Brazil's Lula sings globalist tune. (Insider Report).

While spouting a virulent anti-U.S., anti-capitalist line, Brazil's new Marxist president is pushing a policy that is music to the ears of one-world power brokers and international bankers. President Lula da Silva is pushing for deeper and wider political and economic integration through Mercusor, a regional trade bloc that includes Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay as full members, and Chile and Bolivia as associate members. Elected last October, Lula is saying that the Mercusor countries must expand and accelerate their regionalization program to avoid being swallowed up by an even bigger regionalization, the Free Trade Area of the Americas that is being pushed by the Bush administration. The December 7, 2002 online edition of the People's Weekly World (PWW), official newspaper of the Communist Party USA, carried an interesting article on this phenomenon. PWW interviewed Luis Fernandes, a leader of the Communist Party of Brazil, who was on a PWW-sponsored speaking tour of U.S. cities in December. Fer nandes, who received his education in political science in the U.S. at Georgetown University, was active in the Lula campaign.

"This election is symbolic of a new political beginning in Brazil," said Fernandes. "We have had left-leaning governments before but they were overseen by the elite. Lula is the first worker ever elected to lead Brazil." Comrade Fernandes noted: "When we win the World Soccer Cup, everyone dresses in green and yellow, the colors of our team. When Lula won, everyone came out into the streets dressed in red." Fernandes is using the term "everyone" loosely here; no doubt, it was mainly Reds like himself and fellow travelers celebrating in red. President Lula "is signaling that his priority will be economic, political, and cultural integration among the nations of South America," Fernandes said. 'There is now a growing tendency in Latin America of voters electing governments that are critical of the United States. This is the alternative to neoliberalism and the FTAA. There are very positive signs of change in South America."

"During the election campaign," PWW reported, "Lula charged that FTAA would clear the way for 'annexation' of Latin America by the United States while Mercusor is a buttress against U.S. control." Contrary to the spin offered by Lula, Fernandes, and the Communists at PWW, Mercusor has been "overseen by the elite" since its inception. No doubt, the one-world elitists at David Rockefeller's Council of the Americas, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Institute for International Economics, and related globalist institutions are beaming happily to have Lula's Reds pushing their one-world convergence strategy--even while verbally lashing the capitalist Insiders with Marxist rhetoric.