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when Klaus Regling, the head of the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF), the euro areas bail-out fund, visited Beijing a day later. And a poor post-summit Italian bond auction has made the need for a deus ex machina seem even greater.China certainly has lots of money to invest. its foreign-exchange reserves are reckoned at $3.2 trillion. It trades more with the EU than any other partner. It has exposure to the euro already. How much is not known, but currency analysts suspect that about a quarter of those reserves are already euro-denominated, giving it an incentive to keep the currency strong. It also suits China to play the part of a constructive economic actor.Then again, we have been here many times before during the euro-zone saga. You can trace the growing seriousness of the crisis by the list of countries that have had talks with the Chinese about investments: first Greece, then Portugal, Spain and now countries at the very core of the euro zone. The pattern to date has always been the same: lots of encouraging rhetoric, perhaps even a little cash, but not enough to meet initial expectations.There is at least something different on offer now. In the past, investment in euro-zone debt has meant taking on as much risk, and sometimes more risk, than the Europeans themselves have been willing to absorb. No one could ever explain why the Chinese would want to do that. Now China will be able to choose to invest in euro-zone debt that is ensured by the EFSF, or to buy senior tranches of the special-purpose vehicles (SPVs) that the EFSF will capitalise. China would explicitly be taking less risk than the Europeans.That helps, but probably not enough to deliver a different outcome. The Europeans are taking more risk but that does not mean that they are offering lots of protection to other buyers. And it will take time for these structures to be set up: China will want lots more detail, and to see how the Greek bond swap with private creditors goes, before it commits cash.Grand political bargains between China and Europemoney in return for more representation at the IMF, or market-economy statusseem wildly improbable. These prizes will eventually come anyway; and weak though parts of Europe are, the EU cannot be seen to trade them too nakedly. Bargaining of this sort would also require both parties to change their positions markedly. China is keen not to be seen as a source of dumb money, but requiring big political concessions in return for cash is a pretty clear signal that this is not a commercially attractive investment. As for the euro zone, it can hardly claim that senior Spanish and Italian debt is now safe for institutional investors if it has to horse-trade too hard to get China on board.That does not mean that Mr Reglings trip, which now takes him to Japan, is wasted. It is plausible that China will put some money into euro-zone debt alongside other non-European countries. How that money could be used depends a bit on whether
it is channelled by the IMF or some other means. One option might be for other governments jointly to invest in a thick junior tranche of an SPV so that private investors would have an even greater cushion protecting them from any losses. A financial vehicle that saw the euro zone take most risk through equity, other governments a bit more through subordinated debt and private-sector investors the least through senior debt is still a long shot. But it is more realistic than expecting China to splash enough cash to save the euro.fonte: THE ECONOMIST: http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2011/10/euro-zone-crisis-4
em defesa da mulher foram ditos : Estao em jogo a privacidade, a autonomia e a dignidade humana dessas mulheres. Hao de ser respeitadas tanto as que optem por prosseguir a gravidez quanto as que prefiram interromper a gravidez para por fim ou minimizar um estado de sofrimento. Nao se pode exigir da mulher aquilo que o Estado nao vai fornecer por meio de manobras medicas, disse. O relator defendeu a antecipacao terapeutica do parto, o que considera diferente do aborto, pois a Constituicao so autoriza em caso de estupro e riscos a saude da gravida.Nao obstante o placar nao fora definido e os ministros do Supremo Tribunal Federal (STF) darao continuidade nesta quinta-feira (12), a partir das 14h, ao julgamento sobre o tema. Nao se sabe ainda qual sera o resultado, mas ja pende para a defesa ao aborto e a escolha da mulher, entretanto do lado de fora do STF, grupos religiosos contrarios a legalizacao do aborto de anencefalos fizeram uma vigilia e oracoes pela nao aprovacao da medida.
