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BRAZIL Misery's Road Trip On his first official trip, newly elected President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva took 29 members of his cabinet to Vila IrmãDulce in the northeastern state of Piauí, the second-poorest in Brazil, to witness what he called "absolute poverty." Lula - as the President is universally known - has made eradicating the malnutrition that afflicts 54 million Brazilians the top priority of his center-left government. Dubbed "the caravan of misery," the trip made good on Lula's election promise to take his ministers to see the suffering of the country's rural...
INAUGURATED. LUIZ INACIO LULA DA SILVA, 57, as the first left-wing President of Brazil in 40 years; in Brasilia. A former factory worker and fiery trade-union leader, "Lula" swept to power in October with 61% of the vote. He has pledged to reduce corruption, improve education and reduce economic misery. (Brazil currently has a 12% inflation rate and debts that account for nearly 61% of its gdp.) Since October, the President-elect has tried to caution the public against having overly high expectations, but a recent poll found that 80% of Brazilians are hopeful his administration will...
...denies he is doing anything wrong. He says funds for his Lemorai Foundation come from "alms given by Indonesian Muslims who care about our misfortune." He proffers documents indicating everything is on the up-and-up. Children's surnames written on the papers are frequently either "Freitas" or "da Silva," Hasan's family name and that of his wife. Filling out the documents that way strengthens his claim over the children, making Hasan appear to be their nearest relative, says Qodri of the Riantara...
...Cotescu, union leader at Romania's ARO Campulung car factory, on workers' plans to pay the plant's €20 million debt by selling their semen "I can't respond to the deputy of the deputy of the American deputy secretary." Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Brazil's President-elect, on criticism by U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick "It is glorious to be allowed to join the party. But the membership fee is very high." Xiang Shaoliang, CEO of Baopu Garment, on Chinese Communist Party plans to admit entrepreneurs
...prizes for guessing why the markets are jumpy. The winner of the first round, with 46.4% of the vote, was Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva--universally known as Lula--the candidate of the Workers' Party, which has in the past flirted with repudiating Brazil's massive external debt. Lula, 56, a former labor-union leader running for the presidency for a fourth time, is likely to defeat Jose Serra, the candidate of the governing coalition, in the runoff on Oct.27. Following the economic catastrophes in Argentina and Uruguay, American bankers fear that the commitment of Latin America to the Washington...