POLITICAL CONJUNCTURE

2006.3. PSDB is divided between the Rio group, that supports the present conventional orthodoxy, and the São Paulo group that critiques it.(Interview: O Estado de S.Paulo)

2006.3. Giddens believes that Lula is a left politician, but, through a high interest rate, he is just transferring income from the poor to the rentiers. (article: Folha de S.Paulo).

2006.2. PSDB is divided. One group supports the present economic policies, the other, rejects them. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo).

2006. José Serra may well be the statesman that Brazil is requiring. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo)

2006. In Brazil the left wins elections but does not govern. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo)

2005. If PSDB was in office, I doubt that it would have the present interest rate policy. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo).

2005. The Brazilian society is appalled by the administration's political corruption and opportunism in economic policy. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo)

2005. Brazil was a nation for some time, but, today, she must reinvented herself as a nation if she wants to resume growth. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo)

2005. Prediction that José Serra will be the new president of Brazil in 2007, and that PSDB should only make a coalition after the elections, not before.(Interview: Folha)

2005. The political crisis will not entail an economic crisis because it is a 'government's crisis', not a crisis of the state or the property system. (Article: Folha).

2005. The probable outcome of this political crisis will be the impeachment, despite the fact that the rich and the politicians are not interested in it.(Article: Folha de S.Paulo)

2005. Civil society usually has many voices, but, when it becomes indignant, as it is becoming recently, it may have a unique voice. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo)

2005. The Lula administration faces a second major legitimacy crisis, loses support in civil socity, and becomes unable to really govern.(Article: Folha de S.Paulo

2005. Today, given the administration's political inconsistency and fragility, there is no government but the state continues to function normally.(Article: Folha de S.Paulo).

2005. Between the neo-liberal ideology and the old left's beliefs there is a third discourse asking for a consistent national strategy of growth.(Article: Folha de S.Paulo)

2005. Democracy was enable to overcome the quasi-stagnation of the Brazilian economy, but it allows for consensus that, once achieved, will do that.(Article: Folha de S.Paulo)

2005. To renew the agreement with the IMF when this is not necessary is to accept national submission.(Article: Folha de S.Paulo)

2004. Nationalism continues to be criticized, while Brazil is unable to protect its national interest. Meanwhile, rich countries remain deeply nationalist. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo).

2003. Social conflict in inherent to democracy. (Article, Folha de S.Paulo, 10.8.2003)

2002. The Brazilian national revolution will only be completed when its people gets rid of its colonial inferiority complex. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo, 7.8)