply stated he is not a man of trust.

He betrayed not only his own promises constantly during all his life but he also betrayed those who voted for him.

One wonders, if to be a communist and still believe in the theory one must be crazy. One definition of being crazy is continuing to do or believe in the same thing and expect different results. Where has communism been successful? Most communists govenments have run themselves into the ground. Some have learned from the mistake and are following Captialist tendencies. Even Communist China is following that path. The only question is how long can China's Communist Party remain in power.

The second point, I have is why do people lionize someone like Castro for the job he has done and the good works he has done for his people. Castro has only survived because of thre benafactos: the USSR until they collapsed, now Venzuela, the USA trade embargo has helped his image. He is not democratic and oppresses his people but he is still a hero for the people who say they are concerned with the needs of the people. Why don't they emulate the socialist democracies of France or Germany. Oh, I forgot they let their people decide on their futures. Communism the system already knows what you want and your future.

"Who will save democracy in Brazil?" One thing is certain: after 500 years with power in the hands of the elitist right wing, democracy can never go back there to find a saviour

after 500 years with power in the hands of the elitist right wing

Someone needs to crack open a history book or two...geesh

For a long time, Brazil was dominated by Portugal. In those days slavery were by the millions, imported from Africa.

Later, Brazil found its freedom.

At that time a minority of the Portuguese descendants residing in Brazil took power either through manipulated elections or through military power.

Today, nothing has changed !
The minority elite still controls politically and economically the country.

Wealth inequality remains.
So much that you are almost the worst in the world on this subject.

Politics and economy are controlled by the minority elite and politicians, from left or or right.

Corruption is at the highest level ever and is the daily life of backdoors dealings, corruption so deeply rooted that even your civil servants are doing red tape to increase illegally their official wages.
Worse, under Lula mandate, not only corruption has been by now legalized, but the illegal money is now coming from state agencies and pension funds. They now use the money that is not their own money but money belonging to actual and future pensioneers and money paid through taxes to the government.
WHOAAAA what a shame and what an insult to the brazilian society.
Quite an innovation.

The one thing that has changed is the import of slaves.
NOW YOU ALREADY HAVE THEM BY THE MILLIONS, AT YOUR DISPOSAL, LOCALLY, PARKED EITHER IN THE POOREST STATES, OR IN THE FAVELAS OF THE RICHEST STATES.
Those who control the country have no wish or desire to provide them with enough food, jobs, education and healthcare. They can then control them better by just keeping them alive, at their disposal, to get their vote in time of elections, like this year for example..

Brazil reality is that all brazilian society belongs to this minority, and the country is their farms.
Therefore, by definition, slavery still exists in Brazil, even far more than 2 centuries ago.

Slavery is simply disguised in an apparent democracy.
YESSSS JUST AN APPARENT DEMOCRACY !!!!

50 years ago, actually developed countries were not richer than Brazil but were devastated by wars.
Cases in in mind, the whole Europe, Japan.

And in just the last 20 years or so, many poor countries grew far in excess than Brazil.
Cases in mind, South Korea, Taiwan, China, Singapor, Thailand, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Ireland, just to name a few.

If these countries have been able to grew far more than you, you cannot continuously put your own failures on the back of developed countries.

Even your failure of your decision to tie your currency to the US dollar has been a disaster.
In the meantime China and Hong Kong have successfully been able to maintain it during the same time !!!!
For those with a short memory, let me remind you that until 4 or 5 years ago, eveyone said that the China currency was way OVERVALUED and that a crisis looms like in South America.
Well, well, they continued to tie their currency to the US$ and now everyone says they are unfair because their currency is way UNDERVALUED.
While with a UNDERVALUED OR OVERVALUED currency, China demonstrated that any way you look at it, they were so far been able to beat all the world's growth.

Why have you not been able to do the same ?
Simply because of mismanagement by your political and economical elite.

When you fail when others succeed, you are simply unfair to accuse someone else of your own failures.

But unfairness is the daily life in Brazil, as explained earlier.

... Is a Real Threat to World Peace.

Since the Soviet Union poses no longer a barrier, the USA is a bull out of control. Thank God for China, make the Washington thugs think twice and to counter balance American imperious hegemony.

Without challenges, it is a scary thought of George Bush at the control knob!

Good Day.

... Is a Blessing to the World.

Since the end of the Soviet Empire, the threat to liberty now comes from Islamofascism and China.

Thank God for the people of this country, who have always given their own lives for the cause of freedom, against all the forces of totalitarianism.

God Bless America, and God bless George W. Bush!!!

Ass. A grateful Brazilian.

