MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Brazil's auto industry faces plummeting sales and widespread layoffs
Plummeting auto sales in Brazil amid the country's worst economic situation in a decade have battered the industry that makes up one-fourth of the country's industrial gross domestic product and has led to widespread layoffs and mandatory leaves. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesThank God my country is getting out of auto manufacturing. We can't compete with cheaper labour in other countries.
Jun 16th, 2015 - 06:50 am - Link - Report abuse 0After the initial economic dislocation the labour market and economy will recover. But thankfully my tax dollars aren't being wasted any longer.
The downturn in the auto industry in Brazil will bounce back but this recession is starting to really bite. These job losses and drop in consumer spending will continue to reverberate. Brazil isn't anywhere near turning the corner.
I told you this wasn't near over.
Jun 16th, 2015 - 10:32 am - Link - Report abuse 0Slow and grinding halt
and at some point the slum dwellers won't take the loss of their free $
1. This industry generates many jobs, new technologies and taxes. Australia has no automotive industry because their market is insignificant and his country is diverted from major trade routes. You're the only guy I know who is proud of what does not exist.
Jun 16th, 2015 - 10:53 am - Link - Report abuse 02. Soon the branches of GM and Ford will be bought by Brazilian business, this is the only way to survive in this business here in Brazil. In view of the overall administrative and technological incompetence of North Americans.
I think the polluted water that you are forced to drink has affected your brain. And you should thank God that still has some drop of water, even though sewage.
As public sector workers face cuts in benefits and salaries, they are striking all across the nation. Police have met these protests with violence — in the southern state of Paraná, cops unleashed tear gas and rubber bullets on a teachers' protest and injured more than 200 people — sparking more outrage and more protests. Brazil may be reaching its boiling point. “When families go to the supermarket, they can't fill up their carts like they used to with the same amount of money,” Brazilian pollster Mauro Paulino told the Financial Times (U.K.). “And the news is all about corruption. They're short of money and at the same time they are being told they have been robbed.”
Jun 16th, 2015 - 11:03 am - Link - Report abuse 0http://theweek.com/articles/557427/brazils-economic-catastrophe
Told ya
:)
@ 3 Brasso
Jun 16th, 2015 - 11:11 am - Link - Report abuse 0“Soon the branches of GM and Ford will be bought by Brazilian business, this is the only way to survive in this business here in Brazil. In view of the overall administrative and technological incompetence of North Americans”
What an idiot!
So, lets imagine somebody as stupid as you BUT with money buys Ford and GM, ha, ha, ha. What happens next, where are the parts going to come from, but most of all WHO IS GOING TO BUY WHATEVER SHIT THIS IDIOT MAKES?
The people who have money are NOT spending it you twat, and why is that: because the Chief Crook Lula has stolen it!
AND, where did Brazil learn auto-assembly from? The US and Europe: see how far you go without them.
4. This text looks more like a comedy. I see no trace of reality in the article. Maybe that's why we Brazilians do not trust the North-Americans.
Jun 16th, 2015 - 11:12 am - Link - Report abuse 0Soon we will be using technology to intercontinental ballistic rockets from Russia. Now that's cutting-edge technology!
http://www.voanews.com/content/russia-united-states-compete-for-space-partnership-with-brazil/2824135.html
6. Well you're only 50 yrs behind the USA and you're begging us for our technology.
Jun 16th, 2015 - 11:22 am - Link - Report abuse 0Good luck with that.
Brazil steals technology.
We know it.
So let's see how it plays out.
Hopefully nothing will happen while Odumbo is Prez.
YankeeBoy & ChrisR
Jun 16th, 2015 - 01:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0FYI: Brasileiro, Voice, CabezaDura2 are all sock puppets of an idiot living in the United States.
8. I've long thought that there were less than 10 actual people who post on this site.
Jun 16th, 2015 - 01:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Can you imagine how nutty someone has got to be to create different personas and post on an open forum?
@6. I don't know whether you've noticed but this article is about the failing Brazilian automobile industry. And exactly how are you going to use Russian ICBM technology for that? A nuclear warhead on the bonnet? A rocket engine in the boot? You might notice that Russian ICBMs don't carry passengers.
Jun 16th, 2015 - 01:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0But maybe you're hoping that some Russian will leave a brain cell you can use. Here is the mathematical expression to define the installation of a Russian brain cell into a Brazilian. 0 + 1 = 0.5. The explanation for this is that a Russian brain cell is degraded when it bounces around inside an empty Brazilian skull. Provably, Brazilian skulls are empty. The skull is where the brain is supposed to be kept. For 'people', the brain is what guides the voting process. Look what Brazilians vote for. Smiley faces with zero honesty and total incompetence.
