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Why Brazil's Democracy Is in Danger PDF Print E-mail
Written by Cristovam Buarque   
Sunday, 27 March 2005

Protest march in BrazilBolivian President Carlos Mesa's offer to resign his office and the crisis this generated in Bolivia should serve as a warning to all Latin American countries. What happened in that country is an example of what can happen in any other, despite the stability that the rest seem to have attained.

The Bolivian crisis does not only reflect the undoing of the political structure. It also results from something that is occurring in Brazil.

In the last decades, military dictatorships in Latin America have given way to democratic civilian governments, but the social reality still has not been democratized.

Anyone who believes that democracy is consolidating in Latin America fails to perceive that it takes more than laws, speeches, and political accords to sustain it. Democracy is only maintained if it is founded upon two pillars - political freedom and social justice.

Stable democracy does not exist where there is social exclusion and no political freedom, except in the most ancient democracies where the excludeds were slaves with no civil rights. They did not vote; they did not form part of the democratic space.

Democracy is a system of participation, and, because of this, the distribution system must also be democratic. When distribution is concentrated, dictatorship or slavery is necessary.

In these decades of democracy, the Bolivian social elite attempted to stay the course in the country without incorporating its excluded population.

Sooner or later that process will be interrupted, whether by the clamor of the people putting pressure upon the presidential mandates, or by the risk of military takeover that would make popular participation impossible.

The behavior of the Bolivian managerial elite is no different from what is occurring in the continent's other countries. In none of them has democracy brought an improvement in the people's quality of life, or a reduction of privileges accompanied by an increase of rights.

The result is an instability that is camouflaged. Sometimes it is even explicit, as seen in Bolivia during this month of March.

Brazil is an example of this camouflaged instability. How long can the country with the world's greatest concentration of wealth maintain a democratic regime?

How long will our democracy last if we do not educate the entire population, create the necessary jobs, guarantee housing with running water, electricity and sanitation? How long can we allow elderly people to die in lines while waiting for their retirement?

Our economic growth and our election of a working-class president make our democracy in Brazil appears more stable than Bolivia's. But if the President does not show determination and the ability to change the social reality and construct a new social pact that incorporates the masses, the illusion of stability will collapse.

What happened in Bolivia should concern us because it is here within us. We are very similar; both countries have a regime of political freedom without social justice.

Lula's election demonstrated the maturity of the Brazilian democracy; it represented a leap to evolve from a free-political-organization regime to a social-justice-organization system. In 30 years, Bolivia has not succeeded in uniting freedom with justice; this turned the democracy inviable.

Brazil has been a democracy for fewer years than Bolivia. This month we commemorate twenty years of Brazilian redemocratization, a period in which we took substantial steps to set a high-water mark of full freedom.

Nevertheless, the social advance we made during this same time was very small. Nor did we take much greater steps than Bolivia's in achieving the union of social justice with political freedom.

We have stayed merely on the latter pillar of democracy. And everyone knows that a building is not sustained upon a single pillar. This is something engineering has taught politics.

Cristovam Buarque has a Ph.D. in economics. He is a PT senator for the Federal District and was Governor of the Federal District (1995-98) and Minister of Education (2003-04). You can visit his homepage - www.cristovam.com.br - and write to him at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Translated from the Portuguese by Linda Jerome - This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .

