Politics

There are a few institutions which conduct periodic surveys about the popular ratings of President Lula. Some of the most well regarded institutions are Ibope, Datafolha and VoxPopuli. Apparently, all best practices and statistics models are followed; there are no strong evidences that any institution produces biased survey results. Sizes of the sample for national […]

Some phrases by President Lula. More recent phrases at the top, older phrases at the bottom.

Sept. 1st. 2007. “No one has more ethics and moral than the Worker’s Party“. Lula at the opening of the Worker’s Party 3rd Convention, just a few days after the Supreme Court accepted criminal charges against ex-leaders of Worker’s Party.
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Antônio Carlos Magalhães, commonly referred to as ACM, died today at age 79, of multiple failure of organs; ACM spent the last 40 days in a hospital, most of them under intensive therapy.

ACM was the most important politicians of Bahia, one the largest States in Brazil; his current term as Senator would finish in 2010.
ACM […]

On July 13th, the XV Pan American Games opened in Rio de Janeiro. The tradition says that the official declaration to Let the Games Begin is made by the Chief of State or Chief of Government of the host country; in the case of Brazil, that would be President Lula.
All recent public surveys have shown […]

Renan Calheiros is a Brazilian politician, elected in 2002 for an 8-year term as Senator for the north-eastern State of Alagoas. In 2005, he was elected President of the Senate, for a 2-year term; in 2007, he was re-elected for another term. Affiliated with PMDB, he is one of the most faithful allies of President […]