> Today, nothing has changed !
> The minority elite still controls politically and economically the country.

How would that be different from your country?

> 50 years ago, actually developed countries were not richer than Brazil but
> were devastated by wars.
> Cases in in mind, the whole Europe, Japan.

Not quite, Japan was already an industrialized country before the war, in some cases more advance than US. The bombs fell in two cities, not the entire country.

Well, Europe needed to be fixed by US in order to put some resistance to Soviet Union.

> And in just the last 20 years or so, many poor countries grew far in excess
> than Brazil.
> Cases in mind, South Korea, Taiwan, China, Singapor, Thailand, Mexico,
> Puerto Rico, Ireland, just to name a few.

Not quite.

>Even your failure of your decision to tie your currency to the US dollar has
> been a disaster.

Not quite. Who did that was Argentina, not Brasil. You see, it's two different countries...

But in face of you apparently complete lack of ground, this has been one of your minor mistakes so far.

> While with a UNDERVALUED OR OVERVALUED currency, China
>demonstrated that any way you look at it, they were so far been able to
>beat all the world's growth.

Moronic oversimplication. How old are you?

> Why have you not been able to do the same ?
> Simply because of mismanagement by your political and economical elite.

Wow, I guess all we need is a very intelligent person like you.

> When you fail when others succeed, you are simply unfair to accuse
>someone else of your own failures.

Well, maybe after 10 years of idiotic politics enforced by US as conditions for loans people have a point to think so. Let's see, diminish investments in education, health, etc, etc.

the industrial capacity of Japan was destroyed totally.

And the difference today between the EU and Brazil are obvious :
- No hunger
- No under nourrished citizens
- every one has more tha basic education
- every one can go to the universities if they do the studies efforts.
- more healthcare
- Even many of the the poors have a car, a PC.
- electricity is everywhere
- The minimum wage is around EU 1200 or
around Reais 3400 per month. And this is despite your currency went up sharply i the last 2 years or so.

And from what I know, the minimum wage in Brazil is Reais 340 or just 1/10th.
And your cost of living is not 10 times cheaper. NO WAY !
And millions of Brazilians dont even make the minimum wage !

If the above is not a difference, ask the question to YOUR POORS !
They a dreaming to get only half of what was mentionned.
But dreams it will remain for them, unfortunately.

Cheers

Sorry but what has been the difference in Brazil between when the Soviet Union was still the second superpower and now ?

NONE.

YOU HAVE ALMOST JUST THE SAME INJUSTICE, CORRUPTION, HUNGER; SLAVERY, POVERTY, MASS KILLINGS OF INNOCENTS BY POLICE, INSECURITY, LACK OF EDUCATION, IMPUNITY, TAX EVASION, RED TAPE, BUREAUCRACY AND RACISM !.

1. The president has no brain of its own. It have to be fed mainly with s**t. It works fro the cattle anyway.
2. The president's brain cannot be shaken or all nuts and bolts get loose.
3. The persident is a puppet.
4. Comunist Brazil. Someone (or some-lots-of-one) just can't think straight. Too much Colombian "white powder" is being distributed to the president and his acolytes.
5. The whole World know that Comunism is dead-meat. Lula and his gangaters will revirve it?
No way,Jose!
6. Who will support the so called brazilian comunism? China? That's nice. Soon Pau Ling Flucking Ping Pong a*****e will be leading the country. Bye Bye lula and he rest of his sonofabitches.
7. Will the democractic USA and EU let this happpen?
8. Scary, the possibility of this president be re- elected again. Comunism? Where will they put the brazilian gulags? Rio, Bahia, Northeast? Caiman isles,
Gotta be somewhere cold and desolate. Will Russia lend some gulag places to brazil? For a fee of course
I got it, the gullag will be:

A) Tax the beaches
B) No more Carnival.
C) Close all soccer fields
D) No more beer or alcoholic beverage.
E) Shoot all the drug dealers.

That will be a REAL gulag and not the fancy one estabilished by the idiotcalled Stalin.
These five pints above are really sadistic.

9. Back in '64 the Government tried to install a communist heaven in brazil? What was the outcome?
Militarism. Which by the way was the seed to the corruption we see today.
10. Communism in brazil? That's the best joke I heard in years.
11. "...Marco Aurélio Garcia openly expressed his personal desire to re-establish Soviet-style communism" .
This guy is as stupid as a doorknob. Or` brain-dead.
Soviet-style comminism? That kind of communism is dead and buried. Perhaps this a*****e thinks he will also re-estabilish communism in todays' Russia.
12. ..."if the horizon that we search... bulls**t" is time to recontruct it? Who will finance the political winds towards communism? Colombia? Not a chance.
Colombia doeasn't have enough cocaine to feed into the brazilian politicians and elite.

