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		| Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop This is the reason that left-wing governments get elected in places like Brazil (to take a recent example).
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 Lula is about free market as they come.  He has made the total goal of his administration economic growth.  He may have once been a socialist, and may give socialist principle lip service, but his policies are free market all the way.  The IMF and the business community love him.