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...have people from all over the world who want to set up branches of our church. We've set the standard for how a training program should be done. We will eventually have chapters in most places all over the world. We've got some in America, Canada, Brazil. We're going to do an international launch day as well where all the churches will open on the same...
...overly ideological decisions have held Brazil back," said Assuero Doca Veronez, a cattle rancher in Silva's home state of Acre and the Brazilian Confederation of Agriculture and Livestock Farming's environmental spokesman. "Her aim was to stop the agricultural frontier advancing. The country could have been growing faster if she had been more flexible...
Within days of taking power in January 2003, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva flew his team of ministers to the three poorest municipalities in Brazil - he wanted the political elite to take a firsthand look at the living conditions of the impoverished voters that had elected them. On a makeshift stage in Brazil's northern scrubland, Lula, like a triumphant band leader, presented his troupe one by one. The crowd welcomed them all politely, but cheered raucously for Benedita da Silva, the black, former housemaid who picked to oversee Lula's social programs, for Culture Minister Gilberto...
...Everything she tried to do she was stymied; she was pretty isolated," said Peter May, assistant director of Friends of the Earth in Brazil. "Lula didn't give her as much prestige as she deserved. I think this is a loss...
...said that over the past five years, students have gone with a faculty member to do for-credit seminar work in places like Bangladesh, China, Chile, and Brazil...