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Meet Brazil’s New PresidentPosted on Jan 1, 2011
Brazil’s first female president has finally been sworn into office. Dilma Rousseff, a protégé of former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, promised to protect the most vulnerable of Brazilian society in her inaugural speech Saturday. —JCL
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By samosamo, January 2, 2011 at 5:09 pm Link to this comment
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The american ‘shock doctrine’ in South America
hopefully will keep Dilma Rousseff wary of u.s.
hegemony and the imf, world bank, wto, council
of foreign relations and the trilateral commission
at bay. If she doesn’t, I guess the previous
incursions of these american made products were
not instructive enough in the devastation they
caused.
If fact, Allende in Chile, replaced by pinochet, was
Report thisone of kissassingers finest diplomatic moves of
destroying a democratically elected president of a
foreign country. Argentina also enjoyed some of
american ‘democracy’ being shoved down their
throats.
By Conden, January 1, 2011 at 8:35 pm Link to this comment
Lula took a strong rightward turn in his presidency; I doubt his appointed successor is going to do any different, regardless of identity politics.
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