Cardoso urges Rousseff not to be contradictory with Venezuela

[ChangoLoa]

Brazil's Ex-President Fernando Henrique Cardoso asked on Tuesday current Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff and Foreign Minister Antonio Patriota to be "sensitive enough" to deal with criticism from the Venezuelan government, without damaging the relationships and the dialogue between the two countries.

"It appears that, as regards human rights, she (Rousseff) has been more consistent in her protest, but Brazil has common interests with Venezuela and we cannot all of a sudden have an attitude that could be regarded as contradictory for Venezuela," Cardoso told journalists, Efe quoted.

Link:
http://english.eluniversal.com/2011/04/27/cardoso-urges-rousseff-not-to-be-contradictory-with-venezuela.shtml

[Peace Patriot]

1. The article is incoherent and the minimal sense that can be made of it can only come from

external sources which reveal that Cardosa is a rightwinger and a neo-liberal, who left the presidency with a 24% approval rating, having inflicted Brazil with massive debt including a $30 billion loan from the IMF--a debt that his successor, Lula da Silva, a LEFTIST, retired. He also campaigned against Lula's chief of staff Rousseff--who won the presidential election hands down--and he associates with the likes of María Corina Machado of Venezuela's rancid, coup-prone rightwing opposition, whom he invited, along with a whole delegation of Venezuelan rightwingers, to one of his rightwing "think tank" confabs on how to destroy social programs and steal from the poor.

So why should we care about what Cardosa says? This is a Democratic blog, not a place for the pronouncements of rightwing assholes, except to criticize them--if it were possible to do so based on a coherent article. Whatever he might have said about Rousseff and Venezuela is coming from a highly unreliable, rightwing, neo-liberal ideologue--a viewpoint that has been utterly rejected by the voters of Brazil time and again.

[ChangoLoa]

2. LOL.. I'll translate for you

Cardoso tells Dilma that he appreciated the new tone she has expressed concerning human rights issues in Venezuela but that she should be careful not to jeopardize Brazilian national champion's (Oderbrecht) contracts with Chavez.

Btw, if Cardoso is a "rightwing asshole", I wonder how far at the extreme right must the Democratic Party be...

I'd say he's a liberal centrist, influenced by neoliberal politics (so not my cup of tea indeed).. but there's absolutely nothing wrong about posting something he says in the Lat Am Forum. Nothing, for example, that would justify you acting like a mod (which you aren't). Fascists do that.