Lula is certain that Senate will approve Venezuela's membership in Mercosur

[Judi Lynn]

CARACAS, Monday September 14, 2009
Lula is certain that Senate will approve Venezuela's membership in Mercosur

During an interview with daily newspaper Folha de Boa Vista, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said that with Venezuela in Mercosur, the states of northern Brazil will be benefitted from increasing trade.

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said on Monday he is confident that the Brazilian Senate will approve Venezuela's entry into the Common Market of the South (Mercosur).

During an interview with daily newspaper Folha de Boa Vista, Lula said that with Venezuela in Mercosur, the states of northern Brazil will be benefitted from increasing trade.

"There is not opposition of the Senate to Venezuela's entry into Mercosur," Lula said in the interview, AP quoted.

"The proposal was already analyzed and approved by the Chamber of Deputies. I am positive that the Senate will pass it also," Lula said.

http://english.eluniversal.com/2009/09/14/en_eco_esp_lula-is-certain-that_14A2738167.shtml
Opposition newspaper

[Peace Patriot]

1. In the next sentence, El Universal editorializes like the corpo/fascist 'news' monopoly they are,

thus:

"'There is not opposition of the Senate to Venezuela's entry into Mercosur,' Lula said in the interview, AP quoted.

"'The proposal was already analyzed and approved by the Chamber of Deputies. I am positive that the Senate will pass it also,' Lula said.

"However, opposition lawmakers are at odds with Venezuela joining the customs association, which also includes Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay, as they are afraid that Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez could have a negative influence on the bloc.

"The Parliaments of Argentina and Uruguay already approved Venezuela's membership, but it is still pending for approval at the Paraguayan and Brazilian Congresses."

--from the OP

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They quote Lulu, and then THE JOURNALIST contradicts him but provides no quotes, no names, just the unattributed OPINION: "However, opposition lawmakers are at odds" with Lulu. If they want to call Lulu a liar, they have to quote opposition lawmakerS who oppose it. This "however" calls Lulu a liar--outright, from El Universal to Lulu. So what was their problem this time, with implementing decent journalism standards. Too lazy? Their 'journalist' doesn't know dick about the Brazilian legislature? They couldn't find any opposition lawmakers who would go on record as opposing it? What? If the latter, they need to say "SPEAKING ANONYMOUSLY, opposition legislatorS expressed their view" opposing Venezuela's membership in Mercosur. There has to be SOME track between journalist and source. To contradict the president of the country--or anybody, for that matter--without some kind of sourcing is not only insulting and disrespectful, it is BAD journalism.

And to then add this bullshit about Chavez--again with no attribution (are the opposition lawmakers too cowardly to own up to their lying, fascist bullshit--or what?)--is over the cliff of bad journalism and into propaganda, brainwashing and the control of public opinion. THE JOURNALIST knows that "opposition lawmakers" are AFRAID? How does he know this? How does he know what they are feeling? WHO said this?

The legislatures of Argentina and Uruguay already approved it. Lulu says Brazil will approve it. Paraguay will more than likely follow suit. Brazil has been a real friend to Paraguay (Lulu got Brazilian corps to agree to renegotiate Paraguay's hydroelectric contracts in Paraguay's favor, for instance). And here comes El Universal saying, no, no, no, our scumbag fascists in Brazil's Senate are "afraid." Who are they to say this?

[Downwinder]

2. Another CIA mouthpiece? n/t