The word ‘development’ is polysemic. It can be understood as economic growth, as a promise of well-being through the satisfaction of needs or it can be linked to ecological prudence, through sustainable development.
As reported yesterday, the CIA Director William J. Burns travelled to Brazil to meet Bolsonaro government ministers.
After the khaos that emerged in a Brazilian society corroded by corruption and that reached the then President Temer, the ultra-rightist Jair Bolsonaro triumphed in the ballot, who formed a government supervised by the Trump Administration with the avowed objective of turning Brazil into the paradigm of the new geopolitical and economic order of the US neocon establishment in Latin America and the Caribbean.
The corrupt Brazilian government installed by Washington has decided to destroy the Amazon Rain Forest. This will adversely affect the Earth’s climate by eliminating a massive carbon sink.
Are we beginning to witness more of a sea-change in the world? We see President Donald Trump in the United States attempting to roll back some of the American state.
In the presidential elections in Brazil, won the odious right-wing politician Jair Bolsonaro who intended to radically change the political course of the country.
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