Two thousand miles north of that bustling hub of Brazilian business, São Paulo, lies a dusty hamlet of 26,000 peasants. Nestled in the country’s drought-prone northeast, an area said to contain Latin America’s largest concentration of rural poverty, Caetés is a town where nearly everyone is—or claims to be—related to Brazil’s new president, widely hailed as globalization’s greatest hope in decades.… return to article
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Reader Comments (3)Page 1 of 1 pagesGreetings,
May Lula survive. The pressure the IMF and World Bank can bring to bear on “struuggling economies” is immense. May the peasants surround him, like the foto-op military surroud Bushwhacker on each “public appearance.”ananda
daigu
Posted by daigu on Jan 21, 2004 at 8:00 AM This is a crucial time for Latin America because we have lost our innocence and know that unless we stand united and working in one direction we will continue submerged and economically exploited. Our eyes are set on Lula, as on Kirchner and Chaves and their firm standing against USA eternal pressures. The USA has the greatest deficit in history but nobody seems to question their administration, or their war budget. they had tremendous scandals of corruption in corporations, overpricing of goods to the Pentagon, and Wall Street tycoon giving himself an unexpected bonus but those are considered minor “mistakes”. But if you mention the word “corruption” all eyes will turn to South America. I wish Lula the best and hope he can survive the covert attacks he will no doubt suffer.
Posted by Maria L. Etchart on Jan 22, 2004 at 7:48 AM Lula sounds like a good guy to combat the evils of neo-liberal corporatist empirialism… I just wish the American media would cover such topics. America is ignorant to the problems their “policies” are wreakig upon the world.
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