Environmentalist Marina presidential candidate but with a pro-agribusiness in the ticket

Thursday, August 21st 2014 - 06:46 UTC

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Environmentalist Marina Silva officially has launched a bid for president, upending Brazil's October 5 elections and threatening the ruling Workers' Party's 12-year hold on power. So far a vice-presidential candidate for the Brazilian Socialist Party, Marina accepted the nomination to top the ticket after candidate Eduardo Campos, a former governor and rising political star, was killed in a plane crash last week. Read full article

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Brasileiro
If Brazil exports 256 billion dollars annually, 44% is 113 billion dollars.

I do not know how the United States exports in agribusiness, but I find it hard that they exceed this value.
Aug 21st, 2014 - 10:28 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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ChrisR
Silva might be an ignorant peasant but she isn't stupid: she has THE GOD VOTE!

That trumps even the commie vote in the RCC stronghold of Brazil.

Global warming / climate change AND “God”. If she gets in they will all be fucked, well and truly.

Can't wait, they deserve her. I just pity the people with a brain in this fourth rate country it must be an absolute nightmare.
Aug 21st, 2014 - 12:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Captain Poppy
google it....in 2012 it was 141 billion. We are talking a 16 trillion dollar economy. So swallow that. Brazil is a flea in comparison.

http://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/state-export-data.aspx#.U_XqhvldVu0
Aug 21st, 2014 - 12:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Jack Bauer
@3, Captain, you're wasting your time on Brazzo.....what does the USA's agricultural exports (US$ 141 billion in 2013) have to do with the fact that Marina is now the official presidential candidate for her party ?? the numbnuts says he finds it hard “that they exceed this value” ....but to me, he finds it hard to think, and to see the truth, even when it's staring him in the face. .
Aug 21st, 2014 - 11:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Escoses Doido
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Yes, it used to bother me before I had the lobotomy.....
Aug 23rd, 2014 - 03:40 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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ChrisR
@ 5 Escoses Doido

I bet it did. :o)
Aug 23rd, 2014 - 05:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Captain Poppy
Jack maybe because he is in need of an headuphisassectomy.
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cornelius
No hope for Brazil, “Brazil will turn like Argentina and Argentina like Venezuela ”Bolivarian countries they are as stupid as they come” No Food, No Service, No Power, and more crime of crime.
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