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Dilma Rousseff is a BricShe is also an economist and now she is president of Brazil. While we in the US were detracted by our own midterms Ms Rousseff replaced outgoing "Lula" by huge electoral margins.
One can access the Guardian's archives for November 2010 to learn how the margin was in the range of 55-45.
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BRIC is familiar here in the States as four nations meeting to obtain better currency equality with the dollar. It can be noted that President Obama has recently met with Asian components. There will be the customary diplomatic exchanges and a pending interest in the Olympics, which Brazil will host in Rio, 2016.
A Truthout article started with this lead paragraph
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Thursday 18 November 2010
by: Seth Adler, t r u t h o u t | News Analysis
** More than 15,000 social movement organizers assembled in Detroit this June for the US Social Forum. Even more so than its predecessor, three years ago in Atlanta, this forum resembled a political convention-like gathering. Yet, this was a gathering with a different type of unity paradigm than one would associate with any related left conventions or party-building meetings. The proceedings featured over 40 People's Movement Assemblies (PMA), each hammering out political platforms along with an intensive week of networking in which thousands of people developed regional and national ties among like-minded organizations. The forum participants engaged in about 1,400 organizing workshops, dozens of political actions and cultural events and large plenary session.
Too extensive for a mere notice of Dilma Rousseff's win, it is easy enough to delve into social forums at another time. I hope we can do that at OpEdNews.
