[mjolnir]

Hey, off topic a bit, but what do you think the chances of Lula losing to Alckmin are given the corruption scandal in Brazil?

Can this Daniela Cicarelli making-love-in-the-sea video phenomenon actually affect the election by distracting Brazilians from the scandal? My impression is that it has, superceding it as "the big story".

My impression is that Alckmin would be much more forceful in fighting the Chavez aims for South America, but maybe Lula has learned that the United States really is a better friend than Chavez.

Back to the topic, thanks again for translating and posting! Rosales may not be a conservative, but he's plainly light years upon light years better than the alternative... although I wonder how much he feels like he has to cast what conservative aspects of his program it does possess in populist, even leftist terms in order to sell them to the populace.

[StJacques]

I think Lula, at over 48% of the vote the last I heard, is pretty much a shoe-in, unless another corruption scandal breaks between now and election day.