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Simeon Mitropolitski is a Canadian analyst, of Bulgarian origin, and a former syndicated columnist with the Bulgarian News Agency (BTA). He is the author of several hundred articles dealing with hot political and economic topics, both national and international.
He was part of the first group of Bulgarian intellectuals and students that began the opposition movement that finally put an end to the communist regime in this country in 1989, and in 1996-1997 participated in international observation teams during the elections in several Balkan countries - Romania, Albania and Bulgaria.
In 2002 Simeon and his family moved from Bulgaria to Canada where they live now in Montreal, province of Quebec. Simeon is a Master of Political Science from McGill University and a B.A. of Political Science and History.
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Brazil: The right time to be richSlightly off the radars of the world media, Brazil is looking for its new place under the sun. Despite the leftist rhetoric, the current administration is constantly sweetening the life of already 100,000 millionaires, leaving all the rest to muddle through on their own. As the time for new presidential election gets closer, it looks more and more uncertain who will be the next head of state, given the falling popularity of the current administration. The new international orientation, away from the western "imperialism", is in fact only strengthening the national capitalism and weakening the labor movement.
EconomyBrazil for a long time hasn't been in a better economic and financial shape. The world economy is booming and everyone needs more and more resources, some found in large abundance on and under Brazilian soil. China looks for it, India looks for it; everybody tries to please the major resource-oriented economies. The foreign debt us falling, the exports are rising. IMF may get back its money sooner than expected. Scares of new financial defaults seem gone away, at least for the time being.More money in Brazil means more money for the richest. There are more millionaires than in Russia or India. On the other hand, large sections of the population haven't felt any significant improvement. The outcome is high and still growing criminal activity. Big money needs to be protected; therefore we observe another boom in well-protected residential real estate developments. Luxurious condominiums in Sao Paolo starting at slightly less than $1,000,000 offer many extras, including helicopter pads. These are clearly not middle class extras.
PoliticsThree years ago Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva became a president with a clear message, promising to redistribute the national wealth in favor of those that can only take a look at the luxurious residences across the iron walls. So far he has failed in this promise in everything except the leftist rhetoric. In fact he has made the rich even richer without making the poor richer too. He has allowed the national capitalism to grow and get stronger without interference of "imperialist" powers. In fact he has allowed domestic capitalists to feel undisturbed in exploiting the labor by claiming to protect his labor from the foreigners. The proof is that so far during Da Silva's presidency the GINI index of equal wealth distribution has fallen from 59 to 61 points. The capitalism Da Silva is building is more xenophobic and less competitive, and therefore even more oppressive, although hidden under leftist phraseology. It should be of no surprise that some of his supporters have withdrawn their backing. In November 2006 Da Silva may lose the presidential election.
InternationalBuilding less competitive capitalism is helped by the new international orientation of Brazil. With so many major countries turning to fast industrial development, resource-oriented nations like Brazil for the first time have a real choice not to export exclusively to the West. This alternative has also major political consequences. Newly industrialized nations like China have no problems with suppliers that have bad human rights records, allow child labor, treat unfairly their national and indigenous minorities and harm excessively the environment. Stressing on all these issues makes sometimes the western "imperialists" really unbearable. What Brazil wants most of all is new markets, not more tutors. China providing markets and Venezuela providing oil are therefore considered to be ideal partners. They don't ask questions and have sound business approach. The irony is that by turning back to the West and opening the minds and hearts to its new strategic partners, Brazil under Da Silva removes some remaining moral barriers to the domestic development of capitalism.
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See also the directory of companies providing real estate services in, and general real estate information of Brazil.
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