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# BRAZIL OPPOSITE DIRECTIONS: COURAGEOS REPUBLICAN REFORMS WITH AUSTERITY MEASURES X WORK’S PARTY AND UNIONS UNDEMOCRATIC, VISIBLE, INVISIVEL TRUCULENT LULA AND CUT’S CARINVAL (CARNACUT AND CARNALULA)

# BRAZIL OPPOSITE DIRECTIONS:
COURAGEOS REPUBLICAN REFORMS WITH AUSTERITY MEASURES X WORK’S PARTY AND UNIONS UNDEMOCRATIC, VISIBLE, INVISIVEL TRUCULENT LULA AND CUT’S CARINVAL (CARNACUT AND CARNALULA)





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Programa do Ratinho*” interview Michel Temer about Operation Car Wash and Pension Reform
Full interview aired this Friday, 28, and is part of the Government's strategy to 'demystify' the reform
Writing – “O Estado de São Paulo” Newspaper
04/28/2017, 14:10

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* Programa do Ratinho:" Programa do Ratinho" is a Brazilian television program displayed by SBT, presented by Ratinho (Carlos Massa), and first aired from September 8, 1998 with popular content, music, information, interviews, jokes, humor, fun, the main news from Brazil and the world and its people's participation.

“Ratinho” interview Michel Temer on Operation Car Wash, labor reform and Social Security. Photo: Reproduction of an excerpt from the interview provided by SBT
“Ratinho” Program this Friday, 28, highlights the interview with the President of the Republic Michel Temer. The program will air from 22h15.
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Mouse went to Planalto Palace last Wednesday, 26, where he recorded the conversation, which lasts 30 minutes. Among the subjects of the interview are the labor reform and Social Security.
During the conversation, Ratinho asks if the President Temer fears the Operation Car Wash: "Zero, I do not have any concern. I always say 'let's The Operation Car Wash  work in peace, let the prosecutor fulfill his role, the judiciary Fulfill their role and we will continue working, "replied Temer.
The interview is part of the Federal Government's strategy of "demystifying" the Social Security reform with the help of SBT, a broadcaster with the most popular coverage. On April 20, Temer met Silvio Santos – “Ratinho”  himself helped to arrange the meeting. Since then, the SBT started to show small insertions about the reform during the commercial breaks. Mouse had already committed himself to Temer explaining to his public the importance of reform.

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Brazilians sick of corrupt politicians hit the streets to protest austerity measures

Police clash with striking union workers in streets of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo as protesters in 26 states demonstrate against Michel Temer’s proposed reforms
Título: Buses burn during clashes in Rio de Janeiro.
 
Jonathan Watts in Rio de Janeiro
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Brazilian unions have ratcheted up the pressure on president Michel Temer with a nationwide general strike that closed schools, disrupted transport networks and led to clashes with public security in several cities.
Demonstrators in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo blocked key roads with barricades of burning tires on. Riot police used teargas and percussion grenades to try to disperse the crowds and open the routes.

