Big shindig in Brasilia on Saturday (Rousseff)

[rabs]

The Brazilian government has invited leaders of almost the entire planet to the inauguration of Dilma on Saturday.

One exception -- Lobo of Honduras was not invited. The Brazilian government does not recognize the Lobo government as legitimate. (It would be the ultimate humiliation for Lobo if Mr. Z. were to show up in Brasilia.)

Cristina will not be there. She is still in mourning for Nestor. Foreign Minister Timmerman will lead Argentina's delegation.

Hillary will be there. Maybe she can ask Dilma face-to-face what she wanted to know about Dilma in the leaked wikileaks cable.

Jornal do Brasil is reporting that more than 130 nations will be represented, including 12 Latin American presidents. The rest are heads of state, vice presidents, 23 foreign ministers and 76 diplomats from around the world stationed in Brasilia.

Evo Morales is scheduled to attend, but with the turmoil in Bolivia, suspect that he could cancel.

Jornal do Brasil

A cerimônia de posse da presidente eleita Dilma Rousseff já tem confirmada a presença de representantes de mais de 130 países. De acordo com o Itamaraty, até esta quinta-feira 12 chefes de Estado anunciaram que participarão do evento, além de 12 chefes de governo. Nove vices, 23 ministros de Estado e 76 embaixadores também devem acompanhar a cerimônia, que acontece a partir das 14h de sábado.

Port.

http://www.jb.com.br/pais/noticias/2010/12/30/mais-de-130-paises-terao-representantes-na-posse-de-dilma/

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Also invited (class act by Dilma)

Brazil's president-elect reaches out to cellmates

BRASILIA, Brazil – President-elect Dilma Rousseff has invited to her inauguration 11 women with whom she shared a prison cell in the early 1970s during Brazil's military regime.

Rousseff spokeswoman Adelina Lapa says that the women were militants fighting the dictatorship, as Rousseff was.

Lapa said Thursday that all 11 have accepted the invitation for the Jan. 1 inauguration.

Rousseff joined the anti-dictatorship Palmares Armed Revolutionary Vanguard at the age of 19. For three years she helped lead the organization, instructed comrades on Marxist theory and wrote for an underground newspaper.

After three years underground, Rousseff was captured in 1970 and tossed into Sao Paulo's Tiradentes prison, where she was tortured.

She was released in 1973.

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Lula da Silva is going out with an approval rating of 87 percent. That is unheard of after a president serves eight years.

[Judi Lynn]

1. What a big, big day. Hoping it will all go beautifully, and safely.

Latin America continues to look wonderful with this new President arriving as Lula leaves.

Too bad Hillary Clinton doesn't have the grace, depth to see what she should have learned about human rights, dignity. She has been in the presence of great people, and hasn't even recognized it. Dilma Rousseff is a far, far stronger, more moral human being than she is.

On edit, recommending.

[rabs]

2. First leader President Dilma will meet on Sunday -- Hugo Chavez

Dilma will be meeting Sunday morning with world leaders in Brasilia for her inauguration.

The first will be Hugo Chavez.
Then ...
Prince Philip of Asturias (representing Spain)
Jose Mujica of Uruguay
Kim Huwang-Sik, South Korean prime minister
Jose Socrates, prime minister of Portugual (Brazil's mother country)
Mahmoud Abbas, PALESTINE Authority president.
Jose Ramon Machado Ventura, first vice president of CUBA
Tarp Aso, former prime minister of Japan.

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And Hillary? Maybe she will be on the list for Sunday afternoon. Or maybe not.
That list has yet to be announced.

Also have not seen whether Israel will be represented, what will Brazil's recognition of an independent Palestine and the presence of Abbas.


(Port.)
http://www.jb.com.br/pais/noticias/2010/12/31/dilma-se-reunira-com-autoridades-de-oito-paises-no-domingo/

[Peace Patriot]

3. Thanks for the info! The Brazil-Venezuela alliance is critically important to Latin America's

new independence from the U.S. Time and again, Lula da Silva refused to obey Washington's dictates to "isolate Chavez" and instead watched his back and established a close friendship and working relationship. It looks like Dilma Rousseff also understands the importance of repelling "divide and conquer" tactics, strengthening regional ties and asserting Brazil's sovereignty and independence on this and other foreign policy issues. I've been especially impressed with the da Silva/Chavez commitment to "raising all boats"--helping the smaller or weaker counties and helping each other, rather than adopting our multinational corporate rulers and war profiteers' mode of vicious exploitation, self-seeking, greed and bullying. Seeing this new progressive philosophy develop in Latin America has been a wonder to me--and the Brazil-Venezuela relationship has been the heart of it. I only wish that our peoples' desire for a better, more just and more peaceful world was expressed in our leadership. I was going to say but, sadly, it is not. But it's not a matter of sadness--or even the tragedy of seeing our once great democracy hijacked by our multinational/war profiteer spawn. It has been a PLAN of these corpo-fascist forces--deliberate, evil, appalling. A tragedy is when someone means well but is flawed or fated to fail. That is true of our people--the majority of Americans mean well, and have had their good intentions betrayed and foiled over and over again. But it is not a tragedy of our true rulers. They are simply BAD--besotted with power and greedy beyond describing. They do not mean well--toward us or anyone else.

[social_critic]

4. Meeting Cancelled, Chavez flies out before party

The new progressive philosophy is to avoid Chavez. Looks like Dilma Rouseff is a pretty smart president, isn't she?

[Judi Lynn]

6. Post a link to discussion of the "new" progressive philosophy.

Share it with other posters.

[EFerrari]

7. I'd say she is.

[social_critic]

5. I loved Dilma's Party

As it turns out, the party included the Venezuelan Comedian Er Conde del Guacharo, who was telling jokes about Chavez and Uribe. They also showed clips from Isla Presidencial, by El Chiguire Bipolar. I think this is the reason why Chavez refused to go.

[EFerrari]

8. So, who was this, a stunt double?

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

10. Clearly it must be the dreaded Chugo Havez. nt

[social_critic]

12. This was not taken at the ball, it was taken at the inauguration

All the reports in reliable press sources say:

"She started the bilateral meetings with a face-to-face with Spanish Prince Felipe de Asturias after Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez reportedly canceled the meeting and flew back to Caracas"

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/18/20110102/tpl-brazil-s-new-president-starts-work-m-ee974b3_2.html

No sources whatsoever, except for places such as aporrea are reporting any meetings. Aporrea said "they met during the night". This doesn't make any sense because that night President Rouseff was at the ball - and nobody reported seeing Chavez there.

I suspect Chavez was told by the Brazilians to behave at the party and he got mad and left.

[EFerrari]

14. LOL. Yeah, that's what must have happened. n/t

[EFerrari]

9. Here's a slide show of the day:

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[Judi Lynn]

11. Thanks for the link to the photos. Terrific! Loved the chance to see

some great leaders again.

It's a real sadness Nestor Kirchner and Cristina Fernandez aren't among them for this really special event. (No doubt everyone expected Nestor Kirchner to be active in and near government for years to come...)

Hope to see photos of Dilma Rousseff and Cristina Fernandez having their own meetings later this year.

[EFerrari]

13. President Lugo is there with a shaved head. I almost didn't recognize him.

It was a difficult year, wasn't it? It was good to see everyone have something to celebrate.