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Chávez Gets Strong Support
From Brazil
President Lula's Party,
Renowned Leaders
kind of bonded labor slavery -- sex
slavery. The ILO report did call these newly defined slavery
practices the result of lawlessness in the country (interior
Brazil). Bush also just last week urged tough new law enforcement
against human trafficking as he says, Human life is the gift of our
The Hindu
Tuesday, Jul 20, 2004
Slave labour in Brazil
By Paul Brown
An unpublished report for the ILO says that despite
the best efforts of the
Brazilian Government, slave labour continues in the
country's interior.
AN ESTIMATED 25,000 people are working as slave
labourers in Brazil clearing
NY Times, May 23, 2004
Tracking the Sale of a Kidney on a Path of Poverty and Hope
By LARRY ROHTER
RECIFE, Brazil When Alberty Jos da Silva heard he could make money,
lots of money, by selling his kidney, it seemed to him the opportunity
of a lifetime. For a desperately ill 48-year-old woman
said there were
many similarities between India and Brazil.
He said the two countries could change global trading patterns if they
acted together in negotiations.
He later witnessed the signing of a preferential trade pact between India
and South America's Mercosur bloc.
The Brazilian president
[One cheer for Lula deparment]
January 3, 2004
The New York Times
Brazil Pays Parents to Help Poor Be Pupils, Not Wage Earners
By CELIA W. DUGGER
F ORTALEZA, Brazil Vandelson Andrade, 13, often used to skip school to
work 12-hour days on the small, graceful fishing boats that sail
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Assunto: [PEN-L] Brazil Pays Parents to Help Poor Be Pupils, Not Wage
Earners
[One cheer for Lula deparment]
As a matter of fact
On Sun, 4 Jan 2004, Renato Ribeiro Pompeu wrote:
[One cheer for Lula deparment]
As a matter of fact, these programs began long before Lula became
president. They were initiated principally by municipal governments.
That's why he gets one cheer instead of three. But he is increasing them
Before you go, tell us more about the your impression of the PGE bailout.
Eugene Coyle wrote:
This from the World Bank is interesting because Brazil seems determined
to roll back the privatization of electric power by opening the
generation market to the publically owned utility. The new
The International Herald Tribune | www.iht.com
Why eyes are on Brazil
David de Ferranti and Vinod Thomas IHT
Wednesday, December 24, 2003
A new model of growth
BRASILIA Call it the Brasília consensus. President Luiz Inácio Lula da
Silva, who began his term as president of Brazil on the first
This from the World Bank is interesting because Brazil seems determined
to roll back the privatization of electric power by opening the
generation market to the publically owned utility. The new president of
Eletrobras has complained of the destatization of the neo-liberal
agenda -- and talks
Brazilians Soured by U.S. Sugar Tariffs
By Jon Jeter
Washington Post Foreign Service
Wednesday, September 10, 2003; Page A12
SERTAOZINHO, Brazil -- Wearing a straw hat, shin guards and goggles,
Joaquim Batista dos Santos swings his machete in wide, looping arcs,
hacking away at the eight-foot
According to Financial Times, Luiz Inácio Lula on Friday postponed a US$750m
defence programme to use the defence funds in famine fight ( I can't access
FT). Does anyone know anything about it?
Mohammad Maljoo
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STOP MORE
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,868573,00.html
On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 04:58:48PM +, Mohammad Maljoo wrote:
According to Financial Times, Luiz Inácio Lula on Friday postponed a US$750m
defence programme to use the defence funds in famine fight ( I can't access
On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Mohammad Maljoo wrote:
According to Financial Times, Luiz Inácio Lula on Friday postponed a
US$750m defence programme to use the defence funds in famine fight (I
can't access FT).
[Here you go:]
Financial Times; Jan 03, 2003
Lula to use defence funds in famine fight
By
I have a bad feeling about this. Brazil was going to get full technology
transfer in the deal - one reason why the US pulled out of the bid and went
home grumbling. The factory for making the planes was going to be built in
Brazil itself. If you had to cut 750 million dollars out of somewhere
Fuel Shipment Arrives in Venezuela
Fuel Shipment Arrives in Venezuela As President Chavez Insists He's
Winning Oil Standoff
The Associated Press
CARACAS, Venezuela Dec. 28 -
Venezuela got some desperately needed gasoline from abroad Saturday
as President Hugo Chavez claimed he was winning the
* New York Times 27 December 2002
Brazil Sends Gasoline at Venezuelan's Request
By LARRY ROHTER
RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec. 26 - In a show of support for Venezuela's
embattled president, Hugo Chávez, the Brazilian government has sent
an emergency shipment of 520,000 barrels of gasoline
] praise the choice of Meirelles, but want him to
leave the PSDB.