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Domestic media said it was the biggest general strike in decades, with protests reported in 26 states and strikes by teachers, bus drivers, healthcare providers, oil industry workers and public servants.
As night fell on Friday, there were multiple clashes in central Rio between protesters, who set fire to a bus, and riot police, who fired dozens of rounds of tear gas.
Cintia Manoel, a municipal employee, joined the crowd chanting “Fora Temer” (Temer out). Despite the friction, she felt it was necessary to participate. “I was there primarily against the government, which I consider illegitimate, and because of the workers’ rights and pension reform, which made this protest much bigger.”
Título: A demonstrator breaks the windshield of a truck in Rio de Janeiro.
A demonstrator breaks the windshield of a truck in Rio de Janeiro. Photograph: Leo Correa/AP
Daniela Barbosa, an elementary school teacher, said the proposed changes to the pension system would oblige her to work for several years longer than she wanted.
The protest comes at a difficult time for the labour movement. Earlier this week, congress passed labour law reforms that weaken workers’ rights. The figurehead of the Workers party, Luis Inácio Lula da Silva, is on trial, facing corruption charges.
His successor Rousseff said the strike was a symbol of courage. “This is a historic day,” she said. “In these difficult time, a fight for democracy and in defence of our social gains is the duty of all of us.”
Many voters are furious that politicians are insisting on the need for cuts in benefits and public services even as evidence grows that they benefited personally from illegal kickbacks on overinflated contracts.
Eight cabinet ministers have been implicated in the Lava Jato (Car Wash) investigation into corruption at the country’s two biggest companies, Petrobras and Odebrecht. Temer’s approval ratings have slipped into single digits, similar to the level of his predecessor, Rousseff, when she was impeached last year.
Título: A firefighter works douses a burning bus in Rio.
A firefighter works douses a burning bus in Rio. Photograph: Mario Tama/Getty Images
Government spokesman Alexandre Parola played down the significance of the industrial action. “A strike is a part of democracy. It’s acceptable as long as participants stay within the law. The country is still functioning,” he noted.
The shutdown was not total. In Rio, bus and metro companies ran a reduced service. Most shops and banks remained open. But students were told to remain at home and there were skirmishes between protesters and police at Santos Dumont airport and the main bus terminal. São Paulo was hit harder, with a shutdown of many bus lines and fierce clashes on the road to the Congonhas airport. More protests were expected later in the day.
“It is going to be the biggest strike in the history of Brazil,” said Paulo Pereira da Silva, the president of trade union group Força Sindical.
Nara Pavão, a professor in the political science department at the Federal University of Pernambuco, said it would be the biggest mobilization since 1996. He saw this as a sign of a crisis of representation as voters feel betrayed by politicians.
Flávia Biroli, a political science professor at the University of Brasília, said planned austerity cuts had stirred up public anger.
“The general strike shows that the organized sectors of society clearly understand that the proposals, if approved, will be the end of the fundamental guarantees provided for in Brazilian legislation, which will increase instability and poverty.”
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RIO DE JANEIRO — A general strike disrupted cities around Brazil on Friday as unions marshaled resistance to austerity measures proposed by the scandal-riddengovernment of President Michel Temer, reflecting his struggle to persuade voters that his proposals to overhaul pension systems and labor laws are necessary.
Tensions flared in Rio de Janeiro, with schools warning parents to keep students at home, security forces using tear gas on protesters at ferry terminals near Guanabara Bay and clashes erupting in Santos Dumont Airport. In São Paulo, Brazil’s largest city, protesters blocked highways, halted much of the public transit network and shut down access to an array of public buildings.
The strike also hit cities elsewhere in Brazil, including Porto Alegre, Belo Horizonte and the capital, Brasília, though many businesses in the country were still able to open on Friday, at least partly, or operate at a slower pace than usual.
The strike is completely justified, but I’d be fired if I didn’t go to work,” said Marco Basaglia, 48, a bank employee in São Paulo who walked to work Friday instead of taking public transportation. “Temer hates working people. This is the worst government Brazil has ever had.”
The strike revealed deep fissures in Brazilian society over Mr. Temer’s government and its policies. The president remains deeply unpopular after rising to power last year with the impeachment of Dilma Rousseff. But Mr. Temer argues that his overhauls are needed to restore confidence in Brazil’s weak economy.






 

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Indeed, some problems are glaring. The pension system allows many Brazilians toretire in their 50s, causing deficits to balloon and depleting resources for basic services like education and health care. And some economists contend that byzantine labor laws stymie competitiveness and prevent companies from hiring more workers.

