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  Brazil Guide map Rio de Janeiro Sao Paulo Brasilia history relocation business travel
Brazil is a federal republic with 26 states and a federal district.
Party loyalty is weak, and deputies and senators who belong to the parties comprising the government coalition do not always vote with the government.
Brazil's GDP for 2003 was $498.4 billion (-0.2% negative growth), 2002 was $499.4 billion (1.5% growth), 2001 was $503.9 billion (1.7% growth), and 2000 was $594.2 billion (4.5% growth).
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  Brazil. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Brazil’s vast territory covers a great variety of land and climate, for although Brazil is mainly in the tropics (it is crossed by the equator in the north and by the Tropic of Capricorn in the south), the southern part of the great central upland is cool and yields the produce of temperate lands.
The main political parties are the Brazilian Democratic Movement party, the Liberal Front party, the Democratic Labor party, the Brazilian Social Democracy party, and the Workers party.
Brazil drew little benefit from either; far more important were the rise of postwar discontent in the military and beginnings of the large-scale European immigration that was to make SE Brazil the economic heart of the nation.
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 All about the ULC
Parties should respond to a national reality, they are made for a territory and for the people that live there.
Liberals have the hope that this sad historical moment will have at least one positive outcome: the substitution of a violent political culture for a political culture of persuasion, dialogue and compromise.
The Cuban Liberal Union is a political party founded in Madrid in 1989 by a group of Cuban exiles with writer Carlos Alberto Montaner as President.
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 Brazil
Brazil suffered particularly, due to its dangerous combination of a young and vulnerable industrial sector with a large population of peasant farmers in the Northeast.
Later in the decade, Brazil took the lead in South America in adopting the latest technologies, building the skeleton of a national segment of the Euronet by 1979 and completing a TGV line stretching from the Uruguayan border near Porto Alegre in the south to Belo Horizonte in the north.
Brazil acquired a reputation as a country that worked; arguably, it was the single most important country in the entire world, and it certainly ranked as the most important country in the entire Southern Hemisphere..
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 Brazil
Brazil is the largest country in South America in terms of both area and population.
Brazil's GDP is the highest in Latin America and one of the highest in the world.
Brazil's chief farming and grazing areas are in the south.
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 Polity IV Country Report 2003: Brazil   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Brazil has a long history of civilian rule interrupted by long periods of military dictatorship.
The October 2002 elections brought Workers' Party candidate Luis Inacio da Silva to power; da Silva's inauguration speech included the promise to prioritize the elimination of hunger and the reduction of social and economic inequality.
Numerous parties reflecting a diverse assortment of class, regional and personalist interests participate in the electoral process and tend to aggravate rather than aggregate social divisions.
www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/polity/Bra1.htm   (698 words)

  
 Brazil - The Second Empire, 1840-89
In Brazil the war contributed to the growth of manufacturing, to the professionalization of the armed forces and their concentration in Rio Grande do Sul, to the building of roads and the settling of European immigrants in the southern provinces, and to the increased power of the central government.
The political parties were as indifferent as the government to demands for military reform, for obligatory military service, for better armament, and for higher pay and status.
The ideological differences between the parties were trivial, but factional and personal rivalries within them made it difficult for the parties to adjust to changing social and economic circumstances.
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 Brazil (11/06)
His son declared Brazil's independence on September 7, 1822, and became emperor with the title of Dom Pedro I. His son, Dom Pedro II, ruled from 1831 to 1889, when a federal republic was established in a coup led by Deodoro da Fonseca, Marshal of the Army.
Brazil is the world's largest producer of sugar cane, coffee, tropical fruits, frozen concentrated orange juice (FCOJ), and has the world's largest commercial cattle herd (50% larger than the U.S.) at 170 million head.
Brazil is expected to become a net exporter of oil by the end of 2006 as output from the Campos Basin continues to increase.
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 Embassy of Brazil   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
But Brazil's robust growth came to a halt in 1980 when its economy was buffeted by extravagant bouts of inflation.
Brazil is a vigorous federal democracy in which voting is frequent at the national, state, and municipal levels.
Brazil has 27 state governors and 10 mayors of large metropolitan cities, each of whom represents a power center that is often at odds with the central government in Brasília.
www.brasilemb.org /profile_brazil/brasil_ejournal_onis.shtml   (4175 words)

  
 Liz Lynne MEP
Liberal Democrat MEP Liz Lynne has added her voice to calls from Help the Aged for more action against age discrimination.
Liberal Democrat MEP for the West Midlands Liz Lynne has welcomed new developments at the Ricoh Arena in Coventry, saying they will boost the local economy and be good for the community as a whole.
Liberal Democrat MEP Liz Lynne today called on the UK Government and the European Commission to consider a total ban on beef imports from Brazil.
www.lizlynne.org.uk   (731 words)

  
 Social Liberal Party (Brazil) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Social Liberal Party (Partido Social Liberal) is a liberal party in Brazil.
At the last legislative elections, 6 October 2002, the party won 1 out of 513 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and no seats in the Senate.
 This political party- and liberalism-related article is a stub.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Social_Liberal_Party_(Brazil)   (101 words)

  
 Who we are
The Unión Liberal Cubana (ULC) is a political party established in the exile, branched inside Cuba, conceived as a contribution to convey the ideas of democracy, human rights and a market economy into the Island.
Two other liberal parties within Cuba, the Partido Liberal Democrático de Cuba, chaired by Osvaldo Alfonso Valdés, and Solidaridad Cubana, presided over by Fernando Sánchez López, are fraternal members of the IL as "observers," although it is expected that they will be full members some time in the future.
And freedom includes respect for people just as they are, because liberalism disavows all of those dangerous manipulations of "social engineering" or "political genetics" that so many adversities have brought to humankind upon trying to submit it to "perfections" decided by small groups of "enlightened" who see themselves as holders of the absolute truth.
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 Brazil
Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country, occupying almost half of the South American continent and bordering every country in it except for Chile and Ecuador.
The richness and diversity of Brazil's fauna is astounding, and the country ranks first in the world for numbers of species of primates, amphibians and plants; third for bird species; and fourth for species of butterflies and reptiles.
Brazil is officially a Catholic country, but in practice the country's religious life incorporates Indian animism, African cults, Afro-Catholic syncretism and Kardecism, a spiritualist religion embracing Eastern mysticism, which is gaining popularity with Brazilian Whites.
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 Brazil: Workers' Party Betrays Workers
The PT is a party based on the working class, which in the past had proclaimed socialism as its aim and promised to repudiate Brazil’s massive foreign debts as well as radically redistribute the land.
During the election campaign, in a move designed to pressure the PT from the left, a referendum was organized by the CUT, the MST, left organizations and churches on the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) and the foreign debt.
For example, in Brazil the police and soldiers have a certain tradition of struggle for their own interests that has led many workers to mistakenly think they are a legitimate part of the working-class and union movement.
www.lrp-cofi.org /PR/brazilPR70.html   (5385 words)

  
 liberalism - Ask.com Web Search
Liberalism is an ideology, philosophy, and political tradition which holds liberty as the primary political value."Liberty is not a means to a higher political end.
The Ludwig von Mises Institute is the research and educational center of classical liberalism and the Austrian School of economics.
Aims to contribute to a renewal of democratic traditions by presenting a practical and convincing vision of liberal philosophy, politics and...
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 City Mayors: Brazil federal, state and local government
In part his victory was derived from a softening of his and the party’s anti-neoliberal stance, including a vice-presidential candidate from the right-wing Liberal Party, acceptance of an IMF accord agreed by the previous government and a statement directed at the markets.
Brazil’s Congress is bicameral, the Senate containing 81 members (3 from each state) and 513 in the Chamber of Deputies.
Government in Brazil’s nearly 5,000 municipalities is structured in a similar way to the state level, with a separation maintained between the executive in the form of a mayor, and the unicameral legislative city council.
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 Brazil
Party loyalty is weak, and deputies and senators who belong to the parties comprising the government coalition do not always vote with the government.
Brazil's economy, aided by a benign international environment, grew approximately 2.4% in 2005 and 4.9% in 2004.
Brazil has chaired the "Group of Friends" countries committed to supporting long-term democracy in Venezuela, of which the U.S. also is a member.
www.infoplease.com /country/profiles/brazil.html   (3831 words)

  
 CALD News
Luiz Alberto Ferla, President of the Institute of Advanced Studies and member of the national directorate of the Liberal Party of Brazil; Mr.
Maria Eugenia Sequeira, MP, of the Liberal Party of Nicaragua; and, Mr.
Bi-Khim Hsiao, MP, of the Democratic Progressive Party and CALD Secretary General; Dr. Neric Acosta, MP, Executive Vice President of the Liberal Party of the Philippines; and, Dr. Rajiva Wijesinha, President of the Liberal Party of Sri Lanka.
www.cald.org /news/cald_relial.htm   (387 words)

  
 Brazil: Neoliberalism with a "Human Face" MICHEL CHOSSUDOVSKY / Global Research 25apr03
In Brazil, there were restrictions on the flow of capital, on foreign capital acquiring Brazilian banks and on international banks opening branches in Brazil as mandated by the 1988 Constitution, all of which prohibited the development of the capital markets.
Brazil's foreign currency reserves have fallen from $78 billion in July 1998 to $48 billion in September.
Brazil's PT government should draw the lessons of Argentina where the IMF's economic medicine played a key role in precipitating the country into a deep-seated economic and social crisis.
www.mindfully.org /Reform/2003/Brazil-Neoliberalism25apr03.htm   (3561 words)

  
 Brazil - Minor Parties in Congress
Dubbed the businessman's Workers' Party, the Liberal Party rapidly supplanted the Liberal Front Party (Partido da Frente Liberal--PFL) in São Paulo.
In the elections of November 15, 1986, the Liberal Party secured seven seats in the Chamber of Deputies and one in the Senate.
In 1993 the Brazilian Communist Party (Partido Comunista Brasileiro--PCB), in a stormy national convention led by its president, Deputy Roberto Freire, removed Marxist-Leninist doctrine from the party statutes and the hammer and sickle from its flag, and changed its name to the PPS (Popular Socialist Party).
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 Study Abroad with CIEE International Study Programs
The largest country in Latin America, encompassing nearly half of South America, Brazil has a population of over 160 million and is one of the world’s top ten economies.
Brazil faces the difficulties of integration into the globalized world, while addressing issues of unemployment, severe inequality, and economic instability at home.
PUC had an important role in the resistance of the dictatorship regime in Brazil as well as participation in Brazil’s re-democratization process.
www.ciee.org /IFDS/seminars/brazil_2006.aspx   (592 words)

  
 Brazil’s soiled hero, by Ignacio Ramonet
In Brazil, parliamentary representatives are traditionally independent of the parties whose badges they wear.
His innovative South-South diplomacy has been a source of irritation, as is Brazil’s pivotal role in a Latin America which is driven by the new Venezuela-Cuba axis and the increasingly left-leaning Argentina, Uruguay and Panama.
Addressing the nation in August, Brazil’s president presented his apologies, claiming to have been “betrayed by unacceptable practices of which I was not aware”.
mondediplo.com /2005/10/01brazil   (693 words)

  
 Brazil is Going Through an Identity Crisis
It depends on the possibility of carrying out mass mobilizations demanding changes in the economic policy and a broad political reform that rescues the Lula government from being held hostage to its conservative alliances and its commitments to the neo-liberals.
Stédile: If it is true that our crisis is about the lack of a project, of a model, of a destiny, presidential elections will not resolve it.
We in the MST are worried about the future of Brazil, not about who is going to be the next president of the Republic..
www.globalexchange.org /countries/brazil/3472.html   (701 words)

  
 CNN.com - World - Election Watch
Brazil's bicameral legislature, the Congresso Nacional (National Congress), is composed of the Federal Senate and the Chamber of Deputies.
With approximately 100 million voters, Brazil is the largest democracy in Latin America.
The October 1998 election was the first time in which the majority of Brazil's voters will use computerized electronic voting machines.
www.cnn.com /WORLD/election.watch/americas/brazil.html   (440 words)

  
 Liberal leadership race officially begins
Two prominent Liberals, one a newly minted MP and the other a former cabinet minister, entered the race for the party's leadership as it officially began on Friday.
The two entered the race shortly after the party issued the official call for its leadership and convention, to be held in Montreal Nov. 28-Dec. 3.
Dion is currently the Liberal foreign affairs critic, and served as environment minister in Paul Martin's government.
www.cbc.ca /canada/story/2006/04/07/liberal-leadership060407.html   (1198 words)

  
 Members - Liberalism
Please note that this information is published by Liberal International and not by the party or organisation concerned.
Liberal Democrat Group of the Council of Europe (LDR)
Liberal Party of the Philippines (LP) - Philippines
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 liberal - Definitions from Dictionary.com
Synonyms: These adjectives mean willing or marked by a willingness to give unstintingly: a liberal backer of the arts; a bounteous feast; bountiful compliments; a freehanded host; a generous donation; a handsome offer; a munificent gift; fond and openhanded grandparents.
is to the liberal arts (L. artes liberales; see art (n.)), the seven attainments directed to intellectual enlargement, not immediate practical purpose, and thus deemed worthy of a free man (the word in this sense was opposed to servile or mechanical).
But also (especially in U.S. politics) tending to mean "favorable to government action to effect social change," which seems at times to draw more from the religious sense of "free from prejudice in favor of traditional opinions and established institutions" (and thus open to new ideas and plans of reform), which dates from 1823.
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 The IMF Domination of Brazil
To guarantee these gigantic expenses such as interest paid to the national and foreign capitalists, the government cuts funds for education, health and housing, thereby obtaining a large surplus, that is, economising to the maximum with the aim of paying interest to the speculators.
What is worse is that a great part of the problems of Brazil could be resolved if this fortune was diverted from paying the interest on the public debt were invested in social services.
As we have seen, it is a matter of a gigantic diversion of public money into the hands and stocks of a tiny minority of rich families, in order to pay a debt which, as we all know, has already been paid off dozens of times over.
www.revolutionarydemocracy.org /rdv11n2/imfbrazil.htm   (931 words)

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