The official announcement that elected lower house member Henrique Meirelles
(PSDB-Goiais social-democratic party of Brazil, Goiais state) will be the
president of the Central Bank in the future PT government has drawn praises
[LA Times]
THE WORLD
In Brazil, Lula Aide Steering Toward Middle
Ex-radical Jose Dirceu helps to shape incoming government and for now urges moderation.
By Hector Tobar and Paula Gobbi
Times Staff Writers
December 8 2002
RIO DE JANEIRO -- At each step of his eventful life in Brazilian politics
[snip]
The liberalisation of the foreign investment law and the privatisation of
state enterprises brought in $1.8 billion in net foreign direct investment
in 1994 to $30 billion in 2000. The foreign investment boom put Brazil in
the sixth place among developing countries in terms of penetration
http://www.levy.org/docs/pn/02-2.html
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Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
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For a complementary take:
http://www.brazil.ox.ac.uk/workingpapers/dePaula28.pdf
Expansion Strategies of European Banks to Brazil and their Impacts on the
Brazilian Banking Sector
The paper aims
Sharing this was a nice touch.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
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(Pen-l'ers who want to learn about unfolding events in Brazil are
invited to check the archives of the Marxism list at:
http://www.columbia.edu/~lnp3/archives.htm. We are fortunate to have a
number of Brazilians on the list, including sociologist Carlos Rebello
who in my opinion is one
washingtonpost.com
Policy Watch
Sunday, October 27, 2002; Page H03
All financial attention today is on Brazil, where the almost certain
election of leftist Luis Inacio Lula da Silva has driven interest rates on
government bonds to 22 percent.
Brazil, in effect, finds itself in the midst
September 25, 2002
Center for Economic and Policy Research
Paying the Bills in Brazil:
Does the IMF's Math Add Up?
By Mark Weisbrot and Dean Baker
Executive Summary (full paper is at www.cepr.net)
The IMF has recently approved a $30 billion loan
to Brazil, with the idea that the government
Banks Vow To Maintain Brazil Credit
Pledge Gives a Boost To IMF Bailout Effort
By Paul Blustein
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, August 27, 2002; Page E01
The troubled international initiative to rescue the Brazilian economy got a shot in the
arm yesterday as executives of 16 major banks
[The Wall Street Journal]
August 21, 2002
[Image]
Brazil's Leftist Candidate Gomes
Taps Princeton Academic for Boost
By JONATHAN KARP
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
SAO PAULO, Brazil -- Can the appointment of a
prominent Princeton economist with BRAZIL ELECTIONS
free
to the Bloomberg News Service. The Brazilian bond
market also rallied.
Sources said yesterday that details of the talks between Brazil and
its creditors were still being worked out.
IMF spokesman Thomas Dawson said the fund would probably send a
representative to the talks to provide information
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
AUGUST 15, 2002 11:19 AM
CONTACT: Congressman Bernie Sanders
Joel Barkin 202-225-4115
Sanders: $30 Billion IMF Bailout for Brazil is a Windfall to Banks, A
Disaster for US Taxpayers
Congressmen Calls on Congress for Investigation
BURLINGTON, VERMONT - August 15
Title: Stiglitz on IMF Brazil
New York TIMES/op-ed/August 14, 2002
A Second Chance for Brazil and the I.M.F.
By JOSEPH E. STIGLITZ
The world is waiting to see how the market will judge Brazil and whether the International Monetary Fund's rescue package, announced over the weekend
Stiglitz:
In recent years, Brazil has created a vibrant democracy with a strong
economy. Differences of opinion exist, but on Brazil's key issues a broad
consensus prevails, one that includes all the major contenders in the
country's presidential election in October.
A reference to Lula's
Counterpunch, July 2, 2002
Brazil, the Workers' Party and the FT
Casino Real: Brazil's Other Challenge
Futebol's not the only place where Brazil's on top, though this time the
players are international risk agencies and creditors
by Norman Madarasz
As North American tourists and media people
like that.
Thiago Oppermann
On 3/7/2002 9:24 PM, Louis Proyect [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Counterpunch, July 2, 2002
Brazil, the Workers' Party and the FT
Casino Real: Brazil's Other Challenge
Futebol's not the only place where Brazil's on top, though this time the
players
the
ability of borrowers to repay their debt - downgraded Brazilian
debt. Moody's cut its outlook on Brazilian government debt to
negative and Fitch downgraded its rating as well.
