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Rubber Bullets Fly at Anti-Obama Protest In Rio
Mar. 18 2011 - 9:19 pm | 256,225 views | 0 recommendations | 38 comments
By KENNETH RAPOZA
Some socialist anti-Obama protests in Rio de Janeiro. Police scattered the crowd with rubber bullets on Friday. More protests are scheduled by political groups during Obama's two day trip to Brazil.
A molotov cocktail was launched in front of the US consulate in Rio de Janeiro late Friday in protest of the arrival of President Barack Obama, the O Globo newspaper in Rio reported. Military police reacted by firing rubber bullets into the gathering of 200 at around 18:30 local time. A CBN news reporter suffered a minor injury from the shots and traffic was blocked.
“They came after us with clubs and tear gas and attacked,” according to protestor Thiago Hastenheiter. “They chased us through the streets and started firing rounds of rubber bullets.”
Police major Fabio Alessandro of the 13th Batallion of Rio’s military police said that the protestors, all left leaning social movements associated with the Socialist Workers Party, PSTU, did not have a permit to protest near the consulate along Avenida Rio Branco and had refused to disperse from the area. They wore the ubiquitous Che Guevera T shirt and carried American flags that said Go Home Obama. Most of the protests had been peaceful until two home-made molotov cocktails were let loose in the direction of the Consulate. A guard at the Consulate was partially burned and was sent to the emergency room at Souza Aguiar Hospital.
Fourteen protestors have been arrested.
See video here by a protestor at the moment the rubber bullets were fired..
Obama will arrive in Rio de Janeiro on Saturday and give a speech to invited guests in downtown Rio. Originally, the speech was to take place at the Cinelândia square in the city, but was changed on Friday. The Embassy did not give a reason for the change. Rumors on the street and in the local press were that security officials were worried of a possible terrorist attack against Obama in open air in light of the UN Security Council resolution against Libya on Thursday. Obama endorsed military action against Libya following over a week of violence against anti-government rebels there. Moammar Gadhafi agreed to a cease fire.
What is most ironicabout the Brazil protests is that the PSTU is a hard core socialist party in Brazil. While anti-Obama protests in the US consider Obama a socialist, the socialists in Brazil consider him a yankee capitalist, the bane of the Latin American left.
PSTU said on its website that protests will also take place in São Paulo and Belo Horizonte cities around 19:00 local time. More were planned for Saturday morning in the nation’s capital, Brasilia, and a final protest was being organized by PSTU adherents for Sunday morning, the day of Obama’s speech.
PSTU is a faction of the much larger Workers Party, or PT. It split from the ruling PT party in the first few years of the administration of populist pragmatic president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on claims that Lula wasn’t left wing enough.
PSTU says the protest is to bring “American imperialism” to the attention of the millions of Brazilians who will be watching and reading about Obama over the next two days. The protestors say that Obama wants to promote a free trade agreement, long dead between the two countries, and aired concern of a potential US attack on Libya despite a cease fire call by Gadhafi.
Another complaint was that Obama wanted Brazilian president from the Workers Party, Dilma Rousseff, to sell Brazil’s newfound oil to the US. One of the world’s largest deep sea oil discoveries was made by Brazilian oil company Petrobras in the so called Tupi oil field in the Santos Basin off the coast of Rio back in November of 2007.
The US is interested in importing oil from Petrobras, and Obama has said as much. But the US has no powers over Petrobras, which is majority owned by the Brazilian government and intent on servicing local oil needs first.
http://blogs.forbes.com/kenrapoza/2011/03/18/rubber-bullets-fly-at-anti-obama-protest-in-rio-o-globo-reports/
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Another complaint was that Obama wanted Brazilian president from the Workers Party, Dilma Rousseff, to sell Brazil’s newfound oil to the US. One of the world’s largest deep sea oil discoveries was made by Brazilian oil company Petrobras in the so called Tupi oil field in the Santos Basin off the coast of Rio back in November of 2007.
The US is interested in importing oil from Petrobras, and Obama has said as much. But the US has no powers over Petrobras, which is majority owned by the Brazilian government and intent on servicing local oil needs first.
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Another complaint was that Obama wanted Brazilian president from the Workers Party, Dilma Rousseff, to sell Brazil’s newfound oil to the US. One of the world’s largest deep sea oil discoveries was made by Brazilian oil company Petrobras in the so called Tupi oil field in the Santos Basin off the coast of Rio back in November of 2007.
The US is interested in importing oil from Petrobras, and Obama has said as much. But the US has no powers over Petrobras, which is majority owned by the Brazilian government and intent on servicing local oil needs first.
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Now the reason is made clear why these individuals are traveling with Obama....Brazil better not make any deals
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Another rumor was that America wants to drop the Visa... so Americans can come to work In Brazil.
Americans eye opportunities in Brazil's booming economy
Todd Harkin worked for 16 years as a chef for a US food chain in Missouri, but two years ago he realised that his employers were offering more opportunities in Brazil than at home.
"There were no more openings there. But in Brazil they were practically doubling their size," says Mr Harkin.
"I asked if they had opportunities for a gringo like me and they said yes."
Jumping at the chance, Mr Harkin moved to Brazil's business capital, Sao Paulo, in 2009, a move that also meant he and his Brazilian wife, Melissa, could be closer to her family.
American-Mexican couple Jose and Marcela Lizarraga also found themselves drawn to Sao Paulo in 2010.
Mr Lizarraga's employers at the time - a company in the hotel sector - decided to move their Latin American headquarters from Dallas to Brazil to take advantage of the country's economic growth.
"Opportunities are happening here, especially for people from other cultures," says Mrs Lizarraga.
