Newly declassified U.S. documents show the extent of American willingness to provide aid to Brazil's generals during the 1964 coup that ushered in 21 years of often bloody military rule. #msg-2767366
Get ready for more aggressive CIA involvement in Brazil. We will see significant unrest and turmoil centered around stepped up criticism of Lula.
It seems that both Russia and China are helping Brazil gain the capability to launch ICBMs with nuclear warheads.
In the next few months Brazil anticipates signing contracts with Russia that will give them the capability of bringing to orbit large payloads or to launch ICBMs
A little-discussed Brazilian uranium enrichment program illustrates some critical flaws in the Bush administration's campaign to prevent the proliferation of what it calls the world's most dangerous weapons.
It is very clear, Brazil, our neighbor to the South, is going for ICBMs with nuclear warheads. This apparently is being kept quiet probably at least until after our #msg-2670339
In addition Brazil’s “more aggressive” foreign policy helped earn promising preliminary findings by the World Trade Organization this week in its dispute over US cotton subsidies. The WTO ruling favoring Brazil threatens US economic sovereignty #msg-2958602
However, Brazil is not finished and considers the WTO ruling only the first in a long line of revolutionary changes. "But if important countries like Brazil decided to band together, we would have extraordinary power ... (to) change the world's trade geography," Lula added.
``The leadership of Brazil is very significant for the hemisphere because Brazil has had an inward-looking foreign policy, but is beginning to assert itself,'' Sweig said. ``Brazil sees itself as an emerging middle power, lobbying for a permanent seat on the Security Council and taking a leadership role as a counterweight to the U.S. and Mexico.''
Brazil's "more aggressive" policy led to promising WTO findings: Lula
BRASILIA : Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said his country's "more aggressive" foreign policy helped earn promising preliminary findings by the World Trade Organization this week in its dispute over US cotton subsidies.
"Our readiness to have a bolder foreign policy that is more aggressive but respectful at the same time was behind the favorable news on the Brazilian cotton issue at the WTO," Lula said during a farm business fair in Riberao Preto, in Sao Paulo state.
A three-judge panel was established in March 2003 after Brazil complained to the WTO that the United States paid nearly four billion dollars in subsidies for crops worth just three billion dollars from 2001-2002.
The contents of the panel's confidential report were released to Brazil and the United States Monday, but the findings have not been made public.
"Our fight with the developed world -- with the EU (European Union) and the United States -- is a fight of giants, and most times it takes years to win a small case in the WTO," Lula said.
"But if important countries like Brazil decided to band together, we would have extraordinary power ... (to) change the world's trade geography," he added.
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