Brazil set to elect ex-guerrilla as president

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Brazil set to elect ex-guerrilla as president
By BRADLEY BROOKS
The Associated Press
Sunday, October 31, 2010; 2:39 PM

SAO PAULO -- A former Marxist guerrilla who was tortured and imprisoned during Brazil's long dictatorship was heavily favored to be elected Sunday as the president of Latin America's largest nation, a country in the midst of a dynamic economic and political rise.

Dilma Rousseff, the hand-chosen successor to wildly popular President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, cemented her image to Silva's, whose policies she promises to continue. Barring a surprise comeback by her centrist rival Jose Serra, she will become Brazil's first female leader.

Whoever takes power after Silva exits on Jan. 1 will lead a nation on the rise, a country that will host the 2014 World Cup and that is expected to be the globe's fifth-largest economy by the time it hosts the 2016 Summer Olympics. It has also recently discovered massive oil reserves off its coast.

Both contenders are economists by training.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/31/AR2010103101015.html

[eleny]

1. K&R

[MisterP]

2. ohhh, Kissinger is going to be SO mad. good! nt

[leveymg]

3. I hope that Kissinger lives to see ALL of Latin America go Marxist.

Despite his inhuman efforts to hold back history.

[lunatica]

6. Marxist?

I'd call it populist, but what do I know.

[leveymg]

11. That's how we were labeled during the Cold War era. Today, populist or Leftist works, and is

a whole lot less likely to get you killed.

Some of us around here lived through both stages of history.

[Judi Lynn]

7. No one cares less about their fellow men/women than US Republicans.

It's still like getting hit by a bus remembering Kissinger was awarded a NOBEL GODDAMNED PRIZE.

We should have known something was up a long time ago.

[dipsydoodle]

4. Go girl

Sit on that Kissenger.

[Judi Lynn]

5. Love that image! She should have used it in her campaign against right-wing scumball Jose Serra!

http://a.abcnews.com.nyud.net:8090/images/International/7e890d7b58c2402ba50e04a07858aa83_mn.jpg http://www.vooz.com.br.nyud.net:8090/userfiles/image/Jos%C3%A9%20Wilson/dilma-e-serra-elei%C3%A7%C3%B5es%20-%202010%20-%20ibop.jpg

Dilma Rousseff, and the right-wing yutz, Jose Serra.

http://www.treehugger.com.nyud.net:8090/Schwarzenegger-and-serra.jpg

Serra and Schwarzenegger. Hope they won't be back.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

10. I'm SO stealing that!

:bounce:

[dipsydoodle]

13. Just noticed where you are -

hadn't checked before.

:hi:

[CHIMO]

8. Hmm?

Maybe the headline should be.

Former Freedom Fighter elected as president of largest American(South American) government!

[robdogbucky]

9. She just won

I was surprised to learn she was more than a former Marxist. And I did not know that voting is mandatory in Brazil, penalties of fines and/or no passport upon application, etc. Food for thought. What do people think of nudging citizens to vote like this? I sure would like to see some verifiable, equitable way for everyone to at least cast their vote, whether they care or not.


Rousseff is elected as Brazil's next president
By BRADLEY BROOKS, Associated Press

"...Rousseff was a key player in an armed militant group that resisted the 1964-1985 military dictatorship and was imprisoned and tortured for it. She is a cancer survivor and a former minister of energy and chief of staff to Silva.

Serra also battled the dictatorship, but through politics rather than armed resistance. He headed a national student group that opposed the regime and was forced into exile in Chile in 1965 before heading to the U.S., where he earned a doctorate in economics at Cornell...

...Under Brazilian law, voting is mandatory for citizens between the ages of 18 and 70. Not voting could result in a small fine and make it impossible to obtain a passport or a government job, among other penalties."

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/10/30/international/i233035D84.DTL



Hands off my Social Security!
Hands off Latin America!




Just my dos centavos


robdogbucky

[leveymg]

12. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Vive la Internacional Vive Brazil !!!!!!!!!!!

[Blue_Tires]

14. kick

[conspirator]

15. There is nothing left wing about brazil. It's quite a corrupt capitalist society

with a strong economic and even racial apartheid.
If you are born poor you can't even afford college.