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Dilma with Lula da Silva's magic, re-elected in rich-poor divided Brazil
Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff supported by the decisive campaigning of Lula da Silva, narrowly won re-election on Sunday after convincing voters that the record on poverty reduction in the last twelve years was more important than a recent economic slump. Read full article
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Oct 27th, 2014 - 02:35 am - Link - Report abuse 0Is BRAZIL as populist as ARGENTINA and Venezuela?
Hopefully, they will turn away from Mercosur and join the PA.
@1 Yes. You could say even more because the PT is not nearly as powerful as the Peronists are in Argentina, and Brazil is much more of a democracy than Argentina, and Aecio was far more competent than any of our opposition, yet Dilma still won.
Oct 27th, 2014 - 02:52 am - Link - Report abuse 0Though I must admit I am in relief that Dilma won, Aecio would have implemented free trade policies that would be catastrophic for our country.
Our voting rules here state that the first candidate to reach 51 % wins.
Oct 27th, 2014 - 04:22 am - Link - Report abuse 0President Dilma managed that with a strong showing of the PT in the Nordeste.
Neves came in at 48.8 %, which by my calculation yesterday evening was 3,000,000 votes short.
Not enough for Neves, but clearly no mandate for Dilma either.
And the Petrobras -PT kickback saga is only beginning, and will lead to an examination of other government awarded contracts. I must, and will be addressed.
A disasterous result for Brazil and Uruguay!
Oct 27th, 2014 - 10:04 am - Link - Report abuse 0When do the lazy bastards vote for anybody half-competent or risk having to work for a living?
While both countries are mired in an illiterate and inumererate population it will always be the case.
Just as the PT and The Broad Fraud want it.
Excellent result for a greater integration of BRICS and South America.
Oct 27th, 2014 - 10:45 am - Link - Report abuse 0Disastrous results for the United States and its satellites countries in Europe, the so-called Western countries.
The ship was sinking under the current command. It might as well give way under those who caused the shit storm. There will be no one else for blame but to anti business machine....aka the commie socialists.
Oct 27th, 2014 - 12:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I wish the poor people of Brazil who voted her in all and everything they will get for placing her back in power.
Petrobas corruption scandels
sinking crude prices
dropping agricultural prices
rising inflation
lose of DFI
Lose of jops
But these things do not matter to Brazil's poor who voted for her, they do not work, they vote for handouts so they do not have to work to survive......freeloaders
No incumbent Brasilian president has ever lost an election. This holds for most of the region. High levels of corruption allow influences to become entrenched. Lula's legacy will be undone before this profound problem is resolved.
Oct 27th, 2014 - 12:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Here we have the clumsy but effective one term limit.
Some dimwits posting here seem to thinks the incompetent Dilma's re-election has an impact of the USA and other world market economies. The USA is a consumer economy.....we buy.........what are you going to do......stop exporting to the USA? It's the other way around.........We impact more economies than Brazil does. We slow....China slows and they stop buying grains and Brazil and Argentina goes to shit in one flush. Let's see how Brazil handles to oil glut, coupled with the dropping grain prices and decreasing Chinese demand for SA resources?
Oct 27th, 2014 - 12:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0FYI when you finally hear that popping sound brazzie.......that is you pulling your head from your ass.
Pity….
Oct 27th, 2014 - 03:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Ironically they all talk of integration. But the only thing on the horizon is a growing ideological, political and economical gap emerging between the Marxist and protectionists Mercosur Atlantic countries of South America and the Western Pacific Alliance.
Cry trolls cry! The world is changing in front of your eyes but you only look inwards, to your deep set of prejudices.
Oct 27th, 2014 - 07:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It's so simple. Until now, elections in Latin America were won by the rich and the powerful. Barring that, the military came to “restore order.”
Now that the poor have seen through, they are coming down to cast their votes, and all the oh so rich bastards can do is to work through the media they still dominate.
Welcome to a new, more independent Latin America.
Apparently there was an announcement at Galeão International Airport immediately after the results of the election.
Oct 27th, 2014 - 07:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0***Will all those waiting for the next Capital Flight to Absolutely Fucking Anywhere Else / Thank You. (CF24-AFAE/TH), please form an orderly queue using all available space within the terminal. Additional space can be found in the car-park. Due to the current weight restrictions please transfer as much $US by electronic means where possible. Additional measures are being effected to assist with the higher than usual demand with Capital Flight Transfers. Please remain calm.***
The world is always changing, just realize you have to work to live. No matter how hard you lazy asses down there try..........you cannot live on government handouts.
