Brazil Showed the World How Nations Should Solve Problems, Says Lula
Written by Nelson Motta
Friday, 05 May 2006
Bolivia is not going to reduce gas exports to Brazil, declared Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, following his meeting Thursday, May 4, with the president of Bolivia, Evo Morales, and two other South American heads of state: Néstor Kirchner, of Argentina, and Hugo Chávez, of Venezuela.
As for the price of the gas exported to Brazil, Lula affirmed that it would be decided on "in the most democratic manner possible.... Brazil and Bolivia are going to discuss their problems bilaterally."
Lula said that the meeting served to show the world how nations should resolve their problems.
"I believe we have given the world a good example of how to reach an understanding through dialogue. And we have shown investors in both countries [Brazil and Bolivia] that we do not wish to continue to be a poor continent eternally," said Lula.
You problem solver you Lula. Goddam Brazil is lucky to have you . . .
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sorry to repeat the same over and over written by Guest,
May 05, 2006
This guest should take a look to its own contry. The Mighty America (USA).
They are producing 5.4 m barrels oil per day and importing more than 15 m barrels per day.
So everyone expects Bush to negotiate prices, but whatt does he do???? Good guess, putting pressure over and over!!!
Oil prices??!!!! Heading to $100 per barrel. USA deficits will therefore break more and more records.
So your conclusion is ringht about Lula!!! Problem solber!!!
The USA could be heading to a even more powerful country, but they are not. Total debt amouting to 44 trilliart. Government debt over 9 trilliart and soaring by the minute!!!!
Think before saying something in this site dear guests.
Brazil is not a perfect country and it won't never be it. But your countries are nott that perfect either.
So think before stating nonsense on this site and put your name under your post.
Regards, Leizo
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Bush DOESNT..... written by Guest,
May 05, 2006
negoatiate oil prices !
Sorry !
Prices are the market prices.
Brazil never wants to pay the market price but always expect to sell their own goods at ABOVE their msarket price.
Brazilian way of saying : we are for FAIR trade !
What a joke.
You are almost energy self sufficient you proclaim to the world and suddenly you have an import problem ! Strange isnt it ?
You are energy self sufficient but your gasoline price is HIGHER than in the USA. Strange isnt it ?
Where do the difference GO ?
As to the USA. debts, you are not wrong except in the total numbers, but guess who hold 50 % of the U.S. debts ?
Foreign central banks. Brazil is an example....although a very small one !
On the other hand please name one country in this world who is loaded with your own currency !!!!
Did you read what is going on in Brazilian agriculture ? Wellll...welll....except sugar cane producers ....all farmers are struggling ! Including the large ones ! Cant you see that that $ 100 oil will not effect anyone except YOU developing countries ? Oil prices affect your agriculture, since agriculture is Heavily energy hungry. What about transportation costs, with shitty Brazilian roads and the 100's of kms of them...to port ?
Therefore the 100 $ oil will never affect us as much as it will affect other less wealthy countries.
And even if it does affect, guess what will happen ? The USA will have a slowdown or a recession, meaning they will reduce their trade deficits. And from where do the USA have their trade deficits ? Mostly from developing countries such as China AND.....Brazil !!!
So yes, lets put the barrel of oil at $ 100.- or even 200 if you prefer. Everyone in this world will have to pay the same price anyway !
The difference is simply that less wealthy countries than the US/EU or Japan...will be the least able to pay for it !
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... written by Guest,
May 06, 2006
When Lula truly takes a stand against what really makes his country laughable on a world-level, and that's corruption, then he may deserve a little respect. But when dozens of self-appointed ministers, aides, etc. have had to "retire", without having to actually withstand legal charges and criminal trials since nearly 100% of the recommendations the commission designed to investigate these crimes have fallen on deaf ears. They just to want to hear it, and especially put anyone in jail for it.
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... written by Guest,
May 06, 2006
Brazil is not the one that needs to invade other contrys for oil
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Patriot / Expatriot written by Guest,
May 08, 2006
I think that you are all blinded by prejudices, leaning too far to the left or too far to the right. I disagree with many American and Brazillian policies but I am deeply proud of both and extremely optimistic about the future of both. Unfortunately, I believe that Bush and Lula are both incompetent to lead our great countries. Bush is incompetent for believing that he has the right to dictate world policy without the support of the world community, thus making his policies the least democratic known today and the American people are paying for his incompetence; in blood, money and negative world opinion. Lula is incompetent and spineless for not challenging Bolivia for breaking pre-existing contracts that will hurt the economic well-being of Brazil. It is his primary responsability to protect the interests of Brazil, not Bolivia. His socialist ideals and partnerships with untrustworthy leaders such as Castro and Chavez will not help Brazil or any other country in South America acheive first world status. He's a fool to think that those "friends" will be there for him if he needs their help. Just this year he forgave Bolivia's debt to Brazil and look what it got him. It doesn't seem that Lula has learned his lesson yet and the Brazilian people will ultimately pay for his political education.
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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.