PAZ13. Fortalecer as instituicoes democraticas emtodos os niveis e proporcionar-lhes transparenciae prestacao de contas no exercicio dogoverno, participacao inclusiva na tomada dedecisoes, e acesso a justica.a. Defender o direito de todas as pessoas nosentido de receber informacao clara e oportunasobre assuntos ambientais e todos os planos dedesenvolvimento e atividades que poderiamafeta-las ou nos quais tenham interesse.b. Apoiar sociedades civis locais, regionais eglobais e promover a participacao significativa detodos os individuos e organizacoes na tomada dedecisoes.c. Proteger os direitos a liberdade de opiniao, deexpressao, de assembleia pacifica, de associacao ede oposicao.d. Instituir o acesso efetivo e eficiente a procedimentosadministrativos e judiciais independentes,incluindo retificacao e compensacao por danosambientais e pela ameaca de tais danos.e. Eliminar a corrupcao em todas as instituicoespublicas e privadas.f. Fortalecer as comunidades locais, habilitandoasa cuidar dos seus propios ambientes, e atribuirresponsabilidades ambientais aos niveis governamentaisonde possam ser cumpridas mais efetivamente.14. Integrar, na educacao formal e na aprendizagemao longo da vida, os conhecimentos, valorese habilidades necessarias para um modo de vidasustentavel.a. Oferecer a todos, especialmente a criancas ejovens, oportunidades educativas que lhes permitamcontribuir ativamente para o desenvolvimentosustentavel.b. Promover a contribuicao das artes e humanidades,assim como das ciencias, na educacao parasustentabilidade.c. Intensificar o papel dos meios de comunicacao demassa no sentido de aumentar a sensibilizacao paraos desafios ecologicos e sociais.d. Reconhecer a importancia da educacao moral eespiritual para uma subsistencia sustentavel.15. Tratar todos os seres vivos com respeito econsideracao.a. Impedir crueldades aos animais mantidos em sociedades humanas e protege-los de desofrimentosb. Proteger animais selvagens de metodos de caca, armadilhas e pesca que causem sofrimento extremo, prolongado ou evitavel.c. Evitar ou eliminar ao maximo possivel a captura ou destruicao de especies nao visadas.16. Promover uma cultura de tolerancia, nao violencia e paz.a. Estimular e apoiar o entendimento mutuo, a solidariedadee a cooperacao entre todas as pessoas, dentro das e entre as nacoes.b. Implementar estrategias amplas para prevenir conflitos violentos e usar a colaboracao na resolucao de problemas para manejar e resolver conflitos ambientais e outras disputas.c. Desmilitarizar os sistemas de seguranca nacional ate chegar ao nivel de uma postura nao-provocativa da defesa e converter os recursos militares em propositos pacificos, incluindo restauracao ecologica.d. Eliminar armas nucleares, biologicas e toxicas eoutras armas de destruicao em massa.e. Assegurar que o uso do espaco orbital e cosmico mantenha a protecao ambiental e a paz.f. Reconhecer que a paz e a plenitude criada por relacoes corretas consigo mesmo, com outras pessoas, outras culturas, outras vidas, com a Terra e com a totalidade maior da qual somos parte.FONTE: http://www.cartadaterra.com.br/pdf/CartadaTerra.pdf
of the war on the hill that overlooks Maracana Stadium, where the opening ceremonies will be held.The word "favela" never appears.When worlds collideThe two Rios are on a collision course.Part of the city is breathtaking, a place of shimmering beaches and dark, trendy restaurants with stars on the wall. Men wear fedoras without irony. Models strut down the Copacabana Boardwalk. White-linen tourists sip from coconuts. There is always music, from a boom box on the beach, from speakers inside an open-air bar. This is the Brazil of glossy brochures. This is where things like these two sporting events -- the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics -- are born, things over which the poor in the slums have no control but which will have immense power to change their lives. The citizens of Macacos don't know if the changes will be good, or if the changes ultimately will destroy them, or when or how their fate will come. A sporting event is like the volcano on Macacos' horizon: It is mysterious and, despite the citizens of Macacos taking great pains not to anger it, eruption is inevitable. When the Olympics and World Cup were announced, the volcano began smoking.The favelas, Rio's guilty conscience, almost a thousand of them, overlook paradise but never, ever partake. Dense, urban slums with wretched educational opportunities, no social services, no police protection, they exist outside civilized society. Residents who live in the city