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Brazilian Crisis Sparks Chances for Socialist Marina Silva in the 2018 Presidential Election
Last Days Watchman ^
| Julio Severo
Posted on 03/21/2016 6:16:40 PM PDT by juliosevero
Brazilian Crisis Sparks Chances for Socialist Marina Silva in the 2018 Presidential Election
By Julio Severo
In the midst of the deep political and financial crisis in Brazil, and massive protests against its leftist President Dilma Rousseff despised by most Brazilian population who, according to
Datafolha polls, wants her impeached for corruption and economic recession , a new political scenery and possibilities begin to emerge.
Former Brazilian presidential candidate Marina Silva is one of these possibilities. According to another poll by Datafolha, she is the preferred choice for most Brazilian constituents for the 2018 presidential election in Brazil. In second place is Aécio Neves, a social democrat. In the last place is Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, from the ruling socialist Workers Party.
Neves, who was also a presidential candidate in the last election, had
his candidacy built by Marxist strategist David Axelrod, a longtime top Obama adviser. Yet, he has received less support now than earlier, because his name is also involved in the political and financial scandals sweeping the socialist Brazilian government.
Even though not directly involved in these scandals, Marina Silva had her origins in the Workers Party and Liberation Theology, and today she is heavily involved in international environmentalist causes. She and other socialists have strategically supported the Brazilian protests. This is a far cry of some interpretations of the Brazilian political reality in some websites, which try to present the Brazilian anti-government protests as exclusively anti-Marxist.
The popular dissatisfaction has been provoked by economic constraints in the Brazilian workers pockets. The choice of Silva, Neves and even Lula among Brazilian constituents is an evidence that Marxism is a dominating force in the peoples aspirations.
The portrayal of the Brazilian reality in some websites as protests against Marxism is as mistaken as the portrayal of Silva as conservative. In fact, even the U.S. Christian media had portrayed her this way in the last election, perhaps because she is a Pentecostal from the Assemblies of God, and Pentecostals are generally conservative.
Her background is Catholic, in the Liberation Theology, never giving up this ideology. Even though the Assemblies of God is the largest evangelical denomination in Brazil, with over 15 million members, Marina Silva has not received its political support.
Most of her political support comes from liberal Catholics. Brazil is the largest Catholic nation in the world and its National Conference of Bishops of Brazil (NCBB) was
founded by Marxist Bishop Helder Camara, who is in process of sainthood in the Vatican.
The founding of the Workers Party is credited to prominent NCBB bishops.
Silva and her former party are children of this institution.
So if the Workers Party is removed by the popular impeachment of its president, NCBB bishops will manage to support a new president with its socialist convictions.
Marina Silvas political growth is a symptom that to come out from Workers Party pit, many Brazilians are willing to come into any other pit, whether socialist or otherwise, not minding that Silvas pit is not different from Workers Party pit.
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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Politics; Reference; Religion
KEYWORDS: brazil; datafolha; marinasilva
To: juliosevero
Gotta love how the article makes the Catholic Church the big, bad boogey-man behind Silva, when Silva herself is a pentecostalist.
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posted on
03/21/2016 6:30:48 PM PDT
by
dangus
To: juliosevero
Whats killing Brazil now is socialismo, what do the people want? Mose socialismo! Porque No!?
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posted on
03/21/2016 6:34:37 PM PDT
by
corkoman
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