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INVITATION
to

THE SUSTAINMENT OF INTERNATIONAL INFORMATION
CAMPAIGN

MASSES LEAD THE POWER



During the last years, MCP Press Media
Agency (MASS COMMUNICATION POWER) has organized
and participated to important events that had
the purpose to generally develop the civil
society and the strengthening of the public
opinion, especially.
It is certain the fact that in Romania the
citizens are faced with some social problems and
due to the enough communication missing, but
part of these cannot be settled by
politicians.The right decision should come from
the masses(people).
One of these is the capacity of giving a
prompt answer to the present requirements of
adhering to the international structures.
Therefore we think that it is a must to pay a
higher attention to the masses and the role of
the public opinion.
It is known from the peoples history that
masses power is decisive in the achievement of
the social progress regardless the operation of
the other powers in the humankind society.
Therefore, MCP Press Agency (established by
the Foundation HOPE FOR ROMANIA which has
members in the entire world) addresses you as a
representative of the civil society too, the
appeal of supporting the campaign: MASSES
LEAD THE POWER , which probably is unique
regarding the sense and the approached
problematic, up to this date.
In these conditions your opinion as well as
that of the other important persons in the
society would facilitate the conditions for the
apparition of a modern flow of public opinion.
Our aim is to refresh the political system in
every country by actions of communication-
participation generated by the establishment of
an International Forum of the Civil Society.
This way, the actual standards of
international economical and social development,
of a great exigency, must be fulfilled by as
many as possible persons and supported by the
mass-media powers that also have an important
role in the presentation of the objective
reality.
Having in the view that there are
politicians paying priority to their own
interests and ignoring the satisfaction of the
social needs and interests, we ve launched this
campaign-program which will be a natural signal
to the leaders elite as well.
The message is that of drawing the attention
to the actual power in any country of the world
that the democracy power is invincible,
regardless the operation of other power types.

We are waiting for your answer which will be an
honour for us and we thank you !

***
In the idea of a detailed knowledge over
the campaign development - MASSES LEAD THE
POWER program of which content we ve already
submitted you, having in the view the numerous
participation of the prestigious representatives
of organizations and institutions, we d like to
inform you about the following matters:
" According to the statutory provisions,
the press compartment of the Foundation HOPE
FOR ROMANIA , the International Media
Agency MASS COMMUNICATION POWER (MCP Press)
sustains and supplies the information need that
became a priority of the contemporary people,
more and more,
" We are interested in the manner by which
the public opinion is informed, reason for which
we wish the depoliticization of public
institutions and enhancement of masses role
played in the frame of the society that thing
following to be concreted through the
mediatization of compaign results,
" The objectives of MCP Press Agency
related to this campaign are:

- information of governs, civil society
and mass-media representatives in 10 countries
of the world, including Romania, about the way
of supporting this campaign,

- establishment of partnerships between
the decisive representatives of these countries
and the similar ones in Romania, in the view of
the promotion with priority of the education
among the masses and making efficient the
involvement of the civil society in the public
life,

- enhancement of public opinion role
played allover the world by establishing an
International Forum of the Civil Society to the
extent to which to facilitate the access to
information and the free expression of citizens,
assure the necessary contacts for the execution
of a performing management by communication and
participation,

- movement of citizens efforts to have an
active participation to the public life in the
idea of the enhancement of public institutions
role in fighting against the corruption,
terrorism, drugs consumption and promoting the
humans rights,

- organization of international
manifestations allover the year 2005, as long as
this campaign would last, having as purpose the
revealing of the important role played by the
masses in the achievement of the strategic and
democratic objectives of the government programs
regardless the influence of some power centers
(parties, leaders, etc.) that make use of
different incorrect handling means (in order to
misconduct the public opinion) which are not in
the favor of the general interests of the
community,

- propagation to an international extent
of MCP Press Agency view according to which the
human society cannot make a progress without
educated, disciplined individuals that are aware
of their role concerning the building of a
better future for our successors.

Our aim is to find out the opinion of as many as
possible
decisive factors in different countries
in order to answer the question:

Why this thing can be understood and applied in
Japan, only?

Mihail Georgevici General manager MCP Press



CONCRETE REQUESTS FROM MCP Press AGENCY

IN THE VIEW OF INTERNATIONAL INFORMATION
CAMPAIGN:

MASSES LEAD THE POWER


1. Establishment of a Press Center of
USIA (United States Information Agency) level in
USA, able to correctly inform the public opinion
regarding the citizens integration in the Euro-
Atlantic structures.
2. Financing of the publication: Ziarul
Afacerilor (Business Newspaper) in the pages
of which to be outlined the performances of
organizations and institutions, the
partnerships with similar representatives of the
governments of developed states, in the civil
society and mass-media in order to enhance the
communication with the worldwide masses.
3. Launching of the publication: Ziarul
Afacerilor which will reflect aspects of the
economic, juridical, social fields including the
prestigious ministries, organizations and
institutions.
4. Promoting of communication activities
participation to the establishