The Brazilian president speaks with civil society, free, no fixed list of questions. Today, 30.1. For three hours with the International Council of the WSF. Some of his colleagues president could cut off a slice of it - "With his face to the people, not with your feet in the cloud" is sung, as Gerhard beautiful in the GDR. Unfortunately, Lula is also a persistent long-range speakers. The Environment Minister was also present, not to speak - his position, we would have heard you.
The gap between the ex-trade unionist Lula and the World Social Forum has grown.
Three examples: If
Brazil solidarity with other developing countries remain , as is Brazil's trade policy - it is all about exports of agricultural products, and Brazil's new role as an oil producing country - next shaped? Questions of colleagues from Africa and Latin America. Beyond all the verbal assurances of the South-South cooperation: Lula sees the role of Brazil in the expanded group of G8, the UN Security Council, on an equal footing with the U.S., EU, Russia, Japan. The developing countries would in future benefit from the experience and knowledge in Brazil: How to develop industry, operates as one export-oriented agriculture, as one uses the resources of a country properly. Brazil could otherwise afford as the old colonial powers that had "absolutely nothing" done for Africa, authentic development, and do already - such a good research facility equipped for Tropical Agriculture in Accra (Ghana), advance the Green Revolution in Africa should.
Whether Brazil's policy of rural development is sustainable?
The president relies on large projects. He told the Council the importance of large-scale cultivation of soybeans and cotton, from infrastructure operations Amazon (roads, dams, development of agricultural land). It is especially important that people have to eat three times a day - rice, beans, and that jobs would arise. The resources were inexhaustible Brazil - land, water, mineral resources.
on the forum and visit our partners in the state of Pará, we have heard something different. As is the redirection of rivers (Rio San Francisco), the speech that use the industry to escape the local residents but the water will. As indigenous peoples set against the construction of large dams in their areas a (Altamira). As expected from peasants' organizations, such as the large Area and the cultivation of soybeans last eats.
Although many things must be tested - are environmental considerations in the program Lula is not available.
As it was ordered with the freedom of the media in Brazil?
The underlying question is important: In Brazil, thousands of local radio stations have been established which could close an important gap in the Brazilian media system: information - information about the matters that need the people in the villages and slums. The operator of local radio stations with one foot in prison, like us, the EED-specialist Andreas Behn (Rio de Janeiro) reports: admissions to seven to eight Take years, if they are even granted is not safe and must be evangelical broadcasters it were easier and faster.
Lula has left it to one of his employees to answer this question. What politicians do in such cases? They point to the existing law, which regulated all the best. A major concern is of course still pursue: Operators of illegal radio stations should not go to jail, but come with a fine like this.
side note: The organization of the landless in Brazil, Movimento Sem Terra da (MST) has met yesterday with the President of Paraguay, Bolivia, Ecuador and Venezuela in this closed group. Lula was the MST was not invited, his four colleagues have made up the. The President has "scheduling reasons" canceled.
Jürgen Reichel
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