Word: brazilians
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...negotiations with the foreign firms were not always smooth. Morales' first hydrocarbons minister resigned; the president of the state energy company was removed in the midst of corruption allegations; official talks didn't begin until September; and Petrobras, the Brazilian energy giant, threatened to walk away from the table at the last minute. "The companies were always going to comply with their 20-year contracts," says Yussef Akly, spokesperson for Hydrocarbons Chamber, an association of over 100 gas and oil companies operating in Bolivia. "But it's the question of investment. Bolivia's move generated conditions that could have...
...packed house at the Regal Union Square Theatre in Manhattan was stoked for the midnight screening of Saw III. The crowd of predominantly young men, some with dates, lent sympathetic attention to the trailers for Turistas (American kids trapped in the house of a Brazilian madman) and The Messengers (the Pang brothers' monster house movie). A collective laugh greeted the opening seconds of the Borat trailer. Then came a trailer in, of all languages, German (subtitled in English): a guttural voice observing that in the U.S. 10,000 people are killed each year, most of them by guns. "Americans...
...rival, as most analysts expected. "If you look at the course of the last five or six months there has only been one poll out of range, and that was on the eve of the election itself," said Dr. Timothy Power, a lecturer at Oxford University's Centre for Brazilian Studies. "Lula had to face the first-round election on his one bad weekend of the year. I think the fact that we have to face a runoff at all is a fluke...
...Unseating a storied incumbent with a record approval rating and the loyalty of 45 million poor people who benefit from his wide-ranging assistance programs was always a tall order for Geraldo Alckmin, the candidate of the centrist Brazilian Social Democratic Party. Alckmin benefited when members of Lula's Workers' Party (PT) were caught trying to buy documents to smear electoral rivals. The scandal helped Alckmin eat into Lula's lead and deny him the 50%-plus-one margin needed to claim outright victory in the first round of voting, which gave Alckmin 41.6% to Lula's 48.6%. But that...
...whose support he needed to stand any chance of winning. Compared to Lula's plain speaking and good humor, Alckmin's didactic style and fastidious pronunciation were off-putting. "Alckmin is educated, cultured and he comes across as upper-middle-class elite," said Carlos Manhanelli, the president of the Brazilian Association of Political Consultants and a veteran campaign manager. "He looks like he has never suffered and so can't understand ordinary people's problems. Lula has a bond with the masses. He has more credibility...