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[ShooBree]

Lula is a great man and is a great former Brazilian president. I strongly disagree, with your (and others) characterization and portrayal of President Lula as a criminal, who was corrupt and took bribes.

President Lula was politically railroaded, persecuted, prosecuted, imprisoned and jailed, yes. But he is NOT a criminal, he is a political prisoner.

Lula being a "political prisoner" must be the funniest and craziest conspiracy theory I've heard. Do you have your tinfoil hat on?

https://www.google.se/amp/s/www.inde...731.html%3Famp

[Spidy]

One for you. Ten thousand for me. Finally someone here gets it right...Payoffs happen all the time. Something people should take into account when voting for a president.

Lula is a great man and is a great former Brazilian president. I strongly disagree, with your (and others) characterization and portrayal of President Lula as a criminal, who was corrupt and took bribes.

President Lula was politically railroaded, persecuted, prosecuted, imprisoned and jailed, yes. But he is NOT a criminal, he is a political prisoner.

His jailing was nothing more than a right-wing power grab on Brazilian democracy, knowing that given a just and fair election, they could not win against the PT Party, at the ballot-box, if Lula ran for president.

Six (6) months before the election, Lula leads by 31% in the polls, followed by Bolsonaro with 15%. At the time of his imprisonment in April 2018, Lula was far ahead (of Bolsonaro) and leading the 2018 presidential polls.

It wasn't hard to coerce Odebrecht executives to lie and include Lula in Moro's dragnet, with the promise of lighter jail sentences. That goes double for disgraced judge Sergio Moro, who was awarded Minister of Justice and is now under investigation for non-partiality and judicial misconduct, surrounding for his role in "Lava Jato".

The authorities, have NEVER found the hard evidence linking Lula, to the said allegations and proof of wrongdoing. The circumstantial evidence put forth, was flimsy, weak and incoherent, requiring you to have some kind of "leap-of-faith" to connection the dots, back to Lula.

Consider the role of Brazilian "Special Investigator" Prosecutors:
• Judge Sergio Moro was one of these "special investigator" prosecutors. He presided over operation "Lava Jato"
• An investigating judge, like judge Moro, gets to target the suspects he wants, orders their telephones to be taped, their offices to be raided, their houses to be searched..etc.
• He then gets to charge his suspects, with whatever crimes he see fit and then gets to be the trial and sentencing judge. (How fucked up is that?)
• Basically, Moro, is "judge", "jury" and "executioner". (How is that impartial?)
• Any reasonable judicial system, gives the most important right of any defendant, the right to be heard by an impartial judge, other than their accusers. (Not so much in Brazil.)

I submit when one man/office has this much power to adjudicate on all levels of justice, it's hard to imagine, that impartiality can still be maintained and therefore easily susceptible to influence, coercion, bribery or even a gross abuse of power.

Lula now released from from prison with regards to his appeal. Hopefully, he gets a real "impartial" judge, that adjudicates over evidence rather than conjecture and right-wing influencers

[Bravo]

I am thinking of staying in Rio for the next 2-3 months. Makes no sense freezing here during the winter when I can work remotely from Brazil. I have two questions for the board.

1) VPN. I am not 100% sure about any compliance issues with me doing my job out of the country. What would be the best VPN that would work in America and Brazil so my company would not know that I am out of the states?

2) Internet Service _ I would absolutely need the best, most reliable, fastest internet service so I can do my job with no hiccups. What service do they have in Rio which is on par with what we have in the states? Prices? I might even get a back up service, just in case my primary fails.

3) Apartment. While I am at it. Anyone have a website or realtor that has apartments available, furnished and internet installed for a few months? I am not looking to spend gringo prices when I know the rate should be relatively cheap and the real is over 5.

[Exec Talent]

Oh, you mean Lula the Silva the criminal. He sure made a great job "uplifting" his own personal economy.

Too bad he fucked over the Brazilian people to enrich himself.

Finally someone here gets it right. I used to have a driver in Rio who also had the transportation contract for a major convention hotel (academics love spending those student loan funded dollars in Rio). One day he shows me a huge wad of Reais and says he is having lunch with the manager in charge of awarding the transportation contract. Payoffs happen all the time. Something people should take into account when voting for a president.

