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Lula President of Brazil
Known as Lula in his native Brazil he like so many working class leaders when swept to power the task of effecting promised reforms has proven more difficult than imagined. As always trying to eliminate poverty, improve education and provide medical care is opposed by the rich and powerful.
Capitalism has no morality! The establishment hate losing power and oppose reforms every step of the way. Look to Venezuela, Bolivia and the most powerful (for now anyway) nation on earth the United States of America for more evidence.
A socialist hero who has advanced poor Brazilians up a few notches but has much more to do.
I like Michael Moore’s short profile of Lula sampled here: “When Brazilians first elected Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva President in 2002, the country’s robber barons nervously checked the fuel gauges on their private jets. They had turned Brazil into one of the most inequitable places on earth, and now it looked like payback time. Lula, 64, was a genuine son of Latin America’s working class — in fact, a founding member of the Workers’ Party — who’d once been jailed for leading a strike.”
Read more: The 2010 TIME 100
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