From: mayor@bayes.ece.cmu.edu (Gilberto S. Mayor)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.brazil
Subject: BRAZIL
Date: 3 Oct 92 07:21:34 GMT
Article-I.D.: fs7.1992Oct3.072134.18786
Organization: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon

>Thank god that Colar is finished, but what is next for brazil? while everyone
>is happy that Colar is impeached, what else is there to celebrate?

What else ? This is the first time a president lost his power because of
accusations of corruption. Half million people were in front of the
brazilian congress during the impeachment session. Don't you think it is
enough ? O, I forgot, we also won the volleyball gold medal last month
during the olympic games.


>The story of Brazil is like the samba, the words change but the music is the
>same, Inflation, Corruption, Poverty and Crime is the beat to the samba to
>which every Brazillian must dance.
First, obviously you do not understand anything about samba. American
music (Madonna, Be Gees, M. Jacksonn, etc) sounds the same to me,
extremely boring. You should learn how to listen to samba.
And you should understand the lirics. They are great. Have you ever
listened to "Vai Passar" ?

Yes, we have a lot of complex problems, but we are improving. Nowadays
we can even pay our external debt on time.


>Does anyone realy believe that PT will solve any of Brazil's Problems? Will
>he continue to sell off Nationalized Industries? 
Yes, I really think so. PT has proved to be a honest party and its
program include many social improvements for our people like 
spending more money on education and health system.

And I hope it will continue selling non-profit government industries.
But privatization is not our main problem. But maybe it is american main
interest.


>Will he be able to resist
>the overwelming temptation of the corruptors? 
Who knows ? I hope so, but maybe they can have their own Nixxon...

>Will Brazil close its doors
>again to imports to protect industries that cannot compete with the world?
Will USA open its doors to brazilian shoe-makers ? Will Japan open its
doors to USA ? 
If it is our interest we will open it. And we don't need to compete with
the world. We need to improve our education and health system. And if it
is necessary to protect some industries, as USA do, I hope Brasil will
do it.

>Will the Brazillian Giant be able to match the progress made by tiny Argentina
>since it too attained democracy?

We are not competing against Argentina. 

>On my first business trip to Brazil I was traveling with an American shoe
>importer to visit the shoe factories in the South of Brazil on the Southbound
>flight he told me all the impressive statistics that Brazil has to its credit.
>The IMF and World bankers were pumping the billions of dollars in Arab oil
>money deposits into Brazil the belly of the plane was filled with dollars
>and the half the passengers were bankers. After a few drinks my friend said
>to me rember one thing about Brazil "Brazil is the land of the future and it
>always will be." It is only now that I realize what he was really saying. 

First, arabian people are not as rich as they used to be. You
seem to know nothing about world economy. And maybe brazilian has
already sent much more money outside the country than it has borrowed.

Brasil is our land. Our future depend on us, despite of american influence.
But, I still prefer to live in the country of the future than in the
country of the past. 

Gilberto

PS: Some americans should think twice, if they can, before start
talking... 
Go back to your HBO and enjoy your second-rate movies.
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