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In reply to the discussion: The myth behind Brazil's Lula is crumbling [View all]byeya
(2,842 posts)36. So do I. It's a little easier now that 0bama has deployed the military to other parts of the world,
and except for Honduras and Colombia and Paraguay, Central and South America is more free from northern interference then it has been for generations.
Lula developed trading partners to counterbalance the USA and the current leadership needs to work with the new Western Hemisphere organization of states - with the USA and Canada excluded - to formulate regional alliances for the benefit of the working people and those that want to work.
Perhaps, they will even be able to rid themselves of the - for them - counterproductive "war on drugs"
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Crime in Sao Paulo is extremely high with the same base causes - out of control gangs.
hack89
Jun 2013
#35
i recently read an article which said that lula = brazilian bourgeosie v. US more than 'left'
HiPointDem
Jun 2013
#6
oh, you considered that an elaboration? i thought you meant it as a rebuttal.
HiPointDem
Jun 2013
#10
i didn't think what i wrote was so difficult as to need clarification. local/nationalist bourgeois
HiPointDem
Jun 2013
#12
no relationship between knowing something about portuguese history and using the word
HiPointDem
Jun 2013
#17
I've learnt something from BainsBane in this thread, from well-written posts
muriel_volestrangler
Jun 2013
#20
thanks again teach expert on islam now an expert on brazil my some posters do get around
HiPointDem
Jun 2013
#31
Yeh, it's like a surgeon not getting all the cancer out. If she doesn't get it all out,
Zorra
Jun 2013
#26
of course that was my point, & anyone could understand it except the personal harrassment
HiPointDem
Jun 2013
#32
Lula's election was huge! His accomplishments are considerable but the people awakened to
byeya
Jun 2013
#24