THE GLOBAL ELITE

18: Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

President, Brazil

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  • Posted By: TinaBrasil @ 12/31/2008 2:29:47 AM

    Hi again, Newsweek!
    Look, it shouldn´t be allowed to post the SAME comment more than once. It's not democratical, huh? No matter the opinion, people who post the same over and over are trying to impose their will. Don´t you think so? People should be free for writing as many times as they want, but not "control + C, control + V"!
    Thank you.

  • Posted By: vanadias @ 12/28/2008 8:02:44 AM

    Veja nossa SITUAÇÃO...
    Todos querem mais dinheiro (Eu quero apenas um EMPREGO) porém ninguém ENXERGA a situação do POVO, o que poderia melhorar? Perplexidade não define exatamente o que eu quero demonstrar, mas ajuda a entender a banalidade de políticos prometerem muito para simplesmente conseguir se eleger. O atual governo perseguiu, enquanto oposição, as medidas que trouxesse a Reforma Tributária, discursou enquanto candidato que isso seria uma de sua medidas mais urgentes para um Brasil atrasado injusto com o contribuinte, principalmente aqueles a quem ele tanto bajula, os que ganham pouco.
    Nunca houve tanto desfalque nos cofres públicos como nesta gestão, nunca houve tantos escândalos e desprezo ao povo brasileiro,
    Este governo se acha notável por ter "criado" o Bolsa família, mas ele verdadeiramente não teria sido mais eficiente, recriando uma forma do povo aprender a conquistar suas coisas e não ter que gastar ainda mais dinheiro público de uma forma nem um pouco construtiva? Dar essa pequena quantia não estimula o povo a pensar a querer conquistar a estudar a desenvolver raciocínio, pelo contrário... Esses pobres coitados se escoram cada vez mais na máquina pública, onerando ainda mais o orçamento e fazendo com que seja criado cada vez mais imposto para cobrir tantos gastos mal planejados.
    A Educação deste País é a base de qualquer pessoa, com ela em dia os índices de criminalidade tendem a cair à saúde pode obter mais ajuda com planejamentos familiares e instrução no comportamento popular frente ao saneamento básico, e, portanto evita-se epidemias de doenças como a dengue, por exemplo.
    Um País injusto em que o povo só exerce a cidadania no dia de escolher seu candidato, nos outros dias é humilhado sem, muitas vezes, ter a dignidade de ter um trabalho para poder pagar suas contas, e viver. Pq atualmente sobrevivemos... Nosso dinheiro envolvido em bolsos, escândalos e rombos, ao invés de serem empregados no que lhe é função? Em um País injusto a CIDADANIA só EXISTE, no dia da eleições, posteriormente já foram abandonados. Em um país injusto o povo paga Tributos e Impostos aos kilos e não tem retorno de nada, ainda por cima tem que pagar plano de saúde particular, escolas para os filhos, seguro de automóvel e casa por causa da insegurança não garantida pelo ESTADO..... Este País é o Brasil e precisa deixar de ser INJUSTO para otrabalhador produz dinheiro e os políticos fazem Golpes nos cofres públicos sendo pagos pelo trabalhador. Qual é o melhor caminho para a Cidadania verdadeira? JUSTIÇA PARA O Povo, o Trabalhador.
    Silvana Moraes!!!!
    Campinas / SP

  • Posted By: fjbmorais @ 12/26/2008 3:57:05 PM

    It's worth reading the article "The New New Deal - Now is the Time for Politics" written by President Lula in the Newsweek's Special Edition - Issues 2009. As a Brazilian I'm very proud of having my President influencing in avery positive way the draft of a New World's Order. Brazil is ready to take its responsibilities in order to help the creation of a better world.

    Francisco Morais
    Campinas - Brazil

  • Posted By: fjbmorais @ 12/26/2008 3:54:02 PM

    It's worth reading the article "The New New Deal - Now is the Time for Politics" written by President Lula in the Newsweek's Special Edition - Issues 2009. As a Brazilian I'm very proud of having my President influencing in avery positive way de draft of a New World's Order. Brazil is ready to take its responsibilities in order to help the creation of a better world.

