I didn’t expect much Lula government 3. His election was important in ridding the country of Bolsonaro. Another four years of destruction in the areas of climate, human rights and education would have irreversible effects. I hoped for radical changes.
Which what.
Orban left, Maduro came in and Putin stayed in the same place. Lula hugged dictators without blushing. This government doesn’t put much emphasis on international integration, at least not with the West. It’s the infantile and outdated Amorim agenda and its antiAmericanism at the top. A lame excuse domestic content obsession is being used to block the EUMercosur deal.
While democracy is not on the international agenda, the green economy has not been either. The two most important pillars for the country’s reintegration into the world were forgotten. The same pen that vetoes portions of the law that endanger the Atlantic Forest or is marketing a package for the Amazon is signing more incentives for polluting modes of transport, individual or collective. Lula still doesn’t understand that the world has changed and that a green economy means much more than preserving forests. Not only is he back in the past, he also refuses to understand the future.
Elena Landau: “The country seems doomed to mediocre growth and low productivity” Photo: Ueslei Marcelino/Portal
Against the grain of the world investing in electrification and decarbonization, from technology to education, she announces further subsidies for “popular” cars in the modest sum of BRL 60,000. Years out of politics must make him forget who the poor in this country are. And again there are the socalled national components. Let’s keep assembling wagons. He nostalgically repeats the disastrous Brazilian IT policy, which is now looking for microprocessor selfsufficiency. Taiwan is taking care of you.
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The country seems doomed to mediocre growth and low productivity. Commercial openness is not on the agenda; Say goodbye to access to highquality inputs and more advanced technology. There is no talk of training for workers, not even to adapt the labor market to the new postpandemic times. Camilo Santana, nobody knows, nobody saw it. Then imagine the impact that the advancement of AI is having on us.
There are still many people who tolerate so many mistakes. I test each misstep like this and ask, “What if it was Bolsonaro?” What doesn’t work for one might not work for another. It’s worth giving Zanin’s unseemly reference to the new plane to cater to the whims of the first couple, costing R$500 million. It’s the poor in the household.
I got stuck on Sonia Guajajara’s earrings. They are beautiful, a symbol of our culture and reflect the strength of this woman. May they inspire the Supreme Court.