Oct 27th, 2014 - 07:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It will be interesting to see where the IBOV ends on Friday.
They will reap what they sow, good or bad...
Oct 27th, 2014 - 08:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The PT may think the cat's in the bag, but the fact that Dilma only 'just' won, by a rather narrow margin, and with the support of 30 million free-loaders (bolsa familia recipients), means that great majority of the people who are capable of thinking for themselves, voted against her. Anyway, no use crying over spilled milk, let's see if fat D keeps any of her promises regarding change, or whether she'll just drag Brazil further down the drain.
Oct 27th, 2014 - 08:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@ 14 Jack Bauer
Oct 27th, 2014 - 09:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You really don't know what is going to happen?
Come on!
http://en.mercopress.com/2014/10/27/dilma-with-lula-da-silva-s-magic-re-elected-in-rich-poor-divided-brazil#comment361274: Funny that. When the rich 'real middle class' oligarchs vote their interest they are “capable of thinking for themselves”. But when the poor vote their interest they are characterized as unintelligent and robots.
Oct 27th, 2014 - 11:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The truth is that in order to win Aecio need to convince Brazilian voters that he would not roll back the social programs introduced during the PT administrations which have worked so well. He failed to do this. I have no doubt that he will try harder next time.
well, it looks like the snide smug bastards are still here harping on faux scandals brought to you courtesy of VEJA et al. with evidence ONLY from the guilty trying to save their own asses by implicating those opposed to 500 more years or rape and plunder by the elite. And what about all the scandals of Aecio suppressed by that same media, that Dilma, in the final debate, correctly labeled the PSDB mouthpiece. She has promised to bring VEJA to court, and I sincerely hope she does. If the media would only get the whole story out, but as it is owned by the elite and parroted by the rest of the north American media with little fact checking, One can only imagine what its agenda will be from here forward. The elite are mightily pissed that other Brazilians are getting a piece of the pie the rich think they were born to inherit. Pity. And the USA does NOT like possible competition. The USA will not stop destabilization effort until BRICS is dead. Say what you will. I'm through listening to you bunch of yahoos who think you know everything. Don't bother to respond. What you say does not matter. I don't know what will happen in the next four years. But I wish Dilma well in trying to keep the nation on track to do more than “run with the big boys,” so to speak. Brazil has enormous potential, and it will never be realized with more of the same PSDB shenanigans clearly designed to keep the rich rich and the poor in the favelas. Have at it boys, I'm done here. PS: Ever notice that Aecio lost Minas TWICE. Those people know him well.
Oct 28th, 2014 - 01:23 am - Link - Report abuse 0I hope Neves brings Lula to court for slander, who's the thief, who's the nazi, who's the boozer. Start's with L
Oct 28th, 2014 - 04:08 am - Link - Report abuse 0Fbear PT running Brazil is just setting the country up for a harsher judgement day down the track.
Big deal Dilma lost in Rio Grande do Sul.
Poverty which no-one wants to see (Neves was to keep benefits) is unfortunate however the poor only concern themselves with the here and now and unfortunately can't see the unsustainablity in the continuance of the PT track, inflation 6.5%, growth none, and unemployment about to baloon, but if you are poor and receive your check or a government crony or unionist then OK at this point in time you are OK then vote the biggest corrupt party back in.
I think that this quote from a Tweet accurately sums up the situation concerning Brazil's 'real middle class' and, more generally, the election:
Oct 28th, 2014 - 04:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“#Brazil's rich upper middle class - and its media - so obsessed with itself that they often forget they're a small minority of voters.”
@15ChrisR
Oct 28th, 2014 - 06:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Sure I have a good idea of what's going to happen, but would like to think that there's still a slim chance that the PT will f*ck up big-time, and make even the idiots who voted for them, turn against them...
@16Hippy
Don't know why I waste my time on you....you never understand what's written...your wee brain is conditioned to understand only concepts of low-comprehension. Whether talking of Brazil, or any other country with a severe education deficit, it is notorious that the 'people' - here understand those that have not had the opportunity to study, or don't want to - are not particularly aware of what's going on around them, and are easily manipulated by unscrupulous politicians....which of course, is NOT what happens here, in good ole Brazil, where the infrastructure equals that of the most advanced nations in the world, where there is no corruption, nor crime, where the politicians only have the people's interests at heart - because they do not receive a salary , nor have any benefits, where government is small and efficient, where everybody studies and graduates from university, where everyone works and earns a good salary, where everyone retires on a pension equal to their salary.....It's no use just giving money to the poor, you need to educate them and encourage them to stand on their own feet.....just the opposite of what happens in most of the northeastern States...d'you see anything wrong with that ?
