Posted on 10/26/2014 7:39:11 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Brazil's leftist President Dilma Rousseff narrowly won re-election on Sunday after convincing voters that her party's strong record of reducing poverty over the last 12 years was more important than a recent economic slump.
After one of the closest, most divisive campaigns in Brazil in decades, Rousseff won 51.6 percent of votes in a runoff against centrist opposition leader Aecio Neves, who won 48.4 percent with more than 99 percent of the votes tallied.
At a hotel in Brasilia where Rousseff was due to speak, party supporters waved red flags and jumped up and down, screaming in celebration.
In Sao Paulo, a stronghold of Neves' Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB), a more subdued mood was punctuated by some government supporters honking horns and screaming with joy.
Voting was peaceful and Brazil's robust democracy is free of the political violence that mars some other countries in Latin America.
Yet, at a time when the economy is facing deep challenges, Ideli Salvatti, one of Rousseff's top ministers, said the government would seek to lead "a national reconciliation process given how tight the result was."
"We have to calm our hearts down first and then get back to work tomorrow," she told reporters.
The result means another four years in power for the Workers' Party
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>>Brazil’s leftist President Dilma Rousseff narrowly won re-election on Sunday after convincing voters that her party’s strong record of reducing poverty over the last 12 years was more important than a recent economic slump.
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Now that oil is down, they can’t continue to cover the costs — Brazil will be Venezuela writ large.
That is the end of Brazil.
“robust democracy” sounds more like a bust
Brazil is a net importer of oil.
345k barrels per day. Although projections are they will be a larger and larger net exporter in the near future.
But for now low prices are a net good for Brazil’s budget although a small one.
Same policies of the last 12 years.
With falling prices for Brazil’s soy,iron ore,and lumber means a stagnant economy. Such is the fate for countries that depend on exporting raw materials.
>>Brazil is a net importer of oil.
345k barrels per day. Although projections are they will be a larger and larger net exporter in the near future.
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I always thought of them as an oil producer.
But thanks for the correction of my misunderstanding.
>>With falling prices for Brazil’s soy,iron ore,and lumber means a stagnant economy. Such is the fate for countries that depend on exporting raw materials.<<
There is the rub, yes? And when oil falls, so do other raw materials since oik is needed in their production. So I wasn’t wrong, exactly (throw me rope, eh? LOL)
George Soros does business in Brazil so I suspect voter fraud.
Remember all the massive protests leading up to the World Cup in Brazil this summer and how Rousseff was booed every time she showed up at a match. She and her ilk decided to blow tens of billions hosting the World Cup and the next Olympics when tens of millions of people lack basic housing and utilies. Brazil had a chance to grow up but as always they blew it; “Brazil is the country of the future — and always will be”.
Rousseff was Chief of Staff for Brazil’s previous socialist president Lula da Silva. This election will mean sixteen straight years of turning Brazil into a socialist hell hole.
Indeed, isn’t South America tired of kleptocrat regimes?
You can be sure fraud is the margin.
~That is the end of Brazil.~
Despite his slogans, her adversary Neves is de-facto Communist too. Show me a South American politician who aren’t Communist and still holds office.
And it seems like the trend is moving North to consume both Americas proper.
You got it! Choosing between Brazil’s Workers’ Party and Social Democrats is pretty much like Bernie Sanders vs Barack 0bama.
> At a hotel in Brasilia where Rousseff was due to speak, party supporters waved red flags and jumped up and down, screaming in celebration.
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