  • Posted By: JohnArbacol @ 12/24/2008 1:14:22 PM

    Dear Luis Gustavo,

    It seems that Lula isn`t the only one who cannot speak english properly. Your comment is full of elementary mistakes.
    Not even president Bush is able to spell a phrase in english without mistakes. The number 2 on the list, president Sarkozy is also a shamefull english speaker.
    Does it mean that because their english proficiency they are less effective leaders? Give me a break!
    If you don`t like Lula, you will have a chance to vote for the opposition in 2010. Be a democrat and wait for your turn.

  • Posted By: PauloF @ 12/23/2008 9:06:00 PM

    I???m Brazilian, and I know exactly why so many Brazilians voted twice for Lula. ???Cause he???s doing well, he???s a democrat and he made their lives better. It???s that simple. A former worker can be a very good president. Face it.

  • Posted By: Lara Penteado @ 12/23/2008 11:49:42 AM

    I really disagree with Newsweek. Lula is terrible as our president (I´m Brazilian). He is only somebody lucky who was on the right place in the right time DOING NOTHING. He is very populist with speaches to deceive the poor people in this country. I still can´t believe our people vote for this man and he represents our nation all over the world. I won´t discuss de fact he doesn´t speak English. Let´s just imagine what tipe of president a man that doesn´t know how to write or read in his own language is. If Newsweek editors could spend one month living here as a Brazilian (not as a tourist) I´m sure Lula´s place would change in this list.
    Regards

    • Posted By: giovannimorici @ 12/23/2008 6:39:22 PM

      Some people think onlly the elite should govern

    • Posted By: giovannimorici @ 12/23/2008 6:33:51 PM

      Some people think onlly the elite should govern

  • Posted By: followup @ 12/23/2008 11:57:56 AM

    Lula is a great president. He took bold steps in economic policy, paid off Brazil's foreign debt, and thanks to him the letters "IMF" sound like echoes from a distant past. All this while he introduced social reforms that lifted tens of millions of Brazilians into the middle class, while keeping inflation under control. I think the full importance of his government will only be completely understood a half century from now.

  • Posted By: brito83 @ 12/23/2008 9:41:09 AM

    President Lula is the best of the best. me and my family we want lula again

    Regards

    Gilmar Brito

  • Posted By: brito83 @ 12/23/2008 9:39:45 AM

    Lula is the best of the best. Me and my family we want lula again.

  • Posted By: Luís Gustavo @ 12/23/2008 8:22:25 AM

    I´m really surprise for two big reasons. Well Luiz Inacio, my President, I´m from Brazil, well first, he can´t read this page about him, because he doesn´t know other languages, on the true, he doesn´t know his natural language the Portuguese. Other reason, Lula is a kind of populist and clown in the Presidency. I
    I´m so disappointed with this intelligent and famous magazine. Not only because selected Lula as a popular and powerful person, this is a big lie and a thundering wrong of this intelligent magazine.
    I repeat, this was a big and thundering wrong, select Lula as an powerful person. He is a shame, never wanted to study, he loves to drink beer and vodka, he can´t talk with the intelligent people that read this greates magazine.
    I´m sorry but, the Editors of Newswweek had commited a wrong selecting a man who is a shame for us, the brazilian people. He´s a shame for us, that we have him as our President, a man who plays and travels on the bad moments, in this time of contraction and crisis he only plays, he is a shame, he doesn´t know nothing about enviroment, about economy ou international politics.
    I´m disappointed with this big magazine, I´m disappointed with the brazilian people who elected him to more four years of exaggerated expenses, of parties, of travels, always laughing of the brazilian people, he couldn´t be a powerful perso, he has to be a shame for Brazil, for my country, for the brazilian people, my country is ashemed looking for this election and see a man who didn´t make nothing for change my country.
    He dida lot of populism and travels with our first lady, including to the USA, Antarctica and India. Ladies and Gentlemen my president Lula is a shame for my country, bcause he has the most important job of my nation, represent us, did he do this? Did he know about his mission on his job? I´m sorry but Lula didnt catch Brazil in the ruin, ´he is in leading it.

    Since already
    I´m disappointed with Newsweek, I always read this magazine, but Lula as a powerful and hero man, I´m orry, you´re lying.

    Thank you.