I'm tired of writing all this .

The vast majority of Americans are clueless regarding the past of faraway lands as well as their own, dangerous in so much as we share this planet with other ethnicities and historical illiteracy breeds misunderstanding which leads to wars. It has been said once before, "those who forget the past are condemned to relive it," or words to that effect, a caveat that the principle also applies to us all.

In 2002, President George Bush began to drum up a war fever in America with a view to toppling Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, alleged to be the possessor of weapons of mass destruction. Bush did so without providing any evidence, cost estimates (lives and money), or the "why now" explanation, or long-term implications of such a war. By October 2002, the United States Congress not only granted the president a virtual declaration of war for a historically unprecedented "pre-emptive war," but it did so without raising any questions of such an unprovoked invasion. Only a democratic society accustomed to and predisposed to the use of war would accept it so quickly, without asking questions or demanding answers. The reality is that war, whether on a large or small scale, have been an ever-present feature of American life from this country's earliest days. Violence, in varying forms, according to leading historians, has accompanied virtually every stage and aspect of American history, and now imprinted upon the American psyche, as propensity to violence. American leaders through most of the last century cultivated the national self-image, a myth of America as a moral "peace-loving" nation that the American population seems unquestioningly to have embraced.

The biggest crime since WWII has been the American foreign policy, and I tend to agree!

The cost of wars to the United States has been the decline of American prestige around the world, as the majority of world public opinion considers the US a "threat to world peace." I don?t think it is about ?right and left? but rather, about ?right and wrong!? What is the use of running when you are on the wrong road? My pursuit is to understand whether the United States is a ?peace-loving or warmonger? nation.

keol

Aren't the Government bored with the state of Brazil and the institutionalised corruption within its country?

How can the Government treat its own people with such contempt and then boast about technology, inflation, and statistics?

I do not understand how this Government thinks because most decent democracies think about its population as a whole and promotes fairness and equality for all.

Brazilian News seems repetative and tedious and there are never any forthcoming developments which one can feel and see that things are moving in the right direction.

I think Brazil needs reform from Top to Bottom so that it can root out all this corruption and get rid of this unnecessary red tap which is hindering progress and development.

The Government is spinning around like a dog trying to catch its tail and one day it will catch this tail and stop and see the mess it has made when the bubble bursts and reality sinks in.

Keep on spinniiiiiiing

America is the only nation in history which has miraculously gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization?

Long Live Osama, Short Live the Chimp (Bush)

hehehe...Keol

I'm just curious to know where your from. It's true that Bush and U.S. leaders have made wrong choices in the past. What government is perfect. If you find one let me know. One thing is for sure, I wouldn't trade living in the U.S. and having the freedoms I do for anything in the world. Without a doubt the U.S. government has flaws, but it still is doing one heck of a job. And for you to praise Osam Binladin is pretty messed up. I don't think your right in the head. I don't care if its the United States, Iran, China, Brazil, France, or any other country in the world, when you have 3,000 innocent people murdered by cowards flying planes into buildings, it's just not right. Those people didn't deserve that. No one does, no innocent person does. You need to re-examine the way you think.

George Bush has been a blessing for the American people. He is moral, honest and has values that many Americans still cherish. He is a born-again Christian, which means he is going to heaven. His faith helps him to guide our country through rough times and practice "compassionate conservatism." Thank God George Bush is president.

Have any of you faggots ever been to brazil?? Because by the sound of it none of you have, you all make it sound as if the country is going to hell when in fact its recovering, why don't you all just stay in little old white america and talk about your own problems

Racism in Brazil? Really, i find it quite rare. I don't say we have only few, racism is EVERYWHERE. But really, i have never seen a REAL racist in brazil. You can see a mineiro mocking a carioca or vice versa, or even a white mocking a black (And vice-versa!) but they are never really serious. The only racism i see in Brazil is racist jokes, usually followed by surprised looks and "Man, that's racism! What the hell are you saying?!". There are, indeed, crazy people who kill blacks or homossexuals. But those cases are really lower than the avarage, specially U.S. Right, KKK? Right, Mosques burnt after 9/11? Right, largest muslim-hater population in the world?

And the good things U.S has done, really, they all say "OH, we saved the world from the evil russians!". Like if they really did it for the freedom of all. The same with the marshall plan or the help with abolishing slavery in many countries. I refuse to say "thank you". They did not do this because they wanted the world to feel better. They did dis because they could get profit.