{"id":19504,"date":"2016-04-04T11:35:52","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T16:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=19504"},"modified":"2016-04-04T11:36:38","modified_gmt":"2016-04-04T16:36:38","slug":"19504","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=19504","title":{"rendered":"Behind Brazil\u2019s \u2018Regime Change\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Behind Brazil\u2019s \u2018Regime Change\u2019\u00a0<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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Government \u201ccorruption\u201d\u00a0\u2013 trumpeted by international\u00a0media and exploited by U.S.-funded NGOs \u2013 is\u00a0a favorite weapon for\u00a0discrediting and removing populist leaders, as is now occurring in Brazil, explains Dan Steinbock.<\/p>\n

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While international media focuses on Brazil\u2019s mass demonstrations against corruption, efforts behind the fa\u00e7ade precipitate regime change, restoration of a pre-Lula order, and a struggle against the BRICS nations. The U.S. feels threatened by an era of multi-polarity, which deeply implicates China, and other emerging economies.<\/p>\n

In August 2016, Rio de Janeiro should host South America\u2019s first-ever Olympic games, which were supposed to be its great coming out carnival, even amid campaigns against the Zika virus. Only a few years ago, Brazil exemplified the BRIC dream of rapid growth. Now it is coping with its most severe recession in a century. But there\u2019s worse ahead.<\/p>\n

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Brazil\u2019s President Dilma Rousseff addressing the United Nations General Assembly. (UN Photo by Marco Castro)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

When Brazil\u2019s first working-class President Luis In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva took office in 2003, the poor nation was on the verge of an economic implosion. President Lula\u2019s center-left Workers\u2019 Party (PT) and its coalition won the markets with conservative fiscal policy and lifted millions from poverty, while living standards rose by 60 percent.<\/p>\n

Timing was favorable. A year after China joined the World Trade Organization; Lula initiated Brazil\u2019s economic reforms. To modernize, Brazil needed demand for its commodities; to industrialize, China needed commodities. In the subsequent eight years, the U.S. share of Brazil\u2019s exports plunged, while China\u2019s soared. Regionally, Brazil became Latin America\u2019s growth engine. Brazil and China shunned President George W. Bush\u2019s unipolar foreign policy; each supported a more multipolar view of the world.<\/p>\n

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Behind Brazil\u2019s \u2018Regime Change\u2019\u00a0 Government \u201ccorruption\u201d\u00a0\u2013 trumpeted by international\u00a0media and exploited by U.S.-funded NGOs \u2013 is\u00a0a favorite weapon for\u00a0discrediting and removing populist leaders, as is now occurring in Brazil, explains Dan Steinbock. While international media focuses on Brazil\u2019s mass demonstrations against corruption, efforts behind the fa\u00e7ade precipitate regime change, restoration of a pre-Lula order, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[90,1860,6963,13171,13280,13281,3611,13279,1343,5854,896],"class_list":["post-19504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-brazil","tag-brics","tag-consortium-news","tag-dan-steinbock","tag-luis-inacio-lula-da-silva","tag-lula","tag-ngos","tag-non-governmental-organization","tag-regime-change","tag-world-trade-organization","tag-wto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19504"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19506,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19504\/revisions\/19506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}