@17Fbear
you are so far from the mark it's pathetic....sure, I'd like to see the fat B take Editora Abril / Veja magazine to court...especially after all the shit the whistleblowers are feeding to the Federal Police, hits the fan. You are so naive, you actually believe that there is no corruption in the Federal government, and that Petrobrás was not stolen from and used politically by the PT..the fat B herself has admitted her 2010 campaign was financed with funds diverted from Petrobrás...wake up numbnuts !
“When the rich 'real middle class' oligarchs vote their interest they are “capable of thinking for themselves”.”
Oct 28th, 2014 - 07:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Who the fuck talks like that besides communists?
@ 21 Captain Poppy
Oct 28th, 2014 - 07:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Well she must have read a history book once or somebody told her about Hypatia, but she got the spelling wrong.
The ONLY women who lectured at the Great Library until the dead-headed, low class Christian males of the day decided (and encouraged by Cyril, the Archbishop of Alexandria) that they wouldn't stand for awoman pushing herself anymore, pulled her from her chariot, tore off her clothes and used abalone shells to flay her flesh to the bone: she was probably about 60 YO and it was AD 451. She was the daughter of the Keeper of the Great Library of Alexandia. Cyril was made a Saint, well he was doing Gods' work after all.
This incarnation is of course dead-headed herself but thinks otherwise.
I have no idea what she thinks she is, so HTF should we know.
Pathetically weak intellect, that's for sure.
@19 Hippy
Oct 28th, 2014 - 08:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“#Brazil's rich upper middle class - and its media - so obsessed with itself that they often forget they're a small minority of voters.”
Small minority of voters ??? you mad ?? 48.5% is no small minority....ah, but I forget, maths and general education weren't your strong points.
@21 Captain,
the uneducated idiots who expect something in return for nothing........
and I don't know if it will sink into Hippy's thick skull, but just for 'its' information....first, by definition, an oligarchy can hardly be considered 'middle-class', and second, the only region in Brazil where oligarchies still exist, is in the northeast....where the great majority of 'Bolsa Familia' recipients are concentrated, and where the PT and Dilma got most of their votes from......so, the oligarchy-dominated areas are the ones where Dilma gets most of her support ....who would have thought it ??? I would have thought that the PT, soooo concerned with the lot of the 'poor' , would have put an end to their misery.....of course not...the day those people get an education, that's the end of the PT.
Does she still insist she lives in the USA?
Oct 28th, 2014 - 08:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@24 Captain,
Oct 28th, 2014 - 09:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0If “it” lives in the US of A, must be a SNAP recipient....has a lot in common with the majority of the lazy buggers who receive the Bolsa Familia in Brazil.
Continuing my #23, for 'its' sake : today, the number of people receiving the bolsa familia is approximately 30 million (15 million families) and increasing day-by-day , and reports show that once they are 'in', the majority tend to stay 'in', or , in other words, ignore the purpose of the program, which is to help people temporarily, until they manage to get BACK ON THEIR FEET.....
With more and more people allowing themselves to become dependents of the State, the number of able-bodied and working age people actually working, is getting less and less...with this tendency, what's gonna happen when there are more people sponging off the system, than workers contributing to it ?? Answer that one Hippy !! I know you probably won't...or can't. With you, much the same thing.
Interesting background info, Jack - Thx!
Oct 28th, 2014 - 11:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0hehehe SNAP is the word overused. It should be used as a helping hand but “our” liberals give them away as a new way of life and give it to illegals as well.
Oct 29th, 2014 - 10:18 am - Link - Report abuse 0@27 Captain,
Oct 29th, 2014 - 07:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It's the liberals' way of throwing money at the poor, making them lazy, keeping them dependent, and ultimately, controlling them....and the socialists call it 'democracy'...what a bloody laugh !! It's the same story of how to catch a wild pig in the forest...when they realize they're screwed, it's too late.
I know very well.....SNAP is in my country. I've always believed in a helping hand up........but not a alternative to working.
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