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...fact, with communism gone as an historical antagonist to the Church, there may be more room for social activists and the Roman hierarchy to seek solutions together. It seemed only natural this week for the Pope and Brazil's leftist president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, a longtime ally of the liberation theology movement, to agree on making a central priority of shrinking of the gap between rich and poor, and challenging the "mercantilization" of human beings in an age of globalization. Benedict, on Friday, led the canonization ceremony in Sao Paulo for the first-ever Brazilian-born saint...
...companies alone will not be able to provide it. Improving education will take a commitment from Brazil's leaders. Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva recently admitted that Brazil was "the worst in the world" when it comes to education. A former union leader who quit school to sell peanuts and shine shoes, Lula told teachers in a speech March 15 that the old methods had clearly failed. "I don't think Brazil will be able resolve the problem of the stock of people who were left on the margins of the educational process using the normal traditional...
...Fortunately, all indications are that the Administration has finally gotten the message. The major ethanol investment project that Bush will promote in Brazil with President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva at least captures the spirit of what Latin Americans say they've been wanting from Washington for so long. That is, it's less about the abstractions of free trade - the fruits of which too rarely trickle down in Latin America's corrupt societies - and more about targeting specific development engines that may well create decent-paying jobs. The gesture may be too little too late to repair Bush...
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...
...response, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has promised to hire 60 new controllers. But in declaring the problem resolved, as he did two weeks ago, he has also showed how little he understands the situation. The day he spoke, more than a third of all flights were at least an hour late. On Wednesday, as travelers went home for the holidays, almost half of all flights were delayed by an hour or more...