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...This has changed our reality.' DILMA ROUSSEFF, chief of staff for Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, on the discovery of huge oil reserves off the nation's coast that could turn Brazil into one of the world's biggest oil producers...
...enraged middle class took to the streets. The country went through five Presidents in just two weeks. Wall Street feared that the crisis, one of the worst in South America's history, would spread next door to giant Brazil--where the élite predicted financial ruin if Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, head of the left-wing Workers' Party, was elected President that year--and even to stable Chile, where executives groused over glasses of Chilean Cabernet Sauvignon that the U.S. Congress might block Santiago's free-trade pact with Washington...
DILMA ROUSSEFF, chief of staff for Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, on the discovery of huge oil reserves off the nation's coast that could turn Brazil into one of the world's biggest oil producers...
...Summoning Spirits? I was disappointed to see Brazil's President, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, cast alongside Hugo Chávez - a clearly paranoid and delusional man - as simply another "leftist anti-Yanqui" South American leader [Oct. 8]. It seems that Tim Padgett is more interested in stirring the old ghosts of anti-commie sentiment, which in South America led to the disastrous and brutal rule of the U.S.-backed military juntas (from which many countries are still reeling), than in presenting us with an accurate account of current politics. Pedro Morais, Lisbon...
...Although the AFL-CIO, the nation's largest umbrella union, has remained neutral on the treaties, many unions - including the machinists, the Teamsters and the textile and service unions - came out strongly against the announced agreement. For the last six months they've run advertisements, sent letters, lobbied Congress, all to convince Democrats they shouldn't be handing Bush what some called...