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Political ally who can save Rousseff from impeachment wants Brazil out of Mercosur
Renan Calheiros, president of the Brazilian Senate, and the man who could help President Dilma Rousseff avoid impeachment in Congress, has proposed a package of measures to rescue Brazil from its current stagflation, but among his demands is “an end to the customs union of Mercosur”. Read full article
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Aug 14th, 2015 - 10:04 am - Link - Report abuse 0It is as I have been saying for years now, Brazil needs to reform to reach its potential. Mercosur is an anchor as is many of the economic bottlenecks that cause inflation to jump every time the economy tries to grow too much.
Hopefully as Dilma is a lame duck president, she might actually allows some reform.
Uh oh, looks like BRASSO's 'Prosperity Model' is being threatened.
Aug 14th, 2015 - 12:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0First sensible idea to come from The Brazil Nuts.
Aug 14th, 2015 - 06:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Chubby made Mercosur into a political talking shop, not a sales shop.
TDC are of course the real problem for everybody.
Best scenario of all, Brazil abandoning the Mercosur, and the (now thinner) fat D becoming weaker until she resigns (her rapid weight loss is apparently associated with her doctors taking her off cortisone, being administered as one of the components to try to keep her cancer under control). May be now, she'll pip it ?
Aug 15th, 2015 - 05:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0From the geopolitical point of view I can see no reason why Brazil would benefit from an exit from Mercosul.
Aug 16th, 2015 - 02:56 am - Link - Report abuse 05 Hepatia
Aug 16th, 2015 - 03:14 am - Link - Report abuse 0You are trying to sound objective, but you only reveal your own bigotry and indoctrination.
Brazil is the economic cornerstone of Mercosur.
Argentina and Venezuela are imploding.
If Brazil were to leave, and forge their own trade agreements, Uruguay and Paraguay would follow, chasing money and opportunities.
Perhaps Brazil would join the Pacific Alliance.
Chile is already in the Pacific Alliance and doing nicely.
Demonstration organizer are playing down the low numbers. It looks like only Sao Paulo got numbers. But still down from April.
Aug 17th, 2015 - 06:31 am - Link - Report abuse 0@5 Hippy
Aug 17th, 2015 - 05:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Will try to keep it simple, so that even you can understand. The Mercosul Trade agreement has become more politically oriented than trade-oriented ...first thing gone wrong.
Secondly, the Mercosul rules prevent members from signing trade agreements with other countries, or with other economic blocks (NAFTA, EU) unless all members are involved and co-sign.
With members like Argentina, which is incapable of getting its act together, even within LATAM, and VZ, it's like having an anvil tied to your feet, just dragging you down. 24 years of Mercosul have proved to be quite ineffective for Brazil, so Bzl needs the freedom to sign agreements with whomever it wants, and if other members get peeved, let them do the same - IF they are capable....THAT is the big problem, they aren't. Brazil doesn't necessarily NEED to abandon Mercosul, but DOES need to remove the rule prohibits individual members from signing agreements with other countries, which is no more than a shackle.
@7 wtf has this to do with the subject headline ??
And here is why the numbers were down: http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/fsp/poder/229820-maioria-nas-ruas-e-homem-e-tem-curso-superior.shtml
Aug 18th, 2015 - 06:24 am - Link - Report abuse 0Let's face it, a country can have only so many old balding white men with paunchs. And they are a dying demographic.
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Aug 18th, 2015 - 01:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Are you playing the Race card, and being Ageist now??
@ 10 Troy Tempest
Aug 18th, 2015 - 05:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0No, just the usual twat we have all come to take the piss out of.
@9 Hippy
Aug 18th, 2015 - 06:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You insist on talking about Sunday's protests against your darling Dilma, so OK, what's the big problem with the fact - if true - that the protests attract more men, and those with University degrees, than other groups ? For one, it would show that Dilma, Lulla and the PT cannot pull the wool over the eyes of people who have an education.
Sorry to challenge the headline of the “Folha”, which you gobbled up hook, line and sinker, but I was at there and saw just as many, or more , women and teenagers than men....but one “old, balding white man with a paunch” who was not there, and is in fact a “dying demographic”, is Lulla.....Have you seen him of late ? doesn't look too healthy....
You and the brasshole are much the same : very selective in what you choose to believe and spout as the truth, but the fact remains, you were not there and you are not as well informed as you think you are.
12 Jack
Aug 18th, 2015 - 08:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Nice post - I didn't want to click on his link, so I couldn't confirm the nonsense he was spouting THIS time.
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