Brazil's Focus on Africa and Poor Nations Is Right Choice, Says Lula
Written by Irene Lôbo
Thursday, 27 January 2005
In a speech at the launching of the Global Call for Action against Poverty, at the V World Social Forum (WSF) in Porto Alegre, in southern Brazil, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said that the encounter confirms that another world is possible, especially when it chooses hunger and poverty as a theme.
The campaign, which represents an initiative by over 100 organizations representing civil society, calls for the pardon of poor countries' foreign debts and changes in international trade, in order to fulfill the Goals of the Millenium proposed by the United Nations (UN).
Lula criticized the time when Brazil had its view fixed exclusively on Europe and the United States, and he affirmed that this stance put the country in the position of turning its back on South America and Africa.
Lula said that, despite being a poor country, Brazil helps finance the development of other South American countries through partnerships with the participation of the National Economic and Social Development Bank (BNDES).
The Brazilian president also referred to the attention paid by Brazil to the African continent and partnerships established with Arab countries and large countries such as India and China.
Repeating (pasting) my comments just created in BRAZZIL.COM written by AUGUSTUS SEVERUS,
November 03, 2009
Worried about the fate of LIBERTY in a Brazil... IF the infamous Brazilian Labor Party starts displaying its true colors written by Augustus, November 02, 2009
Red is the color of PT (Brazilian Workers party), which is unquestionably a completely fake, populist, opportunistic, two-faced, demagogue and EXTREMELY corrupt political organization – which would better be described a “venomous pit of vipers”... Although credit should be given to the semi-illiterate Brazilian president for not following his advisors and corrupt party leaders to attempt amending the Brazilian Constitution in order to emulate the Venezuelan dictator (and his GANG –corja-- of equality totalitarian puppets in Bolivia, Ecuador & Nicaragua), I fear that the socialist PT is beginning to exhibit, display its true colors, and to increasingly allow its hidden agenda to emerge from obscurity: the suppression of Liberty and the Oppression of Brazilian western-oriented society!
As suggested in this editorial, the Brazilians socialists are getting increasing impatient with any kind of opposition, and anxious to emulate the SORDID, DIRTY, DISGUSTING example of the obnoxious Venezuelan Dictator; in fact,
[“VEJA correctly ponders: "it is astounding. Lula does not read newspapers. But he wants to teach how to write newspapers. Bad news, Mr. President. Having 80% of popularity does not authorize anyone to be reporter or editor. There is no journalism in favor. There is no journalism done by the state."/quote]Indeed, the upper echelon of Socialist PT can scarcely wait to start vomiting the same type of garbage which Hugo Chavez and his criminal click do, on a daily basis.
Hopefully the excellent Brazilian weekly VEJA will continue fighting for FREEDOM of speech and for the LIBERTY of Brazilians, for as long as they are permitted to be independent and publish the truth.
"In the perfect world of PTópolis," concludes the magazine, "there is no place for something imperfect, noisy, nosey, investigative, stubborn, free, fallible and, sometimes, even irresponsible like the press."
As such, I would like to express my sincere appreciation for the Publishes of Veja for their courage, value and great service for the Brazilian nation.
In the unfortunate event where the (press) defenders of Liberty, despite their valiant effort, fail to warn Brazilians, and successfully prevent the emergence of a Bolivarian Tyranny in Brazil, my sole remaining hope would rest upon the good hands, conscience and courage or the ULTIMATE DEFENDERS of Brazil: The Valiant Armed Forces of Brazil: ARMY, NAVY and AIR FORCE!
The small, coastal town of Condé is located just a twenty minute's drive from João Pessoa, the capital of Paraíba. The Northeast of Brazil has historically been a place of encounter and mixing between peoples. For millenia groups of indigenous people fished, farmed, migrated and sometimes fought along this large, fertile area.
The Brazilian diplo-MÁ-cia (bad diplomacy) carries on its accelerated course towards the non-acknowledgment of human rights, although sometimes it takes pleasure in saying that it does precisely the opposite. The visit of Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is another example of a diplomatic omission that verges on hypocrisy.
On July 4, 2006, representatives of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay met in Caracas to sign the protocol for the entrance of Venezuela into the Southern Common Market (Mercosur). After two and a half years, the protocol was approved by the legislative bodies of Argentina and Uruguay, and as of now it may be only days away from being ratified by the continent's economic megalith, Brazil.
Some sectors of the fight against AIDS have suggested that Thabo Mbeki, the former president of South Africa, committed genocide through his absence from the fight against the illness in his country throughout his two terms.
One hundred and eleven years after Brazil abolished slavery, the number of workers deprived of their freedom is still huge. They raise cattle, produce charcoal, sugar cane or timber. Some of them, most undocumented Bolivians, work in basements of small apparel factories in São Paulo and other metropolis.