Investors fear that if Brazil goes off the rails, the rest of
Latin America will descend into chaos as the economic
Brazil central bank under fire amid rocky markets
Thursday June 6, 4:08 PM EDT
By Carlos A. DeJuana
SAO PAULO, Brazil, June 6 (Reuters) - Brazil's Central Bank came
under fire on Thursday for what observers said were perhaps
ill-timed moves that further agitated debt and currency markets
I see you mention, Karel Kosik. Dialectics of the Concrete,
author, if memory serves. Karel Kovanda from Czechoslovakia
translated it. Telos in the 70's had a number of articles by
and about Kosik. Let me know if you want specific cites. Plus,
be in touch with Alexandre Fenelon, from Brazil
I am a free lance journalist living and working in Brasil. During one of
my
online researches in the area of economy I came accross your list
between
one link and another. I read some of the messages and liked the very
serious
tone on the list. I then decided to suscribe.
I am a great admirer
Welcome, Claire,
I hope you can bring your fresh perspective to us. We need more smart
people, more women, and more people from the South. In the US we know too
little about Brazil, although it's one of the most important countries in
the world. Most North Americans don't even know what
Global: Risks to US Corporate Profits Mount in Brazil
17 January 2002
Joe Quinlan/Rebecca McCaughrin (New York) (Morgan Stanley)
The devaluation of the Argentine peso, down over 40% since the one-to-one
peg with the dollar was abandoned, has no doubt added even more strain to
the balance sheets
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Isn't Brazil in a much worse position, macro
accounting and socially. Th exposure
Defiant Brazil gives go-ahead for copies of anti-Aids drug
Special report: Aids
Alex Bellos in Rio de Janeiro and James Meikle
Friday August 24, 2001
The Guardian
Brazil has declared that it will allow generic copies of a brand-name
anti-Aids drug to be made without the permission
[FT]
Real weakness
In spite of decade of reform, Brazil's economy remains vulnerable,
says Geoff Dyer
Published: August 15 2001 18:33GMT | Last Updated: August 15 2001
18:36GMT
Every time a large developing country suffers an economic crisis,
Brazil feels the effects. It was the case
I would love to see pen-l help to develop the sort of analytical
materials
that Gene reported. I know that others here, Ellen Frank, Doug
Henwood,
the inestimable Max Sawicky and others frequently are called upon
for
public presentations. I would not be surprised to see Tim call upon
[MP is with UFE; some good tidbits below if you substitute terms
etc written fall 2000]
http://www.ultrabit.net/noa/gathering/feature.cfm?filename=pages/globa
l.html
Creating an Integrated Organizing Model
by Mike Prokosch
Since the spectacular 'shutdown in Seattle' a year ago, the US
The June 6th New York Times has a story about the electricity crisis in
Brazil. It is outrageously misleading about the crisis.
I went to Brazil at the invitation of the Congress about two weeks ago.
In Brasilia I was part of a debate in the House of Deputies about the
very, very serious
Before I went to Brazil I read a couple of posts from Ian about
international coffee markets.
I made use of those in my talk in the Congress, and I think to good
effect. I got great applause at the end, from at least one side of the
aisle.
I've been meaning to thank Ian and also to call
I would love to see pen-l help to develop the sort of analytical materials
that Gene reported. I know that others here, Ellen Frank, Doug Henwood,
the inestimable Max Sawicky and others frequently are called upon for
public presentations. I would not be surprised to see Tim call upon Gene
for
The A20 protests in São Paulo, Brazil became quite violent. Allegations
of police aggression have been made. Photos are available at:
http://brasil.indymedia.org/search-process.php3?medium=image
(Internet Explorer recommended for this site, but it still takes a
while to load.) With Bush's new
Brazil's jet dogfight
By MARK
MACKINNON
From Saturday's Globe
and Mail
Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil A sleek collection of
factories and office towers set against
Chrysler Workers Strike in Brazil
Labour Left Opposition - http://CLC_LO.listbot.com
Shocked by DaimlerChrysler's announcement on January 29 of its "turnaround
plan" for the Chrysler division, with job losses of 26,000 over the next
three years and the closure of
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e policies, after the failure
of initially high interest rate conditionalities of IMF rescue
packages. In fact, it is now clear that initial IMF policies
exacerbated the crises in Asia, Russia and Brazil.
In July 1997, when the Asian financial crises began in Thailand, the
meltdowns had not been
possible solutions for the country's deep financial crisis.
After the meeting, he said that "the situation in Brazil is developing
the way we wanted ... with the return of confidence in the markets."
The real, the Brazilian currency, has held steady on forein
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Date: Tuesday, January 12, 1999 6:35 AM
OWC URGENT APPEAL: LANDLESS PEASANTS BRAZIL
but the economy will."