Add Troy Tempest to the sock puppet list as well. Brasileiro, Voice, CabezaDura2 are all sock puppets of an idiot living in the United States.
Jun 16th, 2015 - 01:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@11 Think ; )
Jun 16th, 2015 - 03:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0How would you explain the photos provided by Voice?
http://en.mercopress.com/2015/06/10/argentine-businessman-indicted-by-us-in-fifa-corruption-case-turns-in-italy#comment401989
He has previously posted a photo holding a newspaper and written message at Holy Loch location.
In view of this, If you are correct - I must contest your assertion that he os located in US.
Iran or Russia perhaps : )
http://en.mercopress.com/2015/06/10/argentine-businessman-indicted-by-us-in-fifa-corruption-case-turns-in-italy#comment401989
http://en.mercopress.com/2015/06/10/argentine-businessman-indicted-by-us-in-fifa-corruption-case-turns-in-italy#comment401989
Add Trunce to the sock puppet list as well. Brasileiro, Voice, CabezaDura2 and Troy Tempest are all sock puppets of an idiot living in the United States.
Jun 16th, 2015 - 03:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Ha ha...Funny : )
Jun 16th, 2015 - 04:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Perhaps the man (or woman) from Mercopress does it all, and we are all sock puppets....
@6 @12 & @14 are all José Oribe who resides in the United States and routinely expresses highly offensive ethnic and racial views against Latins, despite the fact that he appears to be a dark complected Hispanic himself.
Jun 16th, 2015 - 04:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0There is no telling of how many identities he uses on this board, but he typically will use one sock puppet argue with another opposing view sock puppets all day.
@13
Jun 16th, 2015 - 04:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0What is your criteria to join your list of sock puppets ? Can I apply?
Chicureo
Jun 16th, 2015 - 04:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Look closely at the writing with the marker pen...
It's the same writing as the photo I posted for you last night...;-)))
..and the same marker pen...
https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8641/16687576962_6c3161a7fa_z.jpg
https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8641/16687576962_6c3161a7fa_z.jpg
https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8641/16687576962_6c3161a7fa_z.jpg
“..and the same marker pen...”
Jun 16th, 2015 - 04:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I'll have to take you at your word on that...
Yeah it's beginning to dry out now...getting lighter...
Jun 16th, 2015 - 04:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@3 @6 & @14 @12 @14 @17 & @18 are all José and there's no telling of how many other ignorant adolescent identities he uses on this board, typically using one sock puppet to argue with opposing view sock puppets all day.
Jun 16th, 2015 - 05:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Time you dried out like Think saddo. Just got chucked out of the Combined Services again… Sunshine in Dunoon - makes a change
Jun 16th, 2015 - 05:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Seems to me that if anyone was fake...it would be the Chilean with faultless English, that continually sucks up to the English...loves the Queen and continually attempts to discredit Argentine posters...
Jun 16th, 2015 - 05:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Is this normal for a Latin American....?
22. Dunno is it normal for someone from Scotland to the complete opposite of everything you just posted?
Jun 16th, 2015 - 05:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Psst no its not normal.
Was that English..?
Jun 16th, 2015 - 05:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Try again...I'm sure you knew what you were saying...but only you...
Oh sorry,
Jun 16th, 2015 - 05:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0DUnno is it normal for someone that continually sucks up to the Argentines, Loves Cristina and continually attempts to discredit English Posts
Is this normal for a Scot.
knob
You must be super gross in person both in appearance and manner.
Ohhh no, it is here as well... This Jose Oribe reproduces by mythosis
Jun 16th, 2015 - 05:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Stupid Yank...
Jun 16th, 2015 - 05:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Show me a single post that I have previously even mentioned Cristina, then show me where I have sucked up to Argentines...
You can't ...so what does that make you...a LIAR....
Are all your posts lies...?
Or just some...
Is it normal for a Yank to continually attack Argentina almost every day...?
Were you raped....?
Did that sting?? :)
Jun 16th, 2015 - 05:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The only answer of why you're on this site is because you claim to pay taxes that go to supporting the Falklands and you're vaguely against it.
That's one of the stupidest things I've ever heard on here.
You're a fake, a phony and probably a really disgusting person in real life.
Just like Reekie and Think.
I am very sure you grew up poor, you're uneducated, you've never fit in anywhere and you are bitter and lonely.
Its all in your posts if you care to read them..
I have never lied on this board.
Not once.
Why would I bother? Just like in real life its not worth the effort.
...and did he show me where....No
Jun 16th, 2015 - 05:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0...said he was a liar....