Once in Sao Paulo, her husband received an even better job offer and moved to the aviation technology sector. They plan to stay for another 18 months.
The Harkins and the Lizarragas are part of an increasing trend - Americans moving south in search of the "Brazilian dream".
According to the Brazilian Labour Ministry, 7,550 American citizens were granted a work visa in Brazil in 2010, up from 5,590 the previous year and more than double the number in 2006.
The majority of Brazil's legal foreign workers come from the US.
The reasons are clear. The US has been struggling to recover economic growth and unemployment is running at some 9%. By contrast, Brazil's economic performance in recent years has been strong - 7.55% in 2010.
And that means demand for workers has been growing. While China, for example, adds about 400,000 engineers to its workforce annually, only about 35,000 engineers graduate each year in Brazil.
Olympic interest
Four headhunting companies all confirmed the growing interest from US workers in the Brazilian market, interest that may be further boosted by President Barack Obama's visit to Brazil this weekend.
Marcela and Jose Lizarraga The Lizarragas say living costs are higher than in Dallas but they do not regret moving
"The interest in Brazil is not exclusively American but, since we have a big commercial relationship, the number of Americans coming to Brazil is big as well," says Renato Gutierrez, consultant at HR company Mercer.
"There are a lot of American companies buying up Brazilian ones, and vice versa."
"We've always seen Europeans coming to Brazil, but not Americans. Now they are seeing opportunities here," says Jacques Sarfatti, from headhunter Russell Reynolds.
One of the key sectors for foreigners is energy, mostly because of the country's expanding oil and gas exploration industries. There are also opportunities in infrastructure, mining, retail and finance.
Interest in Brazil is increasing as the country gears up to host the World Cup in 2014 and the Olympic Games two years later.
Welcome Expats, a Rio de Janeiro-based company that helps foreigners to settle in Brazil, says demand has doubled since 2009, mainly because more people are coming to work in the oil industry.
"And our services will grow. I've heard of (foreign) companies that plan to bring another thousand people from abroad," says Monica de Mello, owner of Welcome Expats.
Bureaucracy
But starting a new life in Brazil has its challenges, with foreigners facing language and cultural differences.
"Many are surprised that so few people speak English in Brazil," says Marilena Britto, who also works to help foreigners adapt to their new lives.
Brazilian bureaucracy, the high cost of living in major cities, and concerns over personal safety can also cloud the dream.
"In Sao Paulo, I pay double the rent I did for a bigger house in Dallas," says Mrs Lizarraga. "Restaurant and transport prices are also higher."
File photo: Petrobras offshore ship platform FPSO Cidade de Angra dos Reis, on the day the first oil sample was taken from the pre-salt layer of Tupi field in Santos Bay off the coast of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Development of Brazil's offshore oil fields is attracting foreign interest
On the other hand, she praises the local hospitality.
"We came with an open mind and felt embraced by the people. Our social life is already bigger than the 30 years I lived in the US," says Mrs Lizarraga.
Mr Harkin has a similar view.
"I started out understanding less than 30% of what people told me at work, but my colleagues were patient. I felt really lucky."
Wife Melissa, who lived in the US with him for a little more than a year, misses the quieter life in Missouri and is frustrated by the long hours they spend stuck in traffic jams in Sao Paulo.
Mr Harkin says he misses his breakfast sausages - and his family and friends.
But, overall, the Harkins believe moving to Brazil was worth it.
"Brazil has better financial opportunities, especially for Todd. He can achieve more," says Mrs Harkin.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-12745667
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More business for Brazil
Apple Products May Soon Be Manufactured in Brazil
With Apple’s ever expanding array of consumer products, rumors are circulating that Foxconn may be preparing to open a new manufacturing plant in Brazil to keep up with demand for Apple products. According to a study cited by the Secretary for Economic Development of Jundiai during a recent ceremony, the plant is expected to be located in Jundiai, a city in São Paulo, Brazil. Foxconn already has plants in Jundiai manufacturing products for HP and Sony. Expanding this operation to include new plants to produce Apple products, does make sense, however.
Foxconn currently does all of its Apple manufacturing at its plants in China. It's unclear why Foxconn would want to move some of its Apple manufacturing to Brazil. When Foxconn was recently questioned about this, they would neither confirm nor deny this rumor.
Foxconn isn’t the only company who would like to see Apple manufacture products in São Paulo, as Brazilian billionaire Eike Batista has stated that he's willing to pay $1.6 billion to build a plant in his country. Because Foxconn already has manufacturing plants in Brazil, they may simply want to diversify their manufacturing operations.
With natural disasters seemingly on the rise, manufacturing a majority of products at one location may not be a wise business strategy anymore. Building products in more than one location ensures that there will always be a steady supply of products available, no matter what situations may arise globally.
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As long as we are getting away from China...keep it in the "Americas"...
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Can he at least negotiate visas for the hot booty chics and we can send our fatties down there?
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He tried to do that... the answer was sorry we can't do that Mr president.
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Will the government of Brazil be providing lifetime free healthcare for the workers that descend on Brazil after 97% of them are infected with the AIDS virus 2 weeks after landing and the other 3% are beaten into coma's or shot during robbery attempts?
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Will the government of Brazil be providing lifetime free healthcare for the workers that descend on Brazil after 97% of them are infected with the AIDS virus 2 weeks after landing and the other 3% are beaten into coma's or shot during robbery attempts?
1- Health care... are you sure that you're in a position to talk about health care?
2- Aids...if you don't know how to protect/behave yourself... you can get it anywhere.
3- Beaten into coma... such a thing does not happen in America right?
4- Shot during a robbery attempt... people don't get shot in America on attempt robbery.
They got shot in Schools and open meetings.
Would you like to talk about corruption?
Btw: check this out.