Brazil's Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva confident about Dilma Rousseff's re-election

[Judi Lynn]

Brazil's Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva confident about Dilma Rousseff's re-election
Tuesday, 13 May 2014 - 10:33am IST | Agency: IANS

Former Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has said that incumbent Dilma Rousseff will be re-elected in October, regardless of whether or not host nation Brazil wins this summer's World Cup football tournament.

"I think that Rousseff is going to win the elections because she's the most prepared candidate, with the best proposals and extraordinary experience in governing," Lula told the A Tarde daily Monday regarding his protege and successor.

Brazilians will go to the polls Oct 5 and Rousseff so far is leading in all the pre-election surveys, where some 37 percent of those polled say they intend to vote for her versus 20 percent for main challenger Aecio Neves.

Lula, Brazil's most popular and influential politician, intends to throw himself fully into Rousseff's re-election campaign, which will kick off in July, immediately after the World Cup concludes.

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[Submariner]

1. And DU'ers going to the World Cup please don't SCREAM when you are being robbed

How nice of the Policia to be thinking about our safety.

http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-27373457

Brazil: Police warn visitors, 'Don't scream if robbed'

Brazilian police have put together a pamphlet of top tips for staying safe during the World Cup next month, with suggestions such as making sure not to scream if someone tries to rob you, it is reported.

"Do not react, scream or argue," says the brochure, which will be handed out by Brazilian embassies and consulates, Estadao de Sao Paulo newspaper reports. Sao Paulo police, who reportedly put together the document, are aiming their security tips at football fans planning to attend the World Cup tournament that kicks off in June.

The idea is apparently to warn visitors not to provoke robbers into further violence, and avoid the increasingly common crime of "latrocinios" - or robbery that ends in murder. "Tourists come mainly from Europe and the United States, where they do not see this crime very often," says Mario Leite, who is in charge of World Cup security in Sao Paulo.

Tourists are also advised not to flaunt valuable objects that might attract robbers, to be careful at night, make sure they are with other people and to check nobody is following them. The guidelines might sound extreme, but police officer Mario Leite says they are there to deal with realities on the ground. "There is no use crying over spilt milk," he says.

[Peace Patriot]

2. We have mass shootings here for no reason at all...

...and people would be advised not to put their young children in school without bodyguards, not to run in marathons, not to send young people to college or high school, not to visit movie theaters, malls, fastfood joints, workplaces, post offices or military bases--just to mention a few of the places our crazed shooters have opened up in, and will certainly do so again. Nearly everybody's got a gun here (or a trunkful of them). We're all armed and ready to shoot it out with the crazed shooters, in our kindergartens or wherever; and some of us are armed and ready to shoot it out with phantoms of our imagination. So, LOOK OUT, VISITORS! GET READY TO DODGE SOME BULLETS!

Welcome to the United States of Gun Violence!

Why are you pissing on Brazil?

Because they have some rather typical industrialized-world problems of street crime? Let me clue you in: They are not alone, and nobody...but nobody...in the civilized world tolerates the massive gun ownership and CONSEQUENT mass killings that we tolerate here and that some call "freedom." The "freedom" to have your tiny tot blown away in pre-school! The freedom to have your legs blown off in a marathon! The freedom to be shot anytime, anywhere, for no reason.

Visas to the U.S. should have warning labels on them, and by God, the police OUGHT to tell people that they will be surrounded with weapons and potential psychotics bearing arms, EVERYWHERE they go!

So why criticize Brazilian police for giving realistic advice to visitors about theft and possible violence?

And what does this have to do with Dilma Rousseff heading for re-election?

[Judi Lynn]

3. I'm also reminded of other public bombings in the U.S., like the summer Olympics in Atlanta,

the attempted bombing at a parade in Washington very recently, bombings at womens' health clinics, and the very old, OLD habit our racists have with burning down the churches, homes, etc. of African Americans, and the endless attacks on people of all colors except glow-in-the-dark white.

It IS everywhere you go, and even with you while you're going there in the form of murderous road rage, and people who simply shoot at people in cars to kill them for the hell of it.

Somehow, I've never connected any of our violence to our sitting President at any time, have you?

Where do they get these clowns, anyway?

[Zorro]

4. "...typical industrialized-world problems of street crime?"

I think you're seriously minimizing the degree of street crime in Brazil and many other South American countries.

It really isn't comparable to the level of street crime in the US.

[Marksman_91]

5. Mass shootings don't happen often in the US

They tend to be rare isolated incidents committed by a random mental nutcase. Crime in Latin America, on the other hand, happens often and in many streets, no matter what city it is, and they are committed by petty thugs and gangbangers, not people with mental prooblems. The murder rates in these countries are much higher than the US has. Stop trying to compare both situations, because they sure as hell are not the same. The amount of people that die from mass shootings in the US per year does not even come close to the amount of people that get murdered on a daily basis in countries like Brazil, Venezuela, etc.

[Peace Patriot]

6. Mass shootings are NOT rare in the U.S.!

We just had another one--in Santa Barbara, CA. People going bonkers, with easy access to high-powered weapons, shooting others for no reason at all. Shooting MANY others. Shooting random strangers.

It is a phenomenon. It seems to happen every other week! We EXPECT it to happen. We TOLERATE it happening. It is mind-boggling how often it happens, with NOTHING BEING DONE, on any front--neither gun control, nor psychiatric care, nor social mobilization to end the culture of violence.

And I have to ask, where do you live? There are sections of our cities that are drenched in blood, often of innocents. EVERY DAY.

Then there are the police shootings--of people who don't deserve to die, who are no threat. With the police always exonerated, never held accountable.

Then there are executions--of people whose convictions were very questionable. Even the executions of the guilty are executions--that is, state murders. Do you count them in your statistics?

And what about the disappeared? They don't make it to the murder statistics.

I think you are very much underestimating the problem of violence in this society.

[Paolo123]

7. I don't think it is typical at all.

The incredible amounts of street crime are the direct result of the long history of governments and the upper classes momopolizing the land and forcing the masses into slums where they have no hope.f