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Brazil coordinates efforts to guarantee supply of basic products to Venezuela
Following a request from Venezuela, the Brazilian government has acted alongside Brazilian companies to guarantee supply of basic products during Venezuela's economic crisis, according to diplomatic sources. The request was made by President Nicolas Maduro in at least two meetings with President Dilma Rousseff, in December 2014 and the day after Rousseff began her second term, on January 2. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesF.T. reports today that China is just beginning to 'turn the screw' on defaulters to its loans. $20 billion recent loans from China will be some loan to default on!
Mar 18th, 2015 - 10:47 am - Link - Report abuse 0Meanwhile, Brasil can keep supplying emergency toilet rolls.
According to Hepatia, and almost every other South American on here, autocratic governments in Latin America are always a foreign imposition and regime by whoever supports them.
Mar 18th, 2015 - 11:31 am - Link - Report abuse 0Ergo, Brazil has imposed this autocratic government on Venezuela.
They should be ashamed of themselves. Why Brazil is no better than the US when it imposed all those dictatorships on unwilling South Americans in the 50s or 60s or 70s.
Disgusting.
The “Legacy” of Chavez is really something to behold!
Mar 18th, 2015 - 11:34 am - Link - Report abuse 0Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
Maduro has gone from begging for loans in China to begging for food and toilet paper from the neighbour's house.
Mar 18th, 2015 - 12:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Oh The Shame of it all. The Shame!!
It's not a legitimate function of any government to guarantee anything, to anyone, even it's own citizens. Government is supposed to guarantee the rights of its citizens, not provide them with anything, and certainly not use the resources of its citizens to provide for other countries.
Mar 18th, 2015 - 12:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0If the Venezuelan government has destroyed the economic viability of its country (and freedom, along with it), through socialism and corruption, it's up to the people of Venezuela to replace their government, not for the government of Brazil to use the resources of their people to prop it up.
Thought Rousseff was going to demonstrate 'humility'? Supporting a looney dictatorship? Brazilian 'credibility' nosedives. Homicide capital of the world. Supporter of manic oppressive dictatorship. And Brazil thinks it should have a seat on the UN Security Council? How does it propose justifying having a seat on a toilet?
Mar 18th, 2015 - 01:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It's a sad, sad situation…. Sorry really is the hardest word.
Mar 18th, 2015 - 01:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Elaine
Mar 18th, 2015 - 04:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It's all part of the “/LATAM solidarity”. Everyone, including Brazil knows what happens next, but they'll be on record as steadfast friends to the Venezuelan people.
Politics and smoke!
Are the “basic products” to be supplied going to be paid for, or is this in effect an aid package, has anyone explained to Dima what the difference is?
Mar 18th, 2015 - 04:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Whew, I hope the Brazilian people don't allow mass loans to Venezuela to support this violent and failing regime.
Mar 18th, 2015 - 06:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Let Venezuela die a slow and painful death.
As it should be.
guarantee supply of basic products to Venezuela
Mar 18th, 2015 - 08:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Apparently dry bread and water is in ample supply and is on its way 1st class.
Presumably the Brazilian companies , all from the private sector - unlike the rat-infested Petrobras - will demand payment before shipment.....
Mar 18th, 2015 - 09:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Won't swear by it, 'cause you never know the mind of fatty Dilma, but I don't think that the BNDES will be so keen on lending more money to VZ, as this has been one of the complaints of the millions of people who are currently against the Government. Over the last 10 years, the BNDES has claimed it was unable to finance many private sector projects in Brazil, yet it had money to finance projects abroad - mainly in Latin America , in countries like VZ, Cuba, Ecuador, Uruguay, where Lula's and Dilma's friends are / were in power.... The projects were all handed over to Brazilian contractors , the same ones that are now up to necks necks in shit with the “Lava-Jato” investigation.
Mere coincidence ???
Please, please tell me if I am reading this correctly:
Mar 19th, 2015 - 04:02 am - Link - Report abuse 0Brazil TO GUARANTEE supply of basic products to
Venezuela.
Yep..
Mar 19th, 2015 - 11:08 am - Link - Report abuse 0@13. I understand your point. Could Brazil GUARANTEE crap in a shithouse?
Mar 19th, 2015 - 12:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Isn't Brazil closest to argieland in mentality? Do argies know what a shithouse is? Do they know how to find one? During 1982, it was disturbing to locate where argies thought it was appropriate to shit. Argieland must be five foot deep in shit. Imagine. Shit sliding north east. How long before Brasiliero is up to his chin in shit? Come on everyone, a few more tons!
I remember Long Droppers in India and New Zealand (albeit, a long time ago!).
