Barely six months have passed since Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da
Silva began his second term in office in January 2007. As was to be expected,
the political crisis that has beset the Brazilian state has begun to reemerge
with the same force as in 2005, when Lula was confronting the threat of
impeachment. Those, both on the left and right, who believed that the crisis had
been overcome and had faded into the past were only fooling themselves.
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Where are the junkies AES, Joao and the likes ???????
Is Brazil not a ROTTEN TROPICAL MUD.....as I have stated so many times ?????
Except corruptions, impunity and crimes, nothing works smoothly !!!!!
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Government Has Stopped in Brazil. All Left Are Cops & Robbers Games written by João da Silva,
June 13, 2007
I would like to congratulate the author of this article, M.Ybarra, for being candid about the (non) actions of the Government. It has become a kind of joke to wake up every morning and read about the Cops and Robber games.I am afraid that it is going to continue,until the people get fed up with it.
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Originally published by the World Socialist Web site - www.wsws.org. written by João da Silva,
June 13, 2007
It is quite strange that the original article was published in the World Socialist Web Site.I missed this fact when I read it.
Does it mean that the World Socilalists have written off Lula´s government?. After all Lula is to Brazil what Lech Waleska to Poland. Why did the comrades change their mind with respect to Lula´s government?
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chc It is not mud its a morass written by aes,
June 13, 2007
well the indians received justice. that is a begining.
The police are less and less intimidated by politicians, the brother of the president hmmm. Took some cahones to make that move.
The world looks down on investment in Brazil with each manifestation of political incompetence, look at Bovespa over the past three sessions.
Hard to say which way the wind will blow, but the stench of incompetence is beyond civilized foreberence. How can you trust money to those whose interests are not Brazils but their own?
You guys could f**k up a free lunch.
Half the money for all the infrastructure is in hand and nothing is done with it. Its like Haliburton, but without anything to show for it. At least Haliburton produced the Hoover dam. Where the hell is the department of justice? Where are the newspapers and T.V. reporting that would exist if this were the U.S. like they did with Nixon, and Enron and Godi?
It is a pity, a f**king shame if you people dont demand of your government, that it be a government, a Democracy of the people, by the people for the people. It is the people that gives the government the power to rule in a Democracy, it is not the government that gives the people the right to be ruled.
And why is a World Socialist Web Site the source of this information instead of the democratic national press? There is as much money, more, to be made in honesty as in gross neglegence, incompetence.
they have no fear but fear itself written by FORREST ALLEN BROWN,
June 13, 2007
Yes as long as the governmental officials ,from lula on down to the lowest of the low , and the many layers of police , and military in Brazil are not punished for their actions . they have no fear of jail , prison , fines , losing there jobs .
they do as they wish and the people of Brazil suffer for there crimes.
YOU GOT TO START MAKING CHANGES BRAZIL
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João written by The Guest,
June 13, 2007
"It is quite strange that the original article was published in the World Socialist Web Site.I missed this fact when I read it. Does it mean that the World Socilalists have written off Lula´s government?. After all Lula is to Brazil what Lech Waleska to Poland. Why did the comrades change their mind with respect to Lula´s government? "
The answer: "In less than half a year the false hopes that the worst had passed or that the political crisis had been driven merely by the partisan struggle for the presidency have already been dashed. New corruption scandals have already surfaced, involving various political allies of Lula, compromising the reforms his administration had promised (political reform, labor reform, reform of higher education, tax reform and another social security reform)."
There is a purity to ISMS, Socialism, it is fundamentally based on an almost religious sense of the equality and goodness of man. It is as all ISMS a means to the betterment of the lives of men. It is noble. But corruption, recrudescence is the anti thesis of these noble ISMS. The article has the strength that I would like to see all the media, T.V., print, electronic make manifest. Broadcast daily. Change occurs through repetition, like water moving across stone, it will carve a canyon drop by drop. Truth made manifest drop by drop has the power to transform the corrupt, the sinister, the illegal, to cause change, reform, nobility.
As I have stated in other blogs before, these reforms are the back bone of good economic stability and wealth building, and I can personally atest to the fact that they achieve their goals with some tweaking along the way. Lula has achieved nothing therefore he cannot be a part of the club.