October 29, 1998
ECONOMIC SCENE
An Expensive Fix That Won't Cure Brazil
Regards,
Tom Walker
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October 29, 1998
ECONOMIC SCENE
An Expensive Fix That Won't Cure Brazil
By MICHAEL M. WEINSTEIN
The austerity plan spelled out Wednesday by Brazil will not solve its
financial crisis. Nor will a $30 billion to $35 billion bailout package,
including several billion from American taxpayers
Perhaps I can make myself clearer if I offer a slightly
more fleshed-out interpretation of events in Brazil.
First a couple paragraphs from a PKT post the other
week.
"
A skewed income distribution such as that suffered by
Brazil is an inadequate basis for growth -- low and
uns
G'day again,
Lou reposts:
... some companies in once formidable industries
like textiles and toys have slowed production and begun importing from
China, "doing what's best for the company rather than what's best for
Brazil." He said he could not imagine what Brazil's long-term g
October 2, 1998
On Election Eve, Doubts Cloud Brazilians' Outlook
By DIANA JEAN SCHEMO
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil -- When Josue da Silva stepped up to the consumer
society four years ago, the ground underfoot felt solid and endless.
For the first time in years inflation in Brazil was under
economy if Brazil
goes down. Stay tuned.
Meanwhile, back in Long-Term Capital Land, I'm sure nothing like _that_
could happen again. I mean they've all learned their lesson, right? Holy
Shit, the whole fuckin' boat is comin' apart at the seams! October is some
month, eh?
Regards,
Tom Walker
September 28, 1998
Calculated Risk: U.S. and I.M.F. Lead Push for Brazil Bailout Plan
By LOUIS UCHITELLE
With the Clinton administration and the International Monetary Fund taking
the lead, a package of loans for Brazil, likely to total more than $30
billion, is gradually being put together
And don't forget Yahoo's world markets page, at
http://quote.yahoo.com/m2?u, updated all day. You can get charts and news
from that page too.
Doug
If you really want to have a laugh, go to http://quote.yahoo.com/ and hit
reload every 5 seconds or so. You will see the D-J, now down 315 points,
Gary Dymski wrote:
By the way, for those interested in checking out some of the trends:
A really interesting source for such gawking, if an incomplete one for
developing markets, is www. bigcharts.com, which readily pulls up
historical data in graphical form.
And don't forget Yahoo's world
Tom Walker asked me what was going on in Brazil, since I'd just visited
and talked with many economists. Thought this might be of more general
interest.
Wrote Tom:
My impression from just looking at the newswire numbers was that the focus
of the storm was shifting to Brazil. What does it look
April 2, 1998
In Brazil Tobacco Country, Conglomerates Rule
By DIANA JEAN SCHEMO
SANTA CRUZ DO SUL, Brazil -- When Blasio and Claire Lehman were married
here 22 years ago, farmers could build a future on tobacco. Four years
after their wedding, they bought a piece of land. A few harvests later
On Tue, 30 Dec 1997, Doug Henwood wrote:
If S Korea can't make it, it's hard to imagine any "Third World" country
from joining the First.
Very true. The South Korean smash-up has the added piquancy of being the
first truly global neoliberal bailout: something like 70-75% of Korea's
$120
Louis Proyect wrote:
If capitalism has failed in South Korea, then what model can possibly be
offered to developing nations.
Latin America, of course. This theme has been richly developed by Stephen
Fidler of the Financial Times, who a few weeks ago had a big op-ed piece
pointing to the Latin
faces
imminent doom with the financial collapse of the company. I am getting the
picture that South Korea is going through some sort of devolution that
perhaps was inevitable.
It reminds me of what sort of rosy expectations were raised about Brazil in
the early 70s. At that time Brazil was viewed
The Communist Party of Brazil (CPdoB), led by Joao Amazonas,
celebrated its 75th anniversary on March 25, 1997. CPdoB is one
of the few parties in the world which, at the time of the rise of
revisionism in the Soviet Union, did not succumb to its
pressures, neither adopting Khruschevite
the middle of discussion... I f you can help us, I thank
you a lot. We need information : name of books, people to talk around the
world, things like this.
Yours,
Flavio Lofiego
Rua Marques de Abrantes, 172 / 903 A
Flamengo zip code 22230-060
Rio de Janeiro - BRAZIL
Eric Nilsson
Department of
There was a request recently on pen-l for info on the situation on Brazil.
I am therefore forwarding a few posts I have received on another list. I
hope I'm not duplicating info already received.
Brenda Belokrinicev
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I received a bounced copy of a copyrighted newsletter giving details
about the massacre in Brazil. But I'm
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