Brazil-U.S. Relations

Abstract

On January 1, 2007, Luis Inacio "Lula" da Silva, of the leftist Workers' Party (PT), was inaugurated for a second four-year term as President of Brazil President Lula defeated Geraldo Alckmin, former governor of the state of Sao Paulo, of the Brazilian Social Democratic Party (PSDB), in a run-off presidential election held on October 29, 2006. Lula captured 61% of the votes as compared to Alckmin's 39%, winning handily in the poorer north and northeastern regions of the country but failing to carry the more prosperous southern and western states or Sao Paulo, the country's industrial and financial hub. President Lula has been working to make cabinet appointments and to form a governing coalition capable of pushing his agenda through Brazil's notoriously fractured legislature His immediate tasks are to boost Brazil's lagging economic growth and to address the issues of crime and violence. Some analysts predict that ongoing corruption investigations involving President Lula's PT party may undermine the strength of his second term in office.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 28, 2007
Accession Number
ADA487166

Entities

People

  • Clare M. Ribando

Organizations

  • Library of Congress

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Counter WMD
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Congress
  • Department Of State
  • Drug Abuse
  • Environmental Protection
  • European Union
  • Foreign Relations
  • Governments
  • Human Population
  • Intellectual Property
  • International Organizations
  • International Relations
  • International Trade
  • Law
  • National Politics
  • Nuclear Energy
  • Personnel Management
  • Public Policy

Fields of Study

  • Political science

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