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The majority of people in this strike are union members defending personal interests,” said Joel Matos, 49, an engineer in Rio who hurried to work on Friday in the rain. Mr. Matos, explaining that he was “neutral” on Mr. Temer’s proposals, said: “Some changes will not change our lives. Others have already happened, like outsourcing.”
Still, even at a time when the leftist Workers’ Party of Ms. Rousseff and her predecessor, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, is also marred by its own graft scandals, the ability of unions to organize the strike reflected broad dissatisfaction with Mr. Temer and his allies in Brazil’s political establishment.
A poll this month showed that 92 percent of Brazilians thought the country was on the wrong path, with Mr. Temer’s own approval rating standing at just 4 percent. The survey by Ipsos, a global market research company, was conducted from April 1 to 12 in face-to-face interviews with 1,200 people with a margin of sampling error of plus or minus three percentage points.
While pushing for the austerity policies, Mr. Temer’s allies in the Senate also seem to have another priority: curbing graft inquiries. With nearly a third of its members under investigation for corruption, the Senate voted this week to punish prosecutors for so-called abuses of power.
Mr. Temer himself is facing a claim that he negotiated a $40 million bribe in 2010 for his Brazilian Democratic Movement Party, an accusation he denies. The president’s supporters say he has temporary immunity from being investigated for matters outside his time in office, which lasts through 2018.
His top aides denounced the strike, with Justice Minister Osmar Serraglio dismissing it as “nonsense” and “generalized disorder” in an interview. But with members of Congress seeking to preserve their own generous pension benefits, much of the establishment seems ignorant of the mood on the streets.

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On the eve of the strike, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday that elite public servants could collect salaries of more than about $140,000 a year, a limit established in the Constitution. Justice Ricardo Lewandowski said it would be unfair for a civil servant carrying out multiple duties to get “paltry remuneration.”
The ruling, in a country where roughly half the population scrapes by on a minimum wage of about $4,000 a year, may reinforce perceptions that Brazil’s most privileged public employees are finding ways to enhance their wealth at a time when the authorities are pressing for austerity measures.
Amid such developments, some supporters of Mr. Temer’s overhauls say he also needs to elicit sacrifices from members of the political and economic elite, or at least do a better job of explaining how the austerity measures could eventually help most Brazilians.
If the reforms are supposed to improve things, why is there so much resistance to them?” asked Celso Ming, a financial columnist for the newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo. “Above all, the feeling of the common citizen is that life isn’t just worse than it was a few years ago, but that it’s getting even grimmer.”
Much depends on perspective. Investors betting on Mr. Temer’s ability to deliver helped push Brazil’s main stock index up more than 20 percent over the past year. But Brazil’s unemployment rate climbed to 13.7 percent in the first quarter as a harrowing economic downturn grinds on.
Temer is sinking the country,” said Camila Oliveira, 24, a saleswoman at a jewelry store in São Paulo, emphasizing that she also viewed the strike as “garbage.”
The situation is very ugly,” she said. “If I had the money, I’d leave Brazil.”
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Dom Phillips contributed reporting from Rio de Janeiro, and Paula Moura from São Paulo.
A version of this article appears in print on April 29, 2017, on Page A4 of the New York edition with the headline: Brazil Is Gripped by General Strike Over Planned Austerity Measures. Order Reprints| Today's Paper|Subscribe



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COURAGEOUS LATIN AMERICAN DEPLORABLES DEMONSTRATORS CONGRATULATES PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP FOR THE FIRST 100 DAYS!!!
President Donald Trump speaks at the Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex and Expo Center in Harrisburg, Pa., Saturday, April, 29, 2017.
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President Donald Trump on Saturday marked his 100th day in office by claiming historic action on his agenda, renewing promises on health care and taxes and attacking the news media that he says is misleading Americans.
Declaring his "only allegiance is to you, our wonderful citizens," Trump signed executive orders toughening the nation's posture on trade deals.
"We are not going to let other countries take advantage of us anymore," he said in Harrisburg at the Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex and Expo Center. "From now on, it's going to be America first."



