Word: lula
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When Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva won the race to become Brazilian president four years ago, it was arguably more because of who he was than what he might do. In fact, no one expected miracles from Lula, as he is known to everyone in this mammoth South American nation. Though he had a long and noble history of fighting for the little guy - in a country where the vast majority are little guys - the former shoeshine boy and union leader had little formal education and no experience in government; what's more, he altered many of his long-held...
...since taking power, Lula's government has been acused of doing exactly that. Just last month, Lula's Finance Minister, Antonio Palocci, stepped down, accused of breaking banking secrecy laws in an attempt to discredit a witness who testified before a Congressional committee to seeing him at a villa used by his aides to distribute bribes and sleep with prostitutes. And on Wednesday, a federal prosecutor charged 40 people in connection with the scandal, including Jose Dirceu, the man who was Lula's closest advisor for years. Says opposition Senator Arthur Virgilio: "Lula has run a corrupt government, one that...
...cloud of corruption has hung over Lula's government for most of the past year. His administration has been accused of paying opposition deputies to support its bills in Congress, engineering an illegal campaign finance scheme worth hundreds of millions of dollars and even paying a small right-wing party to jump on the PT's bandwagon before the electoral campaign started. Before Palocci's sudden exit, the party's president, treasurer and secretary-general had all resigned under the same suspicions of graft...
...stridently anti-U.S. President of Venezuela, have gained little traction. Part of that is because L?pez takes pains to pair his social welfare ambitions with an investment-friendly business sense that Wall Street, for example, has found appealing in other modern Latin leftists like Brazilian President Luiz In?cio Lula da Silva...
...However, Morales’ plane for the threecontinent tour was not courtesy of Lula or Bachelet, but thanks to Pat Robertson’s best friend: Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. He leads the other Latin American gauche, and, far too often, the only one visible from the United States to Europe. His oil has bought him warplanes from Spain, guns from Russia, unsustainable welfare to calm poor masses at home, and, not surprisingly, the “unconditional support” of countries in the region. After 9/11, the Bush administration chose to take its ships and interests...