don't go up the hill. It's possible to live a middle-class life without the violence of the slums affecting one's daily existence. But the violence is always there. In 2010, there were 4,798 murders in Rio. That's about a fourth the number of murders annually in the entire United States. (The U.S. population is about 300 million people. Rio has 6 million.) Favelas are desperate places, and they've been ignored since the first one popped up in 1897. Only now, some of them are close to venues for the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympic Games.Rio has less than three years to fix a crisis a century in the making.The clock is ticking.A successful Olympics bid followed by a gang warThe hill overlooking Maracana Stadium gave the city's old problem a new face. Two weeks after the IOC awarded the games to Rio, in October 2009, a gang war erupted. The extreme violence in such close proximity to the Olympic announcement brought the two Rios into focus.Five months after the shooting stopped, a helicopter flew high above the battle scene. The hill, a mile long and five miles around, curls like a frown. The edges slope hard toward the streets. Lush green grass and bushy trees cover most of the hill. Here and there, clusters of naked boulders jut out. You can see everything from up here: the middle-class neighborhood controlled by the police, the warring slums controlled by the gangs, and the stadium that has the cops and the drug-trafficking gangbangers in a showdown. The pilot swings around the three favelas tucked into the hill's slopes and crevices, flying over the switchbacks
leading to the top, over the makeshift houses of red brick and rusted tin stacked atop each other, something wedged into every inch. Besides the soccer field where games are banned, there is an empty swimming pool; the drug dealers forbid it to be filled with water.The two neighborhoods sandwiching Macacos -- Sao Joao and Mangueira -- are controlled by the Comando Vermelho (Red Command) gang, the most powerful drug traffickers in Rio. Macacos is run by the Amigos dos Amigos, or the ADA. Enemies surround Macacos, from ultraviolent business competitors to corrupt cops.Maracana Stadium will host World Cup matches and the 2016 opening ceremony. Fans coming to the stadium will be able to see the hill a mile away, not to mention television cameras beaming the images to billions around the world. "The message they send to the world is: Rio is at war," says Ignacio Cano, a police violence researcher feared by law enforcement officials because he exposes so much corruption. "We cannot sell this model to people all over the world. 'Come to our war, and in the middle of the war, we're gonna show you some sporting competition?'"The blades thump as the pilot swings around the slums. He won't fly closer, and he won't fly lower. In that October 2009 battle, CV gang members began firing at a police helicopter with anti-aircraft guns. The big shells ripped into the rotors, leaving the pilot fighting for control, looking down into the dense urban neighborhood for a safe place to crash.Invasion!The battle began with a phone call from a maximum security prison.CV bosses sent the order: Invade Macacos.CVers and other hired guns came from Mangueira. They came from Alemao. They came from seven different favelas, gathering in Sao Joao. A convoy of gunman in covered trucks, followed by at least nine cars and dozens of motorcycles, formed an invasion fleet, unimpeded by the law, flowing through the empty streets of one of the largest cities in the world. Other soldiers, police sources said, followed the thin trails along the back of the hill toward the white rock topped with the white cross. The invaders could see a glow from the two dozen or so light bulbs strung across the cross -- a beacon.They arrived shooting.As the gunshots subsided, residents heard shouting: "Macacos is red!" They huddled on their floors. Mario Lima, the president of the Macacos neighborhood association, hid in his bathroom with his family. His son would still have nightmares more than a year later. They all clung to each other; they could hear the gangsters on the other side of the wall. As windows shattered in the house, the Limas could hear the glass hitting the floor and the threats that followed. Finally, the CV moved on to another house. Lima called the police. He called 10 times, begging for help. None came.Through the long night, the CV held the favela. Entire families fled, abandoning their homes. They brought only what they could carry. Mothers pushed strollers down the hill. Others carried babies wrapped in blankets in their