Guest, I wholeheartedly agree with you. These reforms are urgently needed in order to accomplish a better distribution of wealth and also create jobs (and thus bring dignity to the labor).I would like to cite a simple example of the urgent need to reform the current labor laws. All of us know that the labor laws in this country are outdated and almost 60 years old. These laws were written to protect the labor from being absued and of course done with good intentions.FGTS is a very good thing and I dont dispute the fact at all. However during Sarney´s mandate as President, the government created a 40 % fine on the FGTS to be paid to the employee when his contract was terminated.This was supposedly to prevent unemployment,by discouraging the companies from laying off workers. The government found out that it can be a lucrative business for it and during FHC´s regime, it introduced another 10% on FGTS to be paid to the Government itself. It became so lucrative for the workers to cross their arms and do nothing and wait to be fired so that they can get their FGTS plus 40% and get out of the company and THEN hire a lawyer to sue the ex-employer for additional benfits.Of course, the lawyer has to be paid 15% by the employer who has zero chance of winning the case. Under these circumstances, who has the guts to create jobs?
The same thing applies in the case of Tax reform, Social Security reform, Land reform, etc;
I dont think that the current government is interested in doing any reform and as you said it will not accomplish much either.
But as our distinguinshed friend AES says, we have to keep on trying and I am repeating his advice:
The article has the strength that I would like to see all the media, T.V., print, electronic make manifest. Broadcast daily. Change occurs through repetition, like water moving across stone, it will carve a canyon drop by drop. Truth made manifest drop by drop has the power to transform the corrupt, the sinister, the illegal, to cause change, reform, nobility.
A nice advice and a great slogan,Forrest.A positive one too.
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... written by bo,
June 16, 2007
written by aes, 2007-06-12 21:37:10 well the indians received justice. that is a begining.
The police are less and less intimidated by politicians, the brother of the president hmmm. Took some cahones to make that move.
The world looks down on investment in Brazil with each manifestation of political incompetence, look at Bovespa over the past three sessions.
Hard to say which way the wind will blow, but the stench of incompetence is beyond civilized foreberence. How can you trust money to those whose interests are not Brazils but their own?
You guys could f**k up a free lunch.
Half the money for all the infrastructure is in hand and nothing is done with it. Its like Haliburton, but without anything to show for it. At least Haliburton produced the Hoover dam. Where the hell is the department of justice? Where are the newspapers and T.V. reporting that would exist if this were the U.S. like they did with Nixon, and Enron and Godi?
It is a pity, a f**king shame if you people dont demand of your government, that it be a government, a Democracy of the people, by the people for the people. It is the people that gives the government the power to rule in a Democracy, it is not the government that gives the people the right to be ruled.
And why is a World Socialist Web Site the source of this information instead of the democratic national press? There is as much money, more, to be made in honesty as in gross neglegence, incompetence.
starting to sound like me! How long have you been in brazil aes?? Wait until you've been here a decade and as the author said, "the cops and robber games" just don't stop. It's a joke. Most brazilians don't even take their country seriously, how to hell could large, serious foreign investors?
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Moving in the Right Direction written by Ric,
June 17, 2007
If the President has the Socialists pissed off, he must be doing something correctly.
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... written by CA,
June 19, 2007
Ignorant Brazilians do not take this country seriously. The ones who have the ability to protest, to influence the rest of the ignorant mass, where are they? If they don't take this country seriously, then this decadence is their fault. Do they think just as American rednecks who blame historic materialism for being the threat of their lives? Their brain is damaged.
Barely six months have passed since Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da
Silva began his second term in office in January 2007. As was to be expected,
the political crisis that has beset the Brazilian state has begun to reemerge
with the same force as in 2005, when Lula was confronting the threat of
impeachment. Those, both on the left and right, who believed that the crisis had
been overcome and had faded into the past were only fooling themselves.
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Is Brazil not a ROTTEN TROPICAL MUD.....as I have stated so many times ?????
Except corruptions, impunity and crimes, nothing works smoothly !!!!!