[ShooBree]

Hey, no worries! It is the perfect opportunity to put those so called "Presidential Skills" to work and uplift the country. President Luiz Incio Lula da Silva did it!

Oh, you mean Lula the Silva the criminal. He sure made a great job "uplifting" his own personal economy.

Too bad he fucked over the Brazilian people to enrich himself.

[MikeGsxr]

Hello,

I got fly to Rio in 7 days and I must make PCR test for covid. Need I have documents in original form with signature or just PDF on tablet or self printed results from lab web site?

[Spidy]

Brazil Broke?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world...ke/ar-BB1cvsfw

Hey, no worries! It is the perfect opportunity to put those so called "Presidential Skills" to work and uplift the country. President Luiz Incio Lula da Silva did it!

[Spidy]

Be aware if you're a UK resident, now vacationing (or looking to vacation) in Brazil, the possibility of finding flights back to the UK, may become difficult in the next few days.

"The government is preparing to ban flights from Brazil in a bid to limit the cases of a new Covid variant reaching the UK, with an announcement expected on Thursday. Boris Johnson dropped a heavy... "

http://www.theguardian.com/world/202...riant-pm-hints

"Brazil virus flights fiasco: Ministers to ban flights to UK from Brazil AND surrounding countries due to new Covid super-strain - but restrictions won't come into force until later TODAY, days after it was discovered. "

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...d-variant.html

[UniversalX]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world...ke/ar-BB1cvsfw

[The Cane]

Some choose extreme isolation: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world...outputType=amp.

[WyattEarp]

Just shows how little you really know about former and once again current Mayor Eduardo Paes who is back for a third term. He was mayor during the cleanup ahead of the World Cup and Olympics.

I'm fairly sure English is your first language. What is unclear about my choice of words "perhaps" and "hoping"? I did not make an assertion about the city or the current Mayor.

Do me a favor, please stop dogging me here and sending me insulting PMs. It's bad form. Perhaps you know more than I do about Brazil, but I have been very helpful and accommodating to several members hear on ISG over the last few years. I've probably been to Brazil a dozen times with some stops to secondary places outside Rio and SP, but a member shouldn't have to prove themselves to another member.

I hope the moderator will leave this post stand. There is nothing here that is not true and this post is not aggressive.

[Exec Talent]

Perhaps with the evangelical Mayor leaving office Rio will gain some new boates. Just hoping.

Just shows how little you really know about former and once again current Mayor Eduardo Paes who is back for a third term. He was mayor during the cleanup ahead of the World Cup and Olympics.

[Golfinho]

Could someone please clarify entry requirements before Dec 30? Nothing extraordinary required at all, just show passport and enter (I am from Germany so no visa) I read sth about travel health insurance. Planning to go to Brazil on very short notice.

Moved my flight up two days to avoid the inconvenience of the testing, not to mention the uncertainty of a potential unfavorable result.

No notice of proof of covid test received from United and check-in completed for flight arriving Brazil on the 29th.

[WyattEarp]

Well, here we go again!

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...-investigation

Perhaps with the evangelical Mayor leaving office Rio will gain some new boates. Just hoping.

[UnitedInt]

Could someone please clarify entry requirements before Dec 30? Nothing extraordinary required at all, just show passport and enter (I am from Germany so no visa) I read sth about travel health insurance. Planning to go to Brazil on very short notice.

In case anyone didn't get the memo. With our flight scheduled on the 31st, message arrived from United Airlines, Brazil office in SP:

Travelers (Brazilian or foreigners) who enter Brazil will be required to obtain a negative COVID-19 test and to fill a health declaration (DSV). Measure starts to take effect on December 30th (including passengers boarding US on December 29th) until further notice. The test must be PCR type and must have been done up to 72 hours before boarding.

Highlights:

Foreigners are allowed to entry Brazil provided that the regular migratory conditions are followed, and;.

Brazilians or foreigners, must present to the airline responsible for the flight, before boarding:

A. Document proving laboratory tests (RT-PCR), for screening for SARS-CoV-2 infection, with negative / non-reactive result, performed with 72 hours prior to boarding; and.

Be. Traveler's Health Declaration (DSV) completed (printed or by digital) with the agreement on the sanitary measures that must be complied with during the stay in the country.