  • Posted By: Luís Gustavo @ 12/23/2008 8:22:10 AM

    I´m really surprise for two big reasons. Well Luiz Inacio, my President, I´m from Brazil, well first, he can´t read this page about him, because he doesn´t know other languages, on the true, he doesn´t know his natural language the Portuguese. Other reason, Lula is a kind of populist and clown in the Presidency. I
    I´m so disappointed with this intelligent and famous magazine. Not only because selected Lula as a popular and powerful person, this is a big lie and a thundering wrong of this intelligent magazine.
    I repeat, this was a big and thundering wrong, select Lula as an powerful person. He is a shame, never wanted to study, he loves to drink beer and vodka, he can´t talk with the intelligent people that read this greates magazine.
    I´m sorry but, the Editors of Newswweek had commited a wrong selecting a man who is a shame for us, the brazilian people. He´s a shame for us, that we have him as our President, a man who plays and travels on the bad moments, in this time of contraction and crisis he only plays, he is a shame, he doesn´t know nothing about enviroment, about economy ou international politics.
    I´m disappointed with this big magazine, I´m disappointed with the brazilian people who elected him to more four years of exaggerated expenses, of parties, of travels, always laughing of the brazilian people, he couldn´t be a powerful perso, he has to be a shame for Brazil, for my country, for the brazilian people, my country is ashemed looking for this election and see a man who didn´t make nothing for change my country.
    He dida lot of populism and travels with our first lady, including to the USA, Antarctica and India. Ladies and Gentlemen my president Lula is a shame for my country, bcause he has the most important job of my nation, represent us, did he do this? Did he know about his mission on his job? I´m sorry but Lula didnt catch Brazil in the ruin, ´he is in leading it.

    Since already
    I´m disappointed with Newsweek, I always read this magazine, but Lula as a powerful and hero man, I´m orry, you´re lying.

    Thank you.

  • Posted By: Luís Gustavo @ 12/23/2008 8:21:59 AM

    I´m really surprise for two big reasons. Well Luiz Inacio, my President, I´m from Brazil, well first, he can´t read this page about him, because he doesn´t know other languages, on the true, he doesn´t know his natural language the Portuguese. Other reason, Lula is a kind of populist and clown in the Presidency. I
    I´m so disappointed with this intelligent and famous magazine. Not only because selected Lula as a popular and powerful person, this is a big lie and a thundering wrong of this intelligent magazine.
    I repeat, this was a big and thundering wrong, select Lula as an powerful person. He is a shame, never wanted to study, he loves to drink beer and vodka, he can´t talk with the intelligent people that read this greates magazine.
    I´m sorry but, the Editors of Newswweek had commited a wrong selecting a man who is a shame for us, the brazilian people. He´s a shame for us, that we have him as our President, a man who plays and travels on the bad moments, in this time of contraction and crisis he only plays, he is a shame, he doesn´t know nothing about enviroment, about economy ou international politics.
    I´m disappointed with this big magazine, I´m disappointed with the brazilian people who elected him to more four years of exaggerated expenses, of parties, of travels, always laughing of the brazilian people, he couldn´t be a powerful perso, he has to be a shame for Brazil, for my country, for the brazilian people, my country is ashemed looking for this election and see a man who didn´t make nothing for change my country.
    He dida lot of populism and travels with our first lady, including to the USA, Antarctica and India. Ladies and Gentlemen my president Lula is a shame for my country, bcause he has the most important job of my nation, represent us, did he do this? Did he know about his mission on his job? I´m sorry but Lula didnt catch Brazil in the ruin, ´he is in leading it.

    Since already
    I´m disappointed with Newsweek, I always read this magazine, but Lula as a powerful and hero man, I´m orry, you´re lying.

    Thank you.

  • Posted By: Luís Gustavo @ 12/23/2008 8:21:50 AM

    I´m really surprise for two big reasons. Well Luiz Inacio, my President, I´m from Brazil, well first, he can´t read this page about him, because he doesn´t know other languages, on the true, he doesn´t know his natural language the Portuguese. Other reason, Lula is a kind of populist and clown in the Presidency. I
    I´m so disappointed with this intelligent and famous magazine. Not only because selected Lula as a popular and powerful person, this is a big lie and a thundering wrong of this intelligent magazine.
    I repeat, this was a big and thundering wrong, select Lula as an powerful person. He is a shame, never wanted to study, he loves to drink beer and vodka, he can´t talk with the intelligent people that read this greates magazine.
    I´m sorry but, the Editors of Newswweek had commited a wrong selecting a man who is a shame for us, the brazilian people. He´s a shame for us, that we have him as our President, a man who plays and travels on the bad moments, in this time of contraction and crisis he only plays, he is a shame, he doesn´t know nothing about enviroment, about economy ou international politics.
    I´m disappointed with this big magazine, I´m disappointed with the brazilian people who elected him to more four years of exaggerated expenses, of parties, of travels, always laughing of the brazilian people, he couldn´t be a powerful perso, he has to be a shame for Brazil, for my country, for the brazilian people, my country is ashemed looking for this election and see a man who didn´t make nothing for change my country.
    He dida lot of populism and travels with our first lady, including to the USA, Antarctica and India. Ladies and Gentlemen my president Lula is a shame for my country, bcause he has the most important job of my nation, represent us, did he do this? Did he know about his mission on his job? I´m sorry but Lula didnt catch Brazil in the ruin, ´he is in leading it.

