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Lula, the Ugliest Face of “the Brazilian Way of Doing Things”
Last Days Watchman ^
| Julio Severo
Posted on 03/15/2016 5:26:51 PM PDT by juliosevero
Lula, the Ugliest Face of the Brazilian Way of Doing Things
By Julio Severo
Former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is, with his socialist Workers Party, facing a multitude of scandals of corruption.
The acts of corruption were measures to get certain results, especially financial, in spite of the laws. This is the heart of the jeitinho brasileiro, which is a process used to reach something desired in spite of contrary determinations (laws, orders, rules etc.).
Brazilians face a confusing and inefficient bureaucracy, which affects everybody: rich and poor. The rich use their huge power and influence to bypass difficulties while other people have their own way to practice their jeitinho brasileiro: traveling with more luggage than it is allowed, parking in spots for disabled people, forging documents of a businessperson to get a U.S. visa when he is not a businessperson, etc.
In legal and political matters, if a Brazilian wants something that is not permitted, he will try to figure out a loophole until he finds an alternative way.
Since the colonial period, everything in Brazil has been done through a nasty bureaucracy. So people have always to find alternate ways in order to survive and get things, whether good or not, done. Both left-wingers and right-wingers suffer this malady in Brazil, but only the former present its ugliest form.
These alternate ways are the jeitinho brasileiro. In other nations, this is called trickery or corruption. In Brazil, it is called jeitinho brasileiro, which can be translated to the crafty Brazilian way of doing things.
In a smaller scale, these alternate ways produce small corruptions and trickeries. In a greater scale, they produce a Lula, who is being prosecuted for big trickeries and corruption.
The Brazilian people protest and slam the massive use of the jeitinho brasileiro by politicians and businesspersons, but they do not give up their own crafty Brazilian way of doing things. They do not like it in others, but they tolerate it in themselves. It is a national vice as popular as samba, football and Carnival. It is an ugly face, not only of a former Brazilian president, but also of a people.
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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Politics; Reference; Religion
KEYWORDS: brazil; jeitinhobrasileiro; lula
To: juliosevero
Well, that’s an end to all the new leftists in South America.
At the time, a decade ago, it was quite a hyped thing, Chavez, Lula, Kirchner, Evo Morales - once the wave of the future, all now failures.
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posted on
03/15/2016 5:32:23 PM PDT
by
buwaya
To: juliosevero
Soon to arrive here should Bernie win.
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posted on
03/15/2016 5:38:13 PM PDT
by
SkyDancer
("Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
To: juliosevero
BUT it’ll work HERE; it just hasn’t been TRIED yet...by the ‘right’ people /s
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posted on
03/15/2016 5:49:00 PM PDT
by
i_robot73
("A man chooses. A slave obeys." - Andrew Ryan)
To: juliosevero
“This is the heart of the jeitinho brasileiro, which is a process used to reach something desired in spite of contrary determinations (laws, orders, rules etc.).”
Jihad Brazil style ?
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posted on
03/15/2016 5:56:17 PM PDT
by
UCANSEE2
(Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
To: i_robot73
It actually has been tried here. That is what the Dems and BO have been doing for years.
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posted on
03/15/2016 6:39:19 PM PDT
by
robert14
(cng)
To: robert14
“It actually has been tried here...”
has BEEN tried? Correct phrase *is CURRENTLY engaged*
Over 100yrs to be exact (SS, income tax, gun/drag ‘laws’, ‘public’ education..).
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I STILL find it amazing that the US would fight two ‘World Wars’, and vote/re-elect a Socialist. So, yes, I DO blame the ‘greatest-generation’ (and prior). I blame LESS the 60’s/counter-culture since their upbringing failed to instill those values/ideals of Liberty/Freedom/Independence.
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posted on
03/16/2016 5:35:05 AM PDT
by
i_robot73
("A man chooses. A slave obeys." - Andrew Ryan)
To: juliosevero
I’ve been to Brazil...twice.To describe it as a Third World cesspool would be an insult to cesspools.To me “Lula” is the *perfect* face of such a country.
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