Word: lula
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...bringing dozens of Brazilian players to star in their top teams. But Brazil may have been a victim of its own success: Today, the national team is struggling, and the resultant crisis in national pride has enraged everyone from the fans in the cheap seats to President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva...
...earning millions of dollars abroad on their pro teams don't have the same passion for representing the national team as do those that stay close to home, runs the conventional wisdom. "If you look at the Brazilian team there isn't one player who plays in Brazil," President Lula complained bitterly after the Argentina game. "Today, a young player's dream isn't to play for Brazil, it's to play in Europe...
...what is being interpreted as the final straw, a long-awaited Amazon development plan was finally announced last week, not in its original form, but in a version Greenpeace called "light." To add insult to injury, Lula embarrassed Silva by handing control of the plan to Mangabeira Unger, the Special Minister for Strategic Affairs...
...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...
...Veronez and his allies are betting that Silva's replacement will have no more power than she did. The man who has accepted Lula's invitation to replace her is Carlos Minc, until Wednesday the environment secretary in Rio de Janeiro state. Minc is respected as a true believer, even winning a UN prize in 1989 as one of 500 notable green campaigners...