Economia
- A Setback In Brazil.
Just a couple of years ago, it was widely concluded that Brazil had finally overcome the decades-old gibe about the world’s fifth-largest country: that it would always be “the country of the future.” Exports, particularly to Asia, were booming;...
- Direto Do The New York Times Editorial Board: Brazil’s Next Steps.
After a decade of fast growth and rising incomes, Brazil has hit a rough patch that is testing its government’s ability to manage the economy and satisfy the growing aspirations of its people. President Dilma Rousseff, who faces elections next year,...
- President Dilma Rousseff.
President Obama met with President Obama met with President Dilma Rousseff of Brazil today to discuss the bilateral relationship between the two countries. The United States and Brazil are the two largest economies and democracies in the...
- Brasil Visto Do Exterior
Brazil's President Is Running Scared May 16, 2014 12:08 PM EDT By Raul Gallegos ... Rousseff’s electoral bread-and-circus tactics suggest the brand of paternalistic politics Brazil can expect if...
- O Futuro Do Brasil
Brazil’s future Has Brazil blown it? A stagnant economy, a bloated state and mass protests mean Dilma Rousseff must change course Redeemer ascending like a rocket from Rio de Janeiro’s Corcovado mountain, under the rubric “Brazil takes off”....
Economia
The New Yorker - Dilma Rousseff.
A reporter at large about Brazilian President
Dilma Rousseff. Until recently, Brazil has been one of the most uneducated,
economically imbalanced countries in the world. Now its economy is growing much
more rapidly than that of the U.S. Twenty-eight million Brazilians have moved
out of severe poverty in the past decade. The country has a balanced budget, low
national debt, nearly full employment, and low inflation. It is, chaotically,
democratic, and it has a free press. Brazil operates in ways we have been
conditioned to think are incompatible with a successful free society. It isn’t
just that Brazil is ruled by unapologetic former revolutionaries, many of
whom—including the President—were imprisoned for years for being terrorists.
The central government is far more powerful and intrusive than it is in the
U.S. It is also far more corrupt. Crime is high, schools are weak, roads are
bad, and ports barely function. And yet, among the world’s major economic
powers, Brazil has achieved a rare trifecta: high growth, political freedom,
and falling inequality. The President, Dilma Rousseff, is a forceful presence.
As part of the Palmares Armed Revolutionary Vanguard, she spent years in prison
and was subjected to torture. Her first major Presidential initiative, Brasil
Sem Miséria, unveiled in June, was a sweeping anti-poverty program. The U.S.
constantly seems to be on Rousseff’s mind, as an example of how not to handle
the global economic crisis. Politics in Brazil revolves around Rousseff’s
predecessor, Luis Inácio Lula da Silva, known to Brazilians and the rest of the
world simply as Lula. For the last five of Lula’s eight years as President,
Rousseff served as his Minister of the Civil House. Lula anointed her as his
successor in 2010. Describes the political history of Brazil. Mentions
President Fernando Henrique Cardoso. The writer describes his visit with Lula in
São Paulo. Brazil will be hosting the World Cup, in 2014, and the Olympics, in
2016. Rousseff, now sixty-three, was a university student during the 1964 coup
that established Brazil’s military dictatorship, and she quickly became
radicalized. By the late sixties, she was married to another militant, Cláudio
Galeno Linhares. They lived in hiding, storing and transporting caches of guns,
bombs, and stolen money, planning and executing “actions.” Later, she left
Galeno for Carlos Araújo, another prominent militant. In early 1970, the
military caught up with her, and she spent three years in prison, where she was
reportedly subjected to extensive torture. She insists she was never personally
involved in violent actions during her militant days. After she was released,
she went to graduate school in economics and then worked in a think tank. She
joined the mainline political party, the Partido Democrático Trabalhista
(P.D.T.), and soon began working in government positions in Porto Alegre.
Eventually, she met with Lula and so impressed him that he appointed her
Secretary of Energy in his administration. Mentions the numerous scandals which
have plagued Rousseff’s administration. Nobody believes that Rousseff is
corrupt, but she had worked for years with some of the people who resigned.
Describes the writer’s visit with Rousseff.
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- A Setback In Brazil.
Just a couple of years ago, it was widely concluded that Brazil had finally overcome the decades-old gibe about the world’s fifth-largest country: that it would always be “the country of the future.” Exports, particularly to Asia, were booming;...
- Direto Do The New York Times Editorial Board: Brazil’s Next Steps.
After a decade of fast growth and rising incomes, Brazil has hit a rough patch that is testing its government’s ability to manage the economy and satisfy the growing aspirations of its people. President Dilma Rousseff, who faces elections next year,...
- President Dilma Rousseff.
President Obama met with President Obama met with President Dilma Rousseff of Brazil today to discuss the bilateral relationship between the two countries. The United States and Brazil are the two largest economies and democracies in the...
- Brasil Visto Do Exterior
Brazil's President Is Running Scared May 16, 2014 12:08 PM EDT By Raul Gallegos ... Rousseff’s electoral bread-and-circus tactics suggest the brand of paternalistic politics Brazil can expect if...
- O Futuro Do Brasil
Brazil’s future Has Brazil blown it? A stagnant economy, a bloated state and mass protests mean Dilma Rousseff must change course Redeemer ascending like a rocket from Rio de Janeiro’s Corcovado mountain, under the rubric “Brazil takes off”....