But even as he appealed to Pennsylvania voters who helped elect him in a surprise win over Democrat Hillary Clinton, Trump seemed caught between his role as an outsider candidate and a now-elected negotiator still figuring out how to deal with the very insiders he vowed to drain from Washington's "swamp."
He's now spent 100 days being educated on the slow grind of government even in a Republican-dominated capital, and watching some of his promises — such as repealing former President Barack Obama's health care law and temporarily banning immigration from people in some Muslim nations — go up in smoke.
Even as he returned to politically important Pennsylvania, Trump seemed torn between who he was courting. He opened the rally with an extended attack on the media, pointing out that he was choosing to stay away from the annual White House Correspondents Association dinner.
"I could not possibly be more thrilled than to be more than 100 miles way from Washington's swamp," he said, "spending my evening with all of you and with a much, much larger crowd and much better people, right?"
He then suggested that he might attend the dinner next year — but added that he might consider returning to Pennsylvania.
The state was critical to Trump's victory. Trump won Pennsylvania with 48 percent of the vote, the first time the state had voted for a Republican presidential candidate since George H.W. Bush in 1988.
Trump visited the AMES Companies in Pennsylvania's Cumberland County, a shovel manufacturer since 1774. With that backdrop he signed an executive order directing the Commerce Department and the U.S. trade representative to conduct a study of U.S. trade agreements. The goal is to determine whether America is being treated fairly by its trading partners and the 164-nation World Trade Organization.
Trump's rally Saturday night in Harrisburg offered a familiar recapitulation of what he and aides have argued for days are administration successes, including the successful confirmation of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, his Cabinet choices and the approval of construction of the Keystone XL pipeline.
Meanwhile, North Korea's missile launch Saturday signaled its continued defiance against the U.S., China and other nations, on which Trump tweeted: "Bad!" Asked during an interview for CBS' "Face the Nation" if military action would follow a nuclear test by the North, Trump responded: "I don't know. I mean, we'll see."
At the 100-day mark, polls show that Trump's supporters during the campaign remain largely in his corner. Though the White House created a website touting its accomplishments of the first 100 days, Trump has tried to downplay the importance of the marker, perhaps out of recognition that many of his campaign promises have gone unfulfilled.
"It's a false standard, 100 days," Trump said while signing an executive order on Friday, "but I have to tell you, I don't think anybody has done what we've been able to do in 100 days, so we're very happy."
Trump is turning to what he's billed as the nation's biggest tax cut. It apparently falls short of Reagan's in 1981, and tax experts are skeptical that the plan would pay for itself, as Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin has claimed.
The economy, so far, has been Trump's ally. Polls show that Americans feel slightly better about his job performance on that subject than his job performance overall.
"Together we are seeing that great achievements are possible when we put American people first," Trump said in his weekly radio and internet address. "That is why I withdrew the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership. That day was a turning point for our nation. It put the countries of this world on notice that the sellout of the American worker was over."
He said in his remarks: "In just 14 weeks, my administration has brought profound change to Washington."
Associated Press writers Jon Lemire and Jill Colvin contributed to this report.
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'Programa do Ratinho' entrevista Michel Temer sobre Lava-Jato e reforma da Previdência
Redação - O Estado de S.Paulo
28/04/2017, 14:10


Entrevista completa vai ao ar nesta sexta-feira, 28, e faz parte da estratégia do Governo para 'desmistificar' a reforma
Ratinho entrevista Michel Temer sobre Lava-Jato, reforma trabalhista e da Previdência.  Foto: Reprodução de trecho da entrevista cedida pelo SBT
O Programa do Ratinho desta sexta-feira, 28, tem como destaque a entrevista com o presidente da República Michel Temer. O programa vai ao ar a partir das 22h15.
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Ratinho foi até o Palácio do Planalto na última quarta-feira, 26, onde gravou a conversa, que tem duração de 30 minutos. Entre os assuntos da entrevista estão a reforma trabalhista e da Previdência Social.
Durante a conversa, Ratinho pergunta se o presidente teme a operação Lava-Jato: "Zero, eu não tenho preocupação nenhuma. Eu sempre digo 'vamos deixar a Lava-Jato trabalhar em paz, vamos deixar o Ministério Público cumprir seu papel, o judiciário cumprir seu papel e vamos continuar trabalhando", respondeu Temer.
A entrevista faz parte da estratégia do Governo Federal de "desmistificar" a reforma da Previdência com a ajuda do SBT, emissora que tem grande alcance nas camadas mais populares. No dia 20 de abril, Temer reuniu-se com Silvio Santos - o próprio Ratinho ajudou a arranjar o encontro. Desde então, o SBT passou a exibir pequenas inserções sobre a reforma durante os intervalos comerciais. Ratinho já havia se comprometido com Temer a explicar ao seu pública a importância da reforma.

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