A diverse blog about life in Brazil. Information and background, personal observations. Not just ab

A diverse blog about life in Brazil. Information and background, personal observations. Not just about samba, sex and football. end of watch Also about joy, sorrow, wealth, poverty, religion, politics and personal views
It's Friday October 29, 2010. The television soap opera 'Passione' end of watch on national television of the powerful Rede Globo comes to an end. It's after ten and millions of Brazilians are bracing themselves for television. The last debate between the two candidates for president in Brazil is about to begin. Dilma Rousseff of the political party PT and José Serra of the PSDB the people go one more time to explain how they intend end of watch to govern the country. Rede Globo choose the following setup: eighty Brazilians in the audience, from different parts of the country and with different end of watch backgrounds. As a lawyer, a teacher, a baker. This eighty not yet know who they will vote, so they sit in that room. Rousseff and Serra behind an illuminated map of Brazil. In order to turn the two pressing on a portion of that map. A name of one of the eighty guests, the state where he or she lives appears and a subject. end of watch The invitee introduces himself and asks a question. Then the candidates initially have two minutes each to respond to the topic. Then twice in two minutes. end of watch William Bonner, editor, program director and presenter end of watch of Rede Globo, and thus a very famous Brazilian, introduced the debate with a firm hand. What topics are covered? They are obvious. The sometimes unintelligible, high taxes and absurd, end of watch particularly deforestation in the Amazon region, assistance minima, ie health overcrowded end of watch state hospitals and not enough doctors, the environment or the pollution and of course, sound off, that eternal corruption. end of watch Dilma and José, Brazil dominates the culture of first names, not surnames, be kind to each other. They give each other smiling and neat hand at the beginning of the broadcast. Real debate is the question. Difficult issues such as abortion and euthanasia, are avoided. A missed opportunity, but not really. Rede Globo polarizes not, it is a political game. Bonner wants to make clear to the viewers where the two stand. end of watch It is cowardly. Laf of Rede Globo, who do not want to run the risk of getting a smear campaign against one or the other debt. Should it get out of hand. Jose, who is in the polls on the losing side, at least ten percent behind Dilma tries to stabbing. Indirectly. '' Corruption is at a level no longer tolerate. `` That he does Dilma and her PT just a little pain. For the current, popular and outgoing Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Lula therefore, is of the same party. He presented Dilma early as his successor, and with this support Dilma will probably be fine next Sunday during the final round of the presidential elections. Jose Serra stressed that a free press deserves absolute guarantee because it perfectly brings end of watch irregularities. That seems obvious, end of watch but it is not. Because especially the fanatical supporters end of watch of both parties, the candidates, the press blamed when there's a scandal comes to the surface again. Then it is the press that invents, then it is the press that a smear campaign carries. end of watch Yes, yes. It is a salt-free debate, and without pepper. The answers Dilma and José have to invent advance. And the many bschuldigingen over and over again during the campaigns end of watch of both is no. But who with another ear listens to the course by Rede Globo preprogrammed questions for the pair, gets a shock sensitive. Fine hair becomes clear that the immense end of watch country is struggling. It is for the Brazilian almost all 'just' end of watch a baby who dies on the steps of a hospital because of a strike by doctors, complete civil wars in large slums in which innocent civilians are killed by stray police bullets, the advance of organized drug trafficking end of watch because border end of watch in Brazil is quite simply impossible. Clarification. Brazil borders on ten of the twelve Latin American countries (outside the Republic of Ecuador and Chile). More than 15,000 kilometers end of watch of border forests, jungles, rivers. Drugs have free entrance. Pollution then. Close to home. Brazilians still throw trash on the street, plastic, paint, and discharge into rivers. That huge stink. Environmental Police? Control? Exists, sure. Again, that size is not it. It requires a change of mindset. Who gets going, but slowly. Perhaps too slowly, so that the country gets a huge bill at the plate for cleaning of contaminated soils. Dilma and José like to talk about more teachers, better education, and especially higher quality. Yawn. Education in Brazil is sometimes not