arms. Citizens gathered at a jail at the bottom of the hill, heating toward riot, angry that the police seemed to be doing nothing. They lit tires on fire in the streets. They threw rocks at the jail.A man hiding in his home wrote into the local paper's website: "Where are the police?"You are what you shootBrazil's police forces have always treated the favelas as enemy nations. They use the vocabulary of war: invasions, troops, battles. Every few months, cops from the BOPE Elite Squad -- think Brazil's Navy SEALS -- locked and loaded, would storm a favela, killing as many drug dealers as possible before withdrawing. Popular culture celebrated these raids in best-selling books and blockbuster movies.For residents, the first warning is almost always the gunshots. The police come in behind a protective curtain of bullets. People run toward their homes. If they can't get there, they dive through the first open door. Schools close. Stores close. Everyone hides. Bullets ricochet off concrete walls and fly through cheaper ones. They shatter windows. Some people are executed. Others get shot randomly. Wrong place, wrong time. Bad luck.To be fair, these raids are terrifying for the cops, too. Dogs leap out of doorways, barking maniacally. Children scream. Doors slam. The smell of garbage and raw sewage overwhelms the senses. Chests heave and hearts pound from the fear and the steep vertical incline. SUVs rush away the wounded. Gangster snipers aim high-caliber weapons from the cubist towers of open windows. The world shrinks to the metal in your hands. Firing a rifle brings you back into contact with yourself: You feel the kick of the stock, hear the bang of the hammer, smell the powder, taste the cordite, see the dense, white smoke and the glimmer of sun off the ejecting cartridge. Brave cops look for muzzle flashes. Most fire blind, hot shell casings jingling onto the pavement.Invasion II!The next morning the sun rose, chasing away the shadows.Cops marched up the hill. Even as the gangsters retreated, machine guns rattled and rifles popped. Residents huddled in a nearby park, wondering if they'd ever go home again. But, unexpectedly, the CV faded fast. It gave up position after position. It lost everything, even the cross. It fled down the back of the hill. Overhead, a police helicopter named Phoenix 3 circled, providing air support. Downtown Rio looked and sounded like a war movie.One fleeing drug trafficker looked up and saw Phoenix 3, flying low. He aimed his .30 caliber. A stream of shells flew toward the chopper. One pierced the floor and hit the co-pilot in the foot. Others cut up the rotors.Pilot Marcelo Vaz felt the shudder. He smelled the smoke. The other cops screamed. Vaz could hear them calling out their injuries. Burns. Gunshots. He focused, looking down through the smoke. All around, nothing but dense urban ghetto. If he crashed into the favela, people would burn to death. He needed a clear spot. Finally, he saw it: a soccer field, a patch of rich brown dirt surrounded by weeds. Its systems failing,
Phoenix 3 was now more rock than aircraft. Only 90 seconds had passed. Vaz braced. His passengers braced.Seconds later, everybody within earshot heard the loudest boom of the morning, a roaring explosion. They saw the thick, black smoke. Lima, the neighborhood association president, was horrified. He felt like the city was collapsing. This was the final act in a long drama. The end of the end. If gangsters can shoot down helicopters, he thought, everything is lost.On the soccer field, the blue tips of the rotors poked at odd angles from the wreckage. It didn't look like a helicopter. It looked like someone had emptied a garbage truck of burning, crumpled paper. Two cops died on impact. The two pilots suffered minor injuries. The two cops who survived the landing suffered severe burns and were rushed to a hospital.The people of Macacos knew what was coming now. They all did. It didn't matter who'd pulled what trigger.Everyone in the favela was guilty.Hungering for revengeDown below, the CV raged. It had taken Macacos and then lost it. A city bus driver on the 284 route saw gunmen run out of a favela. They carried gasoline, a rifle and a pistol. They ordered everyone out. "Down, down," they shouted. "We'll set fire." The scene repeated itself throughout the rest of Rio: cars and buses burning, red flames and black smoke, until only chassis were left, smoldering."The police invaded the slum and gave it back to ADA," well-known gang war author Julio Ludemir