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Luiz In?cio Lula da Silva couldn't have picked a worse time to launch a presidential campaign. That was back in 1989, his first bid for Brazil's presidency, when he was still a radical, left-wing populist yammering for Brazil to default on its foreign debt even as Brazil - and the rest of Latin America - were embarking on a decade of free-market reforms and fiscal austerity. Lula still finished second in 1989, as he would in 1994 and '98; but nightmares of the region's "Lost Decade" of the 1980s - when Latin American socialism had produced inflation rates...
...pick a new president on October 6? The answer may lie in the recent failure of U.S.-backed capitalist experiments all over Latin America, which have left even more of the region's 500 million people mired in poverty. That, and the fact that the erstwhile firebrand leader of Brazil's Workers Party (PT) has in some ways repackaged himself as a Blair of Brazil, moving his party and its policies toward the center as Tony Blair has done so successfully for Britain's Labor Party...
...described particular “hotspots” around the world, such as the Atlantic Forest in Brazil, that face acute danger from HIPPO...
Emerging markets investments—which include Brazil, Mexico, Taiwan and China—increased 7.5 percent against a benchmark of 1.9 percent...
...roll to trap particles. The Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University nestled in next to Sustainable Switzerland. A group promoted condom use to stop the spread of aids. A woman from the Haida Indian community in western Canada touted a cd-rom that outlined the importance of maintaining her culture. Brazil's stand featured a kitchen churning out "sustainable cookies" made of Brazil nuts grown in a tropical forest...