Mar 19th, 2015 - 03:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0My partner reminds me that they were common in rural Belize when she was young.
Amazon pics gave me the 'pole over the open water' approach -
pollution lecturers (including me) taught ”Dilution is the Solution to Pollution',
but Paulistans are rapidly running out of dilutions.
It is hard not to point and laugh at this latest implosion of a socialist experiment that didn't come as a surprise to every non-marxist in the world. But this will hurt a lot of people guilty of nothing more than having defective politicians and living in Venezuela.
Mar 19th, 2015 - 08:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Not sure about shaking the hand of a man from a country without toilet paper..
Mar 19th, 2015 - 09:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You know, this is a very smart move by Brazil as it's obvious that Maduro will pay the chump change for TP, diapers, medicine and rice.
Mar 20th, 2015 - 12:52 am - Link - Report abuse 0During Allende, we would have happily received as well as paid anyone doing the same thing.
This is a stall strategy. Maduro needs now to pull a rabbit out of his hat: maybe invading Guiana..
Vnzla is sending Chavista emmissiaries to Argentina, Brazil and other LatAm countries with open-cheque books, (in order to directly purchase much needed goods), thus by-passing any notion of normal trade between businessess in the respective countries.
Mar 20th, 2015 - 11:05 am - Link - Report abuse 0No doubt many 'friendly' intermediatries will get handsomely rewarded for their co-operation. Another example of how chavismo is squandering vnzlan money.
Equally any food/goods purchased, at no-doubt inflated prices, will first arrive at the Army Bases, then the Govt. sponsored 'mercados', with none entering what is left of the free-market.
The usual out-come will result.
After looking after their families, the Army will ship truck-loads of goods to Colombia in order to enrich themselves whilst the govt. 'turns the blind-eye'.
Businesses have nothing to sell, therefore will close, increasing unemployment and poverty.
Poor, unemployed people will queue all day to purchase goods in the govt. 'mercados' then sell them at triple price to people that can not take the time off of work to queue. Thus the poor still have nothing because they must re-sell, (their 'wages' for queuing, but still have no job or security), and the working middle-class get poorer because they must pay triple-rate for goods in order to hold-down their jobs.
The chavistas care more for ideology than economic management.
Yet corrupt individual enrichment at high-levels is seen as acceptable, under the cloak of the 'revolution'*.
Such is the reality now. I wish there were more more posters here that could add to inside knowledge of VNZLA.
*also known as 'La Robolucion', no translation needed? Some 'chavistas' even say it with a wink...
Hopefully Brazil has bought into the Venezuelan mindset, if it is being so crassly capitalist as to expect payment it is likely to be very disappointed.
Mar 20th, 2015 - 11:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@ 21 RICO
Mar 21st, 2015 - 12:51 am - Link - Report abuse 0“as to expect payment”
Good luck with that!
Private companies will demand payment before shipment...
Mar 22nd, 2015 - 07:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Undoubtedly, but who from under this agreement.
Mar 23rd, 2015 - 01:20 am - Link - Report abuse 0Some people who are commenting they forget that the greatest atrocities in the world happened because of European countries. you are not examples at all. today who travels through it. know that beautiful image survives only in movies. even the United States are nothing showing in the movies. Here comes with the arrogance of criticizing other countries. you always affect the developed of several South American countries. for that I could approach the development of you, but that's changing. those who disagree with what I said. I don't know anything about world history (and his own country). you speak of the great firewall of china, but yourselves live in one. So who is more ignorant? ... as I said, the King of the world. GO TO ... HYDRAZIL
Mar 23rd, 2015 - 01:36 am - Link - Report abuse 0Juliano
Mar 23rd, 2015 - 07:07 am - Link - Report abuse 0I hope I am not misrepresenting your post #25.
you say 'the great atrocities of the world happened because of European countries,' but these atrocities have occurred throughout history - largely during earlier 'Chinese' dynasties, Mongols, Manchus and the Khan family.
Europe has had a very short dominant history - merely a century during recorded history.
The Great 'FireWalls' of China were built for a purpose also (3rd - 16th Century); a bit like the Berlin Wall - keeping people in as well as out.
But the 'Great FireWalls' were also transportation route for goods and materiel.
There is some shame in saying you know nothing about world history;
the greater shame comes from not your seeking answers from the internet.
'The Truth is out there'.
shame on the Americans speak of human rights. While they kill, steal and destroy the world. about the “truth”, she hardly ever turns up. because the big media will never fail. because sera her since I first fall if that happens ...
Mar 23rd, 2015 - 02:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@26 Geoff
Mar 24th, 2015 - 05:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Seems that Juliano is the real, original brasshole.....going back to his roots, confessedly ignorant and true to his sorry reality.
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