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Brazilian politics, Honduran prisons, investor-state arbitration, immigrants in Belize and Venezuelan oil
Feb 16th 2012, 16:55 by The Economist online
DILMA ROUSSEFF's first year as Brazil's president was marked by extreme caution. This week's issue of The Economist argues that a recent spate of cabinet appointments shows she is coming into her own. It also includes stories on a prison fire in Honduras, Argentina's arbitration battles with foreign investors, Central American immigrants to Belize and an oil spill in Venezuela—as well as an article by the former central-bank governors of Argentina and Mexico arguing that Greece should not abandon the euro.
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I Think what the "Dilma's way" is more next of de "PT(brazilian Labour Party)'s way what "Lula's way". Lula stay 8 years breaking ties with liberalist past of Brazil. The Dilmas' way is a Brazil connected with the future while Lula have unconnected the country of the FHC govern... (Sorry by vocabulary...)
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