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Marina leaps ahead in presidential debate; wants brightest minds to join her government
A surging Marina Silva took Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff to task in an election debate Tuesday night when she touted her government's achievements in improving social conditions and defending wages in the midst of global economic crisis. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rules“Silva is seen as an anti-establishment figure who could restore ethical principles to Brazilian politics and she appeals to voters who are disenchanted with Brazil's ”
Aug 28th, 2014 - 08:48 am - Link - Report abuse 0Another communist she is quoting all the codes for more socialism and communist ideology poor brazil is heading toward and abyss that will never get out.
I think she will be a pragmatist - as her meeting with the S.P. industrial community shows.
Aug 28th, 2014 - 09:32 am - Link - Report abuse 0The one thing she will fight against is coalition and selling her political soul to the establishment devils.
There is hope yet.
There is hope ... yet ..
My vote would go to Neves - especially if he could achieve the same anti-coalition, anti-establishment, anti-corruption ends.
But in the end he succeeds by being 'pro' and good at 'pro'.
Personally, I would trust him further than I could throw him.
Give me almost anybody rather than the P.T. coalitions.
“A fervent evangelical Christian, she will also draw votes from this growing religious constituency”. What a horrifying prospect. Isn't a Brazilian politician going to have problems with Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour and Thou shalt not covet? What about Honour thy father and thy mother if you can tell the difference? At least it should put an end to Brazil's attempts to get a permanent Security Council seat. How, as a fervent Christian, could she lie enough to justify such a thing? Still, perhaps she could spend a few years telling the truth. Where CFK's stashed her money! How many lies “Pepe” has told! All about Correa and Morales. Loads of ICC cases.
Aug 28th, 2014 - 12:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0She looks a bit crazy to me, she should fit in well down there.
Aug 28th, 2014 - 01:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I can not believe she is a viable way to end the political thugs. When she was Minister of the Environment the construction of Belo Monte was unauthorized, the permissions of exploitation in the Pre-Salt Basin were not granted, the issue of trans-genetic seeds froze, the Santo Antônio and Girau hydroelectric plants were delayed.
Aug 28th, 2014 - 02:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0With all this I still would vote for her if I had the conviction that Brazilian policy would be restored by the end of patronage and impunity.
Maybe I vote for Dilma. I do not want to have doubts about the future of my beloved country.
5 Brassiere
Aug 28th, 2014 - 02:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Maybe I vote for Dilma. I do not want to have doubts about the future of my beloved country.”
There is no doubt what will happen to your country if Dilma is back in.
Silva is an Argentine frontwoman for the Chicago School of economics that ruined Chile's economy by going all-US & Britain on the people thru rule by the City of London and Wall Street bankers, which South America has done a good job of late keeping their influence out as much as they possibly can. She is as much a Communist as the poster who made that up is. If anything, she's just another corporatist. The “experts” she met with as recounted in the article, to whom she wants to hand over Argentinian policy-making, are precisely of that evil ilk. Dilma is lucky to have such a fraud to run against. Watch her wave the flag and declare Silva in league with the Norte Americanos and even worse, the BRITS, which means shit in Argentine argot.
Aug 28th, 2014 - 03:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0does anyone understand NativeAngeleno's post ?
Aug 28th, 2014 - 08:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“The colorful Brazil that President Dilma has described only exists in the cinema” said (Marina) Silva”.....she summed it up pretty accurately.
Aug 28th, 2014 - 09:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0While my prefernce is Aécio, if he doesn't get to the 2nd round, Marina is the next option. Dilma ? never ! Brazil won't survive another 4 years of PT shit.
@5 Brazzo, I'm surprised that you, from being a rabid PeTista, have actually admitted you are now not so sure about your darling Dilma...a doubt that must be going through many PeTista's heads.
This link helps explain how the PT party has their heads so far up their backsides, their poop don't stink, they have no understanding of the reality....
Aug 28th, 2014 - 10:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/08/28/us-brazil-election-economy-idUSKBN0GS2IL20140828
@10 Tik Tok, the link you posted, in which Mantega has the nerve to say that an opposition victory could wreck the economy, is first, a load of crap. Whatever this dimwit says is a lie, he's just trying to create panic among the not-so-well informed. Second, quote “The comments by Guido Mantega, which the opposition and some analysts criticized as unbecoming of a sitting finance minister” unquote, should be sufficient for the opposition to demand he retract his words....after all, wasn't it only one month ago that a Santander bank executive got the boot for stating the obvious, that the stock exchange went down with the prospect of Dilma's victory , and went up with the prospect of Dilma's defeat ? and the bank even had to apologise to fatty Dilma ? Mantega should be held to the same accountability. Get sacked, and then apologise.
Aug 29th, 2014 - 01:21 am - Link - Report abuse 0So the opposition will cause a recession in Brazil?
Aug 29th, 2014 - 05:18 am - Link - Report abuse 0And yet Brazil is already in recession!
Silva can take 'millions' of votes from the 'people of colour', especially in the North East and from those who have migrated to the cities. The are more types of empathy than politics.
Aug 29th, 2014 - 08:08 am - Link - Report abuse 0A national median age of
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