Posted on 05/21/2004 6:57:58 AM PDT by Pikamax
Edited on 07/19/2004 2:14:13 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Brazil's Lula, Losing Support at Home, Seeks Recovery in China May 21 (Bloomberg) -- Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is taking more than 400 executives to China to help spur exports, seeking to pull South America's largest country out of its worst recession in 11 years.
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Lula has become a "moderate" in the eyes of his party leaders. I predict that during the next elections, the country will move more towards the center, as the people become disillusioned with the theatrics of the of the socialist/communist party.
This is brilliant!
In a calculated effort to stimulate Brazil's economy through the removal of barriers to business, Lula has taken 400 of the country's top bureaucrats to China!
Did they mention if he plans to ever let them come back?
Well you know what they say down there: "Brazil will always be the country of the future."
And here I thought what they said was, "ordem e progresso."
Or was it, "que sera, sera?"
Brazil has always been "about to be great."
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