explains. "The CV said, 'Bull----. I did everything perfect. It was a perfect crime. I took this symbol.' We don't have wars over drug spots. We have wars to take symbols. That war was very planned, and they won the war. They sent a sign to the city: 'Bull----, police.'"That night, CV gangsters celebrated their temporary victory over ADA and the downing of the Phoenix 3 with a concert, a rave with underground rappers. A local newspaper breathlessly reported they partied with whiskey and cocaine. The Internet hummed with songs eulogizing both sides. A day passed. Lima prayed that the police would stay, that they would occupy the neighborhood and rid them of gangs forever. A second day passed. These were times of horror. That's the word he would use later. Horror.On the third day, the Amigos dos Amigos returned. They vowed revenge.Coming soon: more mindless violenceThe police vowed revenge, too.A cycle begins anew. Violence begets violence. Cops found a body, blue from a beating and perforated with bullet holes, in a shopping cart at the bottom of Macacos. That brought the death toll to at least 25, including a secretary, a mechanic and two bricklayers. Cause of death: bad luck. Police found a cache of weapons buried in the bushes of a nearby favela: two shotguns, an AK-47, a 9 millimeter submachine gun, a sword, a grenade, 3,000 rounds of ammunition, eight rifles, a .30 caliber pistol, three bulletproof vests, eight BOPE uniforms and, the biggest prize of all, the gun used to shoot down the helicopter.Police funerals were held. Brazil
mourned. One man killed in the helicopter crash was an only child and had been married just five months. Another had a 3-year-old daughter. His wife became ill several times during the funeral. A third officer, who suffered severe burns in the crash of the Phoenix 3, died a few days later. During his funeral, a helicopter dropped rose petals on the casket.Cops held up widows and hugged children, comforted mothers and carried coffins. Then they went hunting. They shot at traffickers. They shot a housewife in the back. She died holding her 11-month-old daughter. The little girl was hit in the arm. They shot at everything that moved. In a slum to the east of Macacos, a week later, residents told local reporters, the police raided the home of an 18-year-old student. They beat and tortured him. They suffocated him with a plastic bag.Macacos awaited its turn.Answers, but not for Macacos In the aftermath of the Macacos disaster, change was in the wind. The old way was broken. Everyone knew this. The government saw the collision course of the two Rios and, with the clock ticking, decided to do something different.BOPE continued raiding favelas, only this time more cops followed, putting up permanent police stations, walking the streets. The occupation forces are called UPPs. This is Rio to those who believe sporting events can change lives. Cops patrolling occupied favelas now find children smiling at them."I can see the kids are happy," said Capt. Rosana Alves as she walked through a favela in early 2010. "They have a better future. Their future will be better than their past. This is priceless. The kids ask me to play PlayStation with them. When they come back from school, they give me a kiss. They call me Aunt Rosana."Guessing which neighborhoods would be retaken next consumed Rio de Janeiro. Police could not be told until the last minute because of the corruption that runs through every layer of government, so gossip filled the halls of cop shops around the city. In Macacos, citizens waited their turn. Some yearned for protection. Others feared what would happen if the police came. Lima and a few others quietly reached out and begged for a UPP in Macacos. They did so carefully; if the gangsters found out, they would be killed. To Lima, it was a risk worth taking. Lima believes the shiny brochures.In Macacos, some of the remaining ADA soldiers began slipping out, relocating. Police watchdogs saw a trend. As the government forces raided favelas in the South Zone, where the Olympic venues are located, the poorer North Zone -- the safe harbor for fleeing traffickers -- grew more violent, but that's a problem for later. Open warfare in the vicinity of television cameras is Public Enemy No. 1.Tension filled Macacos. What would the future hold for them?Would the cops storm their hill?Would they stay, and for how long?What would be gained in the battle?What would be lost?Angst and pessimismAn uneasy peace hangs over the favela through the summer.Five months have passed since the helicopter was shot