Reply #10: Even Lula isn't that friendly with Castro and Chavez

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Lula is just playing those two for suckers, he's extracting a lot of profits for private brazilian multinationals. In a sense, Lula is another Francois Mitterand, just focusing on cash flow for the upper classes, cutting whatever deals he has to make, as long as Odebrecht and Valle are the ones who make the profits. Those super giants of private Brazilian industry in turn have a deal with the Brazilian left, they'll play ball, pay their taxes, treat their workers ok, but they want new business, and that's what they're getting.