Brazil's president battles widening scandal

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BRIBERY ALLEGATIONS: Lula's party stands accused of vote-buying and accepting kickbacks, in a corruption scandal that could dash the president's reelection chances

AP , RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL

His voice hoarse, his arms waving, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva told a cheering crowd that Brazil's "elites" would not break him, that he had learned from his poor, illiterate parents not to lie or to steal.
"With a lot of sacrifice, I earned the right to hold my head up high," he told an applauding oil workers union.

Silva, a former union boss elected in a landslide with pledges to make Brazil a "decent country," is back on the campaign trail. But this time it's to save his presidency from corruption charges, regain the trust of voters -- and avoid possible impeachment.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2005/08/01/2003265971

American Capitalist Bush Republican Democracy at work all over the world!

[loudsue]

1. Looks like the neocons have gotten a hold in Brazil....

They're everywhere! They're everywhere!!

:kick::kick::kick:

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2. amazingly, Brazil's corruption is nothing beside Bushler et al's

Who'd have thought?