In the meantime, read this by Mark Weisbrot. A sample:
"If Mr. da Silva is barred from the
presidential election, the result could have very little legitimacy, as
in the Honduran election in November that was widely seen as stolen. A
poll last year found that 42.7 percent of Brazilians believed that Mr.
da Silva was being persecuted by the news media and the judiciary. A
noncredible election could be politically destabilizing.
Perhaps
most important, Brazil will have reconstituted itself as a much more
limited form of electoral democracy, in which a politicized judiciary
can exclude a popular political leader from running for office. That
would be a calamity for Brazilians, the region and the world."
The photo was one I took four years ago in Brasília from the gorgeous Ministry of Foreign Affairs building, designed by Oscar Niemeyer. Note the big Brazilian flag in the background. Things appeared better then, with Dilma Rouseff poised to win re-election. How times have changed. Wonder if the view has.
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