Word: brazile
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...Oscar Niemeyer's sambadrome in 1984, it marked the beginning of the end for the spontaneous carnival of the people. Authorities began selling tickets to what had been a free show, pricing out many. Corporate clients reserved large parts of the arena for the rich, famous and, this being Brazil, beautiful. Around the same time samba schools themselves moved away from their roots in Rio's poor communities, giving awards to sambas sung by outsiders and adopting themes sponsored by multinationals. (Last year's champion won with an appeal for Latin American unity that was funded, to the tune...
...Brazil's president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is assuming his second term in office with a whopping 62% vote mandate. But look at some of the people he has to deal with in the country's congress: Fernando Collor de Melo, a former president impeached in 1992 on corruption charges; Paulo Maluf, a two-time Mayor of Sao Paulo convicted of fraud; and Clodovil, a camp television presenter and former stylist to the stars who, when asked to name some pet projects he would bring to the new parliament replied, "I have no projects." And this was after Brazilians...
...incoming membership of Brazil's upper and lower legislative bodies, the Senate and the House of Deputies, take their oaths of office this week. How well Lula deals with them will be vital in deciding not only how he shapes his second and final four-year term but also his political legacy. Although he has reduced poverty through a far-reaching project that gives money to the poor to keep their kids in school, he has failed to pass the structural reforms he promised during his first run for office...
...Indeed, the early signs do not bode well. Lula has formed a provisional coalition but its future is hardly bright. Three months after winning the election, the PT is still negotiating who gets what lucrative posts in the cabinet and the PT and the Communist Party of Brazil have spent the last two months in a very public battle over who should get the key position of president of the lower house. Lawmakers have no incentive to change their ways. The job is just too comfortable. They might lack, as the head of the Chamber's Ethics Council said last...
...involved in alleged wrongdoing and acquitted many of those accused of involvement in the scandals. Avarice is rife: faced with better offers, 194 deputies swapped parties during the last session and 14 of the new batch have switched their affiliation before even taking office. The problem for Lula and Brazil is that changing that putrid political system involves politicians voting for their demise. That isn't going to happen, and certainly not with the likes of Maluf and Collor in Congress. It's going to be a long, four years for Lula...