MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Brazil's budget during May back in the red; Congress restless about austerity
Brazil reported a primary budget deficit for May that was its widest for 2015, making its annual savings goal more difficult to achieve despite government efforts to raise taxes and cut spending. Central bank data showed a primary budget deficit of 6.9 billion Reais ($2.23 billion). This compared with a primary surplus of 13.445 billion Reais in April. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesUntil and unless they stop the free $ to slumdwellers they'll not solve their fiscal or moral crisis.
Jul 02nd, 2015 - 11:15 am - Link - Report abuse 0Sinking sinking sinking...
Just like I said it would 2+ yrs ago...
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This video is very good. Too bad you are illiterate in Portuguese.
Jul 02nd, 2015 - 11:46 am - Link - Report abuse 0https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEaGAmN3k3M
yeah first rule of a propaganda video is not to show your soldiers crying.
Jul 02nd, 2015 - 12:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Brazil has never fought a modern war.
Why you keep posting ridiculous videos is beyond me.
It really makes you and your country looks stupid and weak.
BTW I hope you saw the new agreement that subjugates Brazil's military to the USA just signed by Dilma.
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Brazil is a country of peace. We never go into war again. Except if we are invaded by some power.
Jul 02nd, 2015 - 12:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0:)
Then why do you post ridiculous military videos showing how inept your people are and how old and out of date your equipment is?
Jul 02nd, 2015 - 12:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0FYI you're already at war in the Favelas fighting and killing your own people.
This new guy who came in to solve the problems of the economy clearly had not thought it through before he took the job.
Jul 02nd, 2015 - 01:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“But a drop in tax revenues caused by a sharp economic contraction is complicating Finance Minister Joaquim Levy's efforts to shore up the country's finances after years of heavy spending.”
Really, WTF would have thought that?
ANYBODY with a modicum of real world experience.
Oh dear, back to a video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNPJuJSVmNA
There, feel better now?
Self-esteem!
Jul 02nd, 2015 - 01:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS_PjwaqZYE
Jul 02nd, 2015 - 01:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Gross.
basically they're animals
I can not see the video at the time. It's about the animals of Baltimore?
Jul 02nd, 2015 - 02:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0:)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67gBvkZ7_lo
Jul 02nd, 2015 - 03:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I would bet most everyone in Brazil would give up a treasured body part to live in Baltimore.
I know Baltimore and frankly I prefer Curitiba. In fact, in the US there is no more pleasant city than Curitiba.
Jul 02nd, 2015 - 03:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I am sure your extensive travels took you to Baltimore.
Jul 02nd, 2015 - 04:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0A city most Americans haven't even seen or heard about..
Bahahahaha
What a liar.
12. I do not want you to think I'm rich, but I am. And I know more countries and cities than you can count on your brain.
Jul 02nd, 2015 - 04:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You should use some of that vast fortune to learn English and Logic.
Jul 02nd, 2015 - 04:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Google translate is not your friend.
BTW rich people don't support Dilma or Lula
ooops.
http://theconversation.com/megacity-drought-sao-paulo-withers-after-dry-wet-season-42799
As a consequence, the entire state of Sao Paulo, with a population of 40 million inhabitants, is undergoing a deadly dengue fever outbreak. In the SPMA, where the situation is really dramatic because of the limited access to water, the government created many improvised ambulatories throughout the city to attend the population with symptoms of the disease. Officials go door-to-door searching for infectious mosquito larvae and educating the population about the disease. However, all these measures have proven to be inefficient to control the dengue larvae proliferation.
The videos about the favela of Rocinha are excellent. Whenever I can I go to Rio de Janeiro. For me it is the most beautiful city in the world!
Jul 02nd, 2015 - 08:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qig0zc7Cy-0
its pretty if you don't mind getting held up on the beach and you look past all the beggars and the slums.
Jul 02nd, 2015 - 08:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Yeah real pretty.
You may have traffickers, however beggars is easier for you to find them in New York than in Rio.
Jul 02nd, 2015 - 08:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Regarding the slums, I think they have a unique culture. It's something indescribable.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zps5e3MQVnU&list=FLmXPTu1f8AdGlizWNiASx2A&index=5
I agree slums are hard to describe to someone from a civilized society.
Jul 02nd, 2015 - 08:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The real Rio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1AjvoXqxeE
nothing but animals
Maybe you're right. Maybe not.
Jul 02nd, 2015 - 09:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0But I would not trade my country for your country. Because it is not a question of material values it is a matter of love. I love my country and I never asked what it can do for me, but what I can do for my Brazil.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UN8vXQol9U&index=126&list=FLmXPTu1f8AdGlizWNiASx2A
@ 14 yankeeboy
Jul 02nd, 2015 - 09:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“You should use some of that vast fortune to learn English and Logic.”
He still would not be able to do either, he clearly has a limited intellect.
Being an avid PT / Lula supporter confirms that.
If ever you get the chance, watch the film “City of God”. Only one of the favela boys makes it out and to world-wide acclaim for his photographer and that part is absolutely real.
Chris, Funny you should mention that I just saw it on Netflix. Very good movie about a very sad place.
Jul 02nd, 2015 - 09:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Brazil will never make it into a developed country. It is impossible with so many slumdwellers. They just keep pulling every one down like crabs in a crab pot.
@ 11 brASSHOLE
Jul 02nd, 2015 - 10:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“I know Baltimore and frankly I prefer Curitiba. In fact, in the US there is no more pleasant city than Curitiba”.
I have been to both cities quite a few times, and while Curitiba, compared to other Brazilian cities, is definitely quite nice, it is useless to compare it to Baltimore, or any other US city. Only an asshole would, and your statement that there is no city in the US, more pleasant than Curitiba, is proof that you know fuck all about the US. If you ever went to Baltimore, can only imagine it having been as a deck-hand on some Brazilian ship, which explains why your knowledge of the US would be rather limited (to port areas).
As for the 'Rocinha' and the other 'favelas' in Rio, what is undescribable, is the ugliness and horrible stench that they all have in common......no sewage system and precarious garbage collection, but you're probably used to that .
Your # 19 takes the prize though....“ I love my country and I never asked what it can do for me, but what I can do for my Brazil”.....doesn't sound very original, just a poorly expressed version of the end of one of JFK's well-known speeches....what a deluded turd you are, trying to compare yourself to JFK...
Brasshole “você é um aborto da natureza” ....
Brasshole, I'm surprised anyone talks to you in Curitiba, not great fans of your bollocks PT party there, you don't have far though to go for the Policia Federal there to come and get you, and chuck you in the Curitiba clink with all the other dishonest John's they've been rounding up.
Jul 03rd, 2015 - 03:36 am - Link - Report abuse 0You should worry about Richa, not me.
Jul 03rd, 2015 - 02:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Brasshole you should worry about being told to pick up the soap
Jul 03rd, 2015 - 03:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@25 Tik Tok
Jul 03rd, 2015 - 06:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0As I said in my #22, if he's ever been to Baltimore, it was probably as a deck-hand on some Brazilian rust-bucket, therefore he is more than likely to used to having some Navy Cake served up every night...
3 yankeeboy
Jul 08th, 2015 - 11:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Well at least not since WWII when they fought in Italy, the Atlantic and the Pacific with apparently great valor. I see this is where all the reactionary racists hang out.
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