Saying Brazilians Lack National Pride, Marketeers Create Self-Esteem Campaign, notes Kenneth Rapoza

Article image President of Brazil
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
Photo: Ricardo Stuckert
“Lula was from a poor family when he moved to Sao Paulo and quickly improved
his life once he found work as an auto mechanic. It's hard to do that today”, said Luiz Gonzaga Belluzo, ex-secretary of economic policy at the Finance Ministry.
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“I don't understand why rich countries, with more resources than us, are allowed to have public deficits of three and four percent and we have to have a surplus of more than four percent”, said Oded Grajew, a former Lula Administration official and creator of the World Social Forum, a global meeting of organizations critical of globalization.

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