MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
“Sustainability party” is born in Brazil headed by tireless fighter for Amazon rainforest protection
Former Brazilian environment minister and presidential candidate Marina Silva has launched a new political party with an eye on next year’s presidential elections. The new party is called “Sustainability Network.” It was launched in Brasilia at a meeting of politicians, congressmen and other Silva supporters. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesThis lady seems to talk a lot of sense. I say go for it Marina
Feb 20th, 2013 - 01:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Yep, she did well in the last election. I think she will do well in the next one also.
Feb 20th, 2013 - 02:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Big problem is that she may be fine but does she know how to pick her subordinates in government and lead the country?
Feb 20th, 2013 - 02:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0She sucks....
Feb 20th, 2013 - 05:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Best wishes, Marina
Feb 20th, 2013 - 06:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Bamf Why? You in Paraguay are much closer to Brazil than I am. Can you expand please?
Feb 20th, 2013 - 06:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0May the force be with you,
Feb 20th, 2013 - 07:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0and with time and luck, you may well see your dreams come true,
an honest brazil, nice brazil , happy brazil, and no CFK.
well done.
Not sure she has the balls to manage Brasil's 'environment ' and the curruption and crime that remains endemic.
Feb 20th, 2013 - 08:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Brasil needs trading structures, research, development, indigenous high-tech industries, infrastructure and education, education, education.
Oil, gas, hydroelectrics and nuclear will be the next president's energy agenda. Can she move her desired position to one which recognises the strange energy-bedfellows that she would have to embrace?
Silva may reduce the rate of forest destruction but can she take on the 'coronels', the ranchers, the agrocompanies, the loggers, the miners with the expectation that they will even compromise with her leadership.
I think not - though it pains me to say it.
Dilma is developing the track-record and the balls.
She may drag Brasil, kicking and screaming, into a more ethical world. Until she fails or is found to be 'not what she presently professes to be', I will support her rather than Marina.
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Feb 20th, 2013 - 08:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Comment removed by the editor.
Feb 20th, 2013 - 08:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0One of the founding principles of Brazil's newly found economic “miracle” is the destruction of the rain forest”. Very unlikely that she will get in the way of that continuing. I fear for her TBH.
Feb 20th, 2013 - 08:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0[ 9 ]
Feb 20th, 2013 - 09:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0sussy again you have been reported for using other peoples I.D.
your ignorence is as childish as your inteligence.
@12 Sussie has no intelligence or not more than an amoeba. Mebbe thats insulting an amoeba
Feb 20th, 2013 - 09:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0its a sham mercopress allows this to happen.
Feb 20th, 2013 - 09:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Briton Of course its a shame. Obvouslymeroprees editorial staff are a bit limited at times. Just stand back and laugh at its puny efforts. Anyone with a screen name that contains an o is likely to be attacked to confuse the issue. It hasnt done it to me yet as it said sometime ago that it didnt read my posts (Thank God), though I did get a reply addressed to Redpiss a while back
Feb 20th, 2013 - 09:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0redpoll
Feb 20th, 2013 - 10:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0i agree,
perhaps susy will just fade away.lol.
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Feb 21st, 2013 - 02:11 am - Link - Report abuse 0Well Mario I hope you are not. Its a dirty trick We may not agree with each other but I hope we have enough honesty to stick to our original screen names
Feb 21st, 2013 - 02:19 am - Link - Report abuse 0#6 Redpoll - Sra. Silva is what I like to call an environmentalist that utilizes force to achieve her goals. Instead of simply encouraging other environmentalists to purchase up large portions of the Amazon Rain Forest, she prefers to use force to either decide what people may or may not do with their own property or she simply wants to take it away from them through the use of the government. To me that is not good; it removes any property rights that Brazilians have.
Feb 21st, 2013 - 12:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Other than that she prefers the use of force to achieve all of her other goals, such as fighting poverty. Instead of creating a business friendly environment, she prefers to use of force to redistribute wealth to the poor. Yet this only makes the poor dependent on the government and at the same time kills off any incentive for people to work or business to create new jobs.
So I don't think she would be any good for the country. She may be popular with the people, but the role of the President isn't to be popular, but to lead a country (note the word “lead” and not “rule”). In any good leader, be it a general of an army or the manager of a business, one must make difficult decisions that are NOT popular; Sra. Silva doesn't have this ability. She is a populist such as Lula, CFK, Hugo, Correa, Obama, etc.
19 BAMF Paraguay
Feb 21st, 2013 - 02:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Excellent post, I particularly like the ”(note the word “lead” and not “rule”)” bit.
Bamf Thank you for your incisive analysis. While I dont necessarily agree with all your conclusions, its definitely food for thought
Feb 21st, 2013 - 03:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0she is black.fullstop
Feb 24th, 2013 - 01:26 am - Link - Report abuse 0http://en.mercopress.com/2013/02/20/sustainability-party-is-born-in-brazil-headed-by-tireless-fighter-for-amazon-rainforest-protection#comment219830: In reality the first role of any president is to get elected. And to get elected a candidate needs to win an absolute majority of votes. So, to that extent, the role of a president is to be popular.
Feb 24th, 2013 - 01:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0But beyond that point a popular president can do much more than an unpopular one.
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