On November 7, 2009 a few friends and I had an opportunity to take a look inside a Brazilian jail outside the city of Rio de Janeiro. We were able to take some amateur footage of our experience on video (see link below). It's no surprise, of course, that the typical Brazilian jail lacks some of the functionality of those in North America or Europe, but our experience that day was quite shocking.
Depletion of the Amazon Rainforest is not a new concern facing environmentalists, biologists, ecologists, and a growing number of the Amazonian indigenous peoples. For decades they have feared for the fate of the world's most biologically diverse and species-rich hothouse.
Geisy Arruda made history this week in Brazil, but for all the wrong reasons. What began as a poorly planned fashion statement has become a worldwide tale. Geisy decided to wear a pink mini-dress to her private college in São Paulo state, and after that, all hell broke loose.
The push of vigilante groups in Rio de Janeiro's favelas (shantytowns) in the last three years is the most important and alarming information of the just-released study by the Rio de Janeiro University's Violence Research Center (Nupev-Uerj).
A dispute over drug trafficking territory in Rio de Janeiro has intensified lately, leaving in its wake unprecedented acts of violence, such as the downing of a police helicopter in the northern zone of the city on October 17. Three policemen died and another two were injured. This event has drawn the attention of the international media, who are raising the issue of public security for the 2016 Olympics to be held in Rio.
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The small, coastal town of Condé is located just a twenty minute's drive from João Pessoa, the capital of Paraíba. The Northeast of Brazil has historically been a place of encounter and mixing between peoples. For millenia groups of indigenous people fished, farmed, migrated and sometimes fought along this large, fertile area. 
The Brazilian diplo-MÁ-cia (bad diplomacy) carries on its accelerated course towards the non-acknowledgment of human rights, although sometimes it takes pleasure in saying that it does precisely the opposite. The visit of Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is another example of a diplomatic omission that verges on hypocrisy. 
On July 4, 2006, representatives of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay met in Caracas to sign the protocol for the entrance of Venezuela into the Southern Common Market (Mercosur). After two and a half years, the protocol was approved by the legislative bodies of Argentina and Uruguay, and as of now it may be only days away from being ratified by the continent's economic megalith, Brazil. 
Some sectors of the fight against AIDS have suggested that Thabo Mbeki, the former president of South Africa, committed genocide through his absence from the fight against the illness in his country throughout his two terms. 
One hundred and eleven years after Brazil abolished slavery, the number of workers deprived of their freedom is still huge. They raise cattle, produce charcoal, sugar cane or timber. Some of them, most undocumented Bolivians, work in basements of small apparel factories in São Paulo and other metropolis. 
On November 7, 2009 a few friends and I had an opportunity to take a look inside a Brazilian jail outside the city of Rio de Janeiro. We were able to take some amateur footage of our experience on video (see link below). It's no surprise, of course, that the typical Brazilian jail lacks some of the functionality of those in North America or Europe, but our experience that day was quite shocking. 
Depletion of the Amazon Rainforest is not a new concern facing environmentalists, biologists, ecologists, and a growing number of the Amazonian indigenous peoples. For decades they have feared for the fate of the world's most biologically diverse and species-rich hothouse. 
Geisy Arruda made history this week in Brazil, but for all the wrong reasons. What began as a poorly planned fashion statement has become a worldwide tale. Geisy decided to wear a pink mini-dress to her private college in São Paulo state, and after that, all hell broke loose. 
The push of vigilante groups in Rio de Janeiro's favelas (shantytowns) in the last three years is the most important and alarming information of the just-released study by the Rio de Janeiro University's Violence Research Center (Nupev-Uerj). 
A dispute over drug trafficking territory in Rio de Janeiro has intensified lately, leaving in its wake unprecedented acts of violence, such as the downing of a police helicopter in the northern zone of the city on October 17. Three policemen died and another two were injured. This event has drawn the attention of the international media, who are raising the issue of public security for the 2016 Olympics to be held in Rio.
written by Augustus, November 02, 2009
Red is the color of PT (Brazilian Workers party), which is unquestionably a completely fake, populist, opportunistic, two-faced, demagogue and EXTREMELY corrupt political organization – which would better be described a “venomous pit of vipers”... Although credit should be given to the semi-illiterate Brazilian president for not following his advisors and corrupt party leaders to attempt amending the Brazilian Constitution in order to emulate the Venezuelan dictator (and his GANG –corja-- of equality totalitarian puppets in Bolivia, Ecuador & Nicaragua), I fear that the socialist PT is beginning to exhibit, display its true colors, and to increasingly allow its hidden agenda to emerge from obscurity: the suppression of Liberty and the Oppression of Brazilian western-oriented society!
As suggested in this editorial, the Brazilians socialists are getting increasing impatient with any kind of opposition, and anxious to emulate the SORDID, DIRTY, DISGUSTING example of the obnoxious Venezuelan Dictator; in fact,