    Since already
    I´m disappointed with Newsweek, I always read this magazine, but Lula as a powerful and hero man, I´m orry, you´re lying.

    Thank you.

  • Posted By: Luís Gustavo @ 12/23/2008 8:21:39 AM

    I´m really surprise for two big reasons. Well Luiz Inacio, my President, I´m from Brazil, well first, he can´t read this page about him, because he doesn´t know other languages, on the true, he doesn´t know his natural language the Portuguese. Other reason, Lula is a kind of populist and clown in the Presidency. I
    I´m so disappointed with this intelligent and famous magazine. Not only because selected Lula as a popular and powerful person, this is a big lie and a thundering wrong of this intelligent magazine.
    I repeat, this was a big and thundering wrong, select Lula as an powerful person. He is a shame, never wanted to study, he loves to drink beer and vodka, he can´t talk with the intelligent people that read this greates magazine.
    I´m sorry but, the Editors of Newswweek had commited a wrong selecting a man who is a shame for us, the brazilian people. He´s a shame for us, that we have him as our President, a man who plays and travels on the bad moments, in this time of contraction and crisis he only plays, he is a shame, he doesn´t know nothing about enviroment, about economy ou international politics.
    I´m disappointed with this big magazine, I´m disappointed with the brazilian people who elected him to more four years of exaggerated expenses, of parties, of travels, always laughing of the brazilian people, he couldn´t be a powerful perso, he has to be a shame for Brazil, for my country, for the brazilian people, my country is ashemed looking for this election and see a man who didn´t make nothing for change my country.
    He dida lot of populism and travels with our first lady, including to the USA, Antarctica and India. Ladies and Gentlemen my president Lula is a shame for my country, bcause he has the most important job of my nation, represent us, did he do this? Did he know about his mission on his job? I´m sorry but Lula didnt catch Brazil in the ruin, ´he is in leading it.

    Since already
    I´m disappointed with Newsweek, I always read this magazine, but Lula as a powerful and hero man, I´m orry, you´re lying.

    Thank you.

  • Posted By: Luís Gustavo @ 12/23/2008 8:21:08 AM

    I´m really surprise for two big reasons. Well Luiz Inacio, my President, I´m from Brazil, well first, he can´t read this page about him, because he doesn´t know other languages, on the true, he doesn´t know his natural language the Portuguese. Other reason, Lula is a kind of populist and clown in the Presidency. I
    I´m so disappointed with this intelligent and famous magazine. Not only because selected Lula as a popular and powerful person, this is a big lie and a thundering wrong of this intelligent magazine.
    I repeat, this was a big and thundering wrong, select Lula as an powerful person. He is a shame, never wanted to study, he loves to drink beer and vodka, he can´t talk with the intelligent people that read this greates magazine.
    I´m sorry but, the Editors of Newswweek had commited a wrong selecting a man who is a shame for us, the brazilian people. He´s a shame for us, that we have him as our President, a man who plays and travels on the bad moments, in this time of contraction and crisis he only plays, he is a shame, he doesn´t know nothing about enviroment, about economy ou international politics.
    I´m disappointed with this big magazine, I´m disappointed with the brazilian people who elected him to more four years of exaggerated expenses, of parties, of travels, always laughing of the brazilian people, he couldn´t be a powerful perso, he has to be a shame for Brazil, for my country, for the brazilian people, my country is ashemed looking for this election and see a man who didn´t make nothing for change my country.
    He dida lot of populism and travels with our first lady, including to the USA, Antarctica and India. Ladies and Gentlemen my president Lula is a shame for my country, bcause he has the most important job of my nation, represent us, did he do this? Did he know about his mission on his job? I´m sorry but Lula didnt catch Brazil in the ruin, ´he is in leading it.

