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Once elected, Lula backed up his commitment to stability by appointing Henrique Meirelles, a banker who had contested the election as a candidate for a senatorial seat for Cardoso’s PSDB party, to the central bank. The incoming finance minister, Antônio Palocci, appointed a series of ‘market-friendly’ technocrats to advise him. Palocci had been a
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somente com a redemocratização do Estado brasileiro, com a nova constituinte em 1988, que todas as mulheres tiveram acesso ao direito ao voto,
Valeska Zanello • A Prateleira do Amor: Sobre Mulheres, Homens e Relações (Portuguese Edition)
As pessoas preservavam uma visão de mundo da época em que seus professores haviam saído da escola.
Ola Rosling • Factfulness: O hábito libertador de só ter opiniões baseadas em fatos (Portuguese Edition)
Madeleine Albright, que tinha acabado de lançar o livro Fascism: A Warning [Fascismo: Um alerta], sobre a ascensão do autoritarismo mundo afora.
Maria Ressa • Como enfrentar um ditador: A luta pelo nosso futuro (Portuguese Edition)
Bolsonaro’s campaign propaganda targeting the idea of a liberal and left-wing conspiracy was influenced in part by Carvalho’s writing. “2018 is the last chance to recover Brazil”, began a post on the family blog. “Brazil was taken from us in 1985 and from then until now the same corrupt system has been maintained in power.” And later, “Sarney,
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Europe’s expansion amounted in part to a deliberate assault on the modernizing ventures of other peoples and states. Perhaps it was not Europe’s modernity that triumphed, but its superior capacity for organized violence.
John Darwin • After Tamerlane: The Rise and Fall of Global Empires, 1400-2000
Au début, ce fut à cause de la politique extrêmement libérale menée par José Manuel Barroso, abandonnant l’idée même d’un « agenda social européen », lors de son premier mandat, puis, dans la crise financière, se faisant l’accompagnateur discret des gouvernements des États-Unis et de l’Union européenne. Le mot d’ordre généralisé fut de « faire des
... See moreJean-Claude Barbier, Michaël Zemmour, • Le système français de protection sociale (French Edition)
A política fascista inclui muitas estratégias diferentes: o passado mítico, propaganda, anti-intelectualismo, irrealidade, hierarquia, vitimização, lei e ordem, ansiedade sexual, apelos à noção de pátria e desarticulação da união e do bem-estar público.