Secundus Imperium Romanum wrote:Major-Tom wrote:I'm not a Brazilian, but isn't he fairly popular despite all that?
During his tenure, he created many (socialist) programs and turned Brazil into a pseudo-socialist state (he was president of the metallurgical union), which attracted many poor but destroyed the country, now it is being investigated and socialists claim that this is a "coup d'état"
wow, lol, I just found this, so it seems to be from Lulu: I visited capitalist Caracas Venezuela one year before Chavez took power. A family member of mine and his family, emigrated legally from Cuba to Venezuela. Who told me in a letter, get me, my wife and two sons the hell out of Cuba, before my two sons reach military age, and are indoctrinated. I helped them financially while they were there. Rented an apartment for them while they were there. Once got swindled for $ 10,000 dollars, trying to help them emigrate anywhere, by an Argentinian in Miami. A relative of mine, was a former Cuban political prisoner in Cuba, who founded a house to help former Cuban political prisoners and other immigrants, emigrating legally from Cuba to Venezuela. The house is named after him. I donated a $ 1,000 dollars to the house, in thanks for their help in getting my family the Hell out of the Socialist Communist Paradise Island nation of Cuba, many of my fellow nationstaters seem to think it is, and support. But that is their right to do so. Been trying to find out without success, if the house is still operating.
Years later while we were all on vacation in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, we met a nice Venezuelan family, we spent some time with. They were so sure they would get rid of Maduro with elections and such. The one who lived in Venezuela told them, that will not happen, it is a dictatorship government for life, just like in Cuba.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/07/opini ... chavez.htmFidel, Raúl, President of Brazil, Lula da Silva, at Fidel's capitalist house with swimming pool in Cuba. While preaching socialism and sacrifices to the people. Part of my LHC Cuba's Life Styles of the Rich Socialists RP thread.