http://www.opendemocracy.net/globalization-institutions_government/dream_2767.jsp Comments for "Lula: the dream is over, Arthur Ituassu " en http://www.opendemocracy.net/globalization-institutions_government/dream_2767.jsp <p> President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva addressed the Brazilian people on the morning of Friday 12 August in a speech transmitted live on radio and TV networks across this vast country. It was three months since the eruption of the worst political crisis in Brazil since the impeachment of one of his predecessors, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_Collor_de_Mello" target="_blank">Fernando Collor de Mello</a>, in 1992. </p> <p> The event also marked the end of another week of tough news and crushing revelations for a president elected in <a href="http://www.electionworld.org/brazil.htm" target="_blank">October 2002</a> by a people – especially Brazil’s poor – as an icon of hope, honesty and a better life for themselves and their country. His <em>Partido dos Trabalhadores</em> (Workers’ Party, PT) entered government at the same time after three failed campaigns (1989, 1994 and 1998), carrying the <a href="/themes/article.jsp?id=3&amp;articleId=897" target="_blank">promise</a> of rule by clean hands that deserved the trust of the electorate. </p>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/globalization-institutions_government/dream_2767.jsp" class="read-more" title="Read the rest of this posting.">Read the rest of this post...</a><p><a href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/globalization-institutions_government/dream_2767.jsp">read more</a></p> http://www.opendemocracy.net/globalization-institutions_government/dream_2767.jsp#comment latin america democracy &amp; power Arthur Ituassu Creative Commons normal Thu, 18 Aug 2005 00:00:00 +0100 2767 at http://www.opendemocracy.net