    Since already
    I´m disappointed with Newsweek, I always read this magazine, but Lula as a powerful and hero man, I´m orry, you´re lying.

    Thank you.

  • Posted By: Luís Gustavo @ 12/23/2008 8:20:58 AM

    I´m really surprise for two big reasons. Well Luiz Inacio, my President, I´m from Brazil, well first, he can´t read this page about him, because he doesn´t know other languages, on the true, he doesn´t know his natural language the Portuguese. Other reason, Lula is a kind of populist and clown in the Presidency. I
    I´m so disappointed with this intelligent and famous magazine. Not only because selected Lula as a popular and powerful person, this is a big lie and a thundering wrong of this intelligent magazine.
    I repeat, this was a big and thundering wrong, select Lula as an powerful person. He is a shame, never wanted to study, he loves to drink beer and vodka, he can´t talk with the intelligent people that read this greates magazine.
    I´m sorry but, the Editors of Newswweek had commited a wrong selecting a man who is a shame for us, the brazilian people. He´s a shame for us, that we have him as our President, a man who plays and travels on the bad moments, in this time of contraction and crisis he only plays, he is a shame, he doesn´t know nothing about enviroment, about economy ou international politics.
    I´m disappointed with this big magazine, I´m disappointed with the brazilian people who elected him to more four years of exaggerated expenses, of parties, of travels, always laughing of the brazilian people, he couldn´t be a powerful perso, he has to be a shame for Brazil, for my country, for the brazilian people, my country is ashemed looking for this election and see a man who didn´t make nothing for change my country.
    He dida lot of populism and travels with our first lady, including to the USA, Antarctica and India. Ladies and Gentlemen my president Lula is a shame for my country, bcause he has the most important job of my nation, represent us, did he do this? Did he know about his mission on his job? I´m sorry but Lula didnt catch Brazil in the ruin, ´he is in leading it.

    Since already
    I´m disappointed with Newsweek, I always read this magazine, but Lula as a powerful and hero man, I´m orry, you´re lying.

    Thank you.

  • Posted By: Luís Gustavo @ 12/23/2008 8:20:47 AM

    I´m really surprise for two big reasons. Well Luiz Inacio, my President, I´m from Brazil, well first, he can´t read this page about him, because he doesn´t know other languages, on the true, he doesn´t know his natural language the Portuguese. Other reason, Lula is a kind of populist and clown in the Presidency. I
    I´m so disappointed with this intelligent and famous magazine. Not only because selected Lula as a popular and powerful person, this is a big lie and a thundering wrong of this intelligent magazine.
    I repeat, this was a big and thundering wrong, select Lula as an powerful person. He is a shame, never wanted to study, he loves to drink beer and vodka, he can´t talk with the intelligent people that read this greates magazine.
    I´m sorry but, the Editors of Newswweek had commited a wrong selecting a man who is a shame for us, the brazilian people. He´s a shame for us, that we have him as our President, a man who plays and travels on the bad moments, in this time of contraction and crisis he only plays, he is a shame, he doesn´t know nothing about enviroment, about economy ou international politics.
    I´m disappointed with this big magazine, I´m disappointed with the brazilian people who elected him to more four years of exaggerated expenses, of parties, of travels, always laughing of the brazilian people, he couldn´t be a powerful perso, he has to be a shame for Brazil, for my country, for the brazilian people, my country is ashemed looking for this election and see a man who didn´t make nothing for change my country.
    He dida lot of populism and travels with our first lady, including to the USA, Antarctica and India. Ladies and Gentlemen my president Lula is a shame for my country, bcause he has the most important job of my nation, represent us, did he do this? Did he know about his mission on his job? I´m sorry but Lula didnt catch Brazil in the ruin, ´he is in leading it.

    Since already
    I´m disappointed with Newsweek, I always read this magazine, but Lula as a powerful and hero man, I´m orry, you´re lying.

    Thank you.

  • Posted By: Casé de Souza @ 12/23/2008 7:11:35 AM

    the Brazilian press is in depression.

  • Posted By: Casé de Souza @ 12/23/2008 6:56:40 AM

    Yes Lula is really our best president of all the times.
    He is loved by our people, has 80% of approval. And the elite and the media suffer with that. Sorry
    Lula is the best!!

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