But you won't deny it huh
Jun 16th, 2015 - 06:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@3 @6 & @14 @12 @14 @17 @18 @21 @22 @24 @26 @27 & @29 are all from the same miscreant who pitifully attempts to use Photoshop as proof.
Jun 16th, 2015 - 06:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0#28 Yankee Boy
Spot on!
My great-grandfather and great-Grandmother both emigrated from Scotland and over half of my ancestry is from the British Islands. Anyone like yourself who's actually lived in Argentina, Chile or Uruguay can attest to the large percentage of well educated English speaking inhabitants.
Even THINK ran me through an identity background check three or four years ago. Let the troll consult the the authentic THINK for his opinion.
Besides 600 thousand Chile-Italians (From predominately northern-Italian regions) my country has also has over 700 thousand Chile-British and Irish heritage residents. As I've posted for many years at Mercopress, I was educated at the British Grange in Santiago and converted to using North American English in the mid-80s. I briefly studied at the BRNC and received extensive reserve training at Bedford.
José is absolutely right on the mark that I like very much almost everything about the British Islands, greatly admire Baroness Thatcher and adore her Majesty the Queen.
As most Chileans, many of us have Argentinian friends, but also have disdain for their politics and the “Viveza Criolla” mentality. As you well know, 1978 still remains in the memory of my generation.
The idiot yesterday ignorantly argued to Elaine and I that Italian food was not that popular in Argentina because Pizza Hut did not have much of a presence.
Thats pretty convincing evidence from Voice.
Jun 16th, 2015 - 06:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Why does he hate Falklanders, my guess he was in tbe Scots Guards in the battle of Mount Tumbledown in the 1982 Falklands War. He saw some of his mates killed and was then treated badly by islanders. For that reason he would like to see them subjugated by the Argies.
As for hating Yanks, Holy Loch was once the base for US submarines. A loaded and nicer Yank screwed his Mrs and they ran off together.
Its all about grudges and the anger is there in every post.
Dunoon is a pretty damp miserable place. I would be pissed off if I were stuck there as Billy no mates.
He thinks Think is a pretty good troll thats why they have a love in.
QED
32. I doubt V has been in more than a bar fight and then he ended up face down in this own vomit and blood.
Jun 16th, 2015 - 06:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I am sure that mouth has gotten him into plenty of trouble over the years.
Its all there if you know how to read between the lines.
His name is possibly MacDonald who lives at Labrador, Shore Road PA23 7TR . Google it. Even better, give him a ring he is in the phone book.
Jun 16th, 2015 - 07:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@17, 19, 22, 24, 27, 29. Sorry, saddo. Ever heard of semantic analysis? Got you nailed. Definitely not English. Probably scotch. But possibly living in argieland, where it's soaked up the propaganda. Or its paid. The scotch will do anything for money. Even argie so-called money.
Jun 16th, 2015 - 07:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 034. I couldn't be bothered. I know exactly what it is without ever talking face to face with it.
Jun 16th, 2015 - 07:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0More information can be found regarding the real José Oribe at:
Jun 16th, 2015 - 07:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.armada.mil.cl/armada/tradicion-e-historia/glosario-naval/c/2014-05-15/121453.html
37
Jun 16th, 2015 - 08:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Show us the link to the José Oribe social media site....or STFU....
This is only the second day we've been waiting for it....
I did say we would wait a long time....;-)
#38
Jun 16th, 2015 - 08:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0When you went to the site, didn't you then go to the “Charlie” link?
39
Jun 16th, 2015 - 08:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I didn't go to your link....what part of social media site didn't you understand...?
Trying to appear nonchalant.. Lol! Outed..
Jun 16th, 2015 - 08:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 041
Jun 16th, 2015 - 08:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0nonchalant...?
are you dumb...?
www.armada.mil.cl/armada/tradicion-e-historia/glosario-naval/c/2014-05-15/121453.html
Does that look like a social media site...or does it look like a naval glossary of terms site..?
38 voice
Jun 16th, 2015 - 08:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Ooo... the wee man is angry.
go and beat on the 'ex' again, voicey...
Don't you mean our wife....?
Jun 16th, 2015 - 08:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The ex left with a yank, thats why he is so angry… and then theres Dunoon…
Jun 16th, 2015 - 09:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Yankee Boy and ChrisR
Jun 16th, 2015 - 11:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Someone has been in a “bar fight and ended up face down in this own vomit and blood”
http://en.mercopress.com/2015/06/16/argentina-s-may-official-inflation-1-or-half-that-claimed-by-private-consultants#comment402196. @36
Yep...you...
Jun 16th, 2015 - 11:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The crazy guy....
#47
Jun 17th, 2015 - 12:21 am - Link - Report abuse 0Oh I agree. Free navy cookies REGIN in my estimation of sweets.
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/amid-brazils-economic-crisis-consumers-struggle-debt-31766479
Jun 17th, 2015 - 01:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Consumer buying fueled by debt and now they can't pay it back.
let's see if I were a marxist what would I do...I'd declare the debt invalid and wipe it out.
Or I'd inflate the currency so that its easier to pay back
Let's see what happens....
As I've been saying Brazil blew their wad when they should have been savings.
Now all they have left are bad and worse policy decisions
This will end badly for millions upon millions of people who've yet again been duped by Socialists.
#49 YB
Jun 17th, 2015 - 02:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“I'd inflate the currency so that its easier to pay back...”
In 2016 devaluation of the Peso will be necessary no matter who will be elected.
I agree that it's a ticking time bomb as Brazil and Venezulea.
The military union of BRICS is already happening!
Jun 17th, 2015 - 07:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://in.rbth.com/blogs/2015/05/18/why_a_brics_military_bloc_wont_happen_in_a_hurry_43163.html
Very soon all military bases of the BRICS countries will be shared and the five armed forces will have a central command.
http://in.rbth.com/blogs/2015/05/18/why_a_brics_military_bloc_wont_happen_in_a_hurry_43163.html
OMG Brasileiro it's a blog. I sure hope your job doesn't entailing dealing with anything too complicated.
Jun 17th, 2015 - 08:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I started laughing when it said Brazil had a “prime minister” but could hardly finish when it stated “Plus, Indian and Chinese populations are likely to grow unabated for decades.”
Ummmm this guy is clueless. Already China's workforce has been shrinking for 3 years. I even China estimates its OWN population will start shrinking before 2030. 15 years and not DECADES.
Go ahead. If you wish to let 2 autocratic nations like Russia and China control your military then I will sit back and laugh.
As for the west, an alliance is different to a SINGLE military command. Who would be that stupid except during war?
I also hate to break it to you but India isn't joining China in any military alliance. You really need to get to know your BRICS more because you sure as hell are ignorant about them.
#52 Skip
Jun 17th, 2015 - 08:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0#51 is a sock puppet of many on this site which is backwardly loyal to the Brazilian Worker's Party and hates European heritage people. The BRICS are a passion and as you point out a fantasy. (He's in real life a “Hispanic” residing in the United States.)
India is a socially conflicted mess with way too many people, China is a country with a number of serious problems, especially with a stock market and property bubble, Russia of course is obvious... and “S”... Everyone forgets it stands for an increasingly corrupt South Africa... China and Russia to a lesser amount have been “loansharking” Brazil, Venezuela and Argentina with Yuan/Ruble trade agreements that are detrimental to their “friends”...
52. Negotiations between the BRICS are well advanced. But, of course, there are many rumors about the details. One is out of Brazil and Argentina of the Treaty of Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, and that Russia and China would veto any sanction to these two countries in the UN Security Council.
Jun 17th, 2015 - 08:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Another is the extent of coverage of the military pact that could include UNASUR and the African Union of Nations, or at least part of it.
I do know this: the world is changing very fast.
#54 José
Jun 17th, 2015 - 10:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Argentina has actually a decent trade agreement with Marxist oil wealthy Angola.
Other than South Africa, whom do you suggest ...Ghana...? Maybe you should send a delegation in Tango 1?
Chicureo who gives a sh!t? Honestly!
Jun 18th, 2015 - 06:53 am - Link - Report abuse 0Brasileiro, enjoy your future. My country will stick with democracy and being wealthy. You enjoy your military dictatorships and poverty.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-33195332
Jun 19th, 2015 - 12:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0A group of eight Brazilian senators on a visit to Venezuela to meet a jailed opposition leader say they had to flee after their bus was attacked.
The Brazilian opposition politicians were trying to meet Leopoldo Lopez, who is in jail accused of inciting violence during protests.
The group said the bus was stoned as it travelled from Caracas airport.
Brazil's foreign ministry says it will seek an explanation from the Venezuelan government.
One of the senators, Ronaldo Caiado, tweeted: “Our bus was under siege; they were beating and trying to break it. I filmed them throwing stones against the bus.”
Another, former presidential candidate Aecio Neves, said: “We are here to defend democracy and until now the Venezuelan government has shown little appreciation of it.”
Bahahahahaha
Brotherly Love
They're like wild monkeys.
@ 57 yankeeboy
Jun 19th, 2015 - 05:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Wild monkeys have brains.
Maduro is brainless and clueless which is why the second-in-charge (such a lovely man) is really running the country.
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