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The Brazilian president spent the end of 2003 in the Middle East on a journey that Veja magazine called “Lula’s tour of dictatorships.” Presidential aides called his itinerary – which included several dictatorships and even regimes suspected of supporting terrorism – “historic.” Moreover, it represented an “audacious policy” that provided an “alternative” to the American agenda. Consistent with the crafty attitudes that have characterized the Lula da Silva administration, Brazilian foreign policymakers said the primary purpose of the trip was to develop trade relations. However, after only a few days, several publications saw through this claim and said the trip’s...

While Washington’s attention is focused on the Middle East, communism and communist terrorism are threatening America's security in Latin America, where another Axis of Evil is spreading its tentacles throughout the region. Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is getting credit from the Internatinal Monetary Fund and Wall Street's useful idiots for following the orthodox economic policies of former president Fernando Cardoso while plunging his nation into communism and allying himself with Fidel Castro and Castro's puppet in Venezuela, Hugo Chavez. So radical is the regime under Lula that the Rio de Janeiro city council recently declared President Bush...