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Praise for piracy?
The Washington Times ^ | 5/9/05 | Ken Adelman

Posted on 05/09/2005 11:06:35 AM PDT by JZelle

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice spent her time in Brazil late last month lavishing all sorts of high praise on the country's leftist president during her Latin American tour to promote the administration's free trade agenda. Despite his strong communist bona fides, President Lula da Silva was clearly being feted by Miss Rice as a strategic ally to balance the antics of Hugo Chavez's oil-rich Venezuela. But Brazil presents the U.S. with a set of challenges -- commercially and geopolitically -- as serious as those posed by Venezuela or Cuba. Did Miss Rice miss the target?

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: adelman; brazil; castro; chavez; china; communists; india; intellectualproperty; lula; theft; trade
Maybe we can just ship some of our jobs to Brazil too.
1 posted on 05/09/2005 11:06:44 AM PDT by JZelle
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To: JZelle
Maybe we can just ship some of our jobs to Brazil too.

Yeah. Nothing like packing a carrier full of jobs in tiny boxes.


2 posted on 05/09/2005 11:09:40 AM PDT by rdb3 (To the world, you're one person. To one person, you may be the world.)
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