Ex Brazilian minister calls for treating Argentina gently, “not with a cannon ball”

Monday, May 30th 2011 - 06:05 UTC

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Former Brazilian Industry and Foreign Trade Minister Miguel Jorge decided to weight in on the bilateral trade conflict currently affecting Brazil and Argentina, and surprisingly came out in defence of the Cristina Fernández de Kirchner administration, comparing President Rousseff’s move to impose non-automatic licenses on car and auto-parts imports as “firing a cannon ball.” Read full article

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xbarilox
“and surprisingly came out in defence of the Cristina Fernández de Kirchner administration” surprisingly for you Mercopress.

In this video he explains it all better.
http://economia.estadao.com.br/videos/videos,m-jorge-brasil-e-a-china-da-argentina,139190,c,0.htm
May 30th, 2011 - 06:37 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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GeoffWard
We are just seeing the Brasilian political establishment, big beasts, and ex-big beasts gently and not so gently showing Rousseff that she will not get an unchallenged ride as she goes through her years of presidency.
They are saying to her “you are not one of us”; something Lula 'said' when he went to Brasilia last week to defend the currupt indefensible. He was saying “Rousseff, you are in my seat and I want it back soon”. . . . God help Brasil!
May 30th, 2011 - 01:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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briton
Yes treat them like babies, and you may well get rewarded,
just dont turn around, Argentina is big enough and ugly enough to stand on her own two feet, all she has to do, is do it herself,
then she dont need to be pampered, just a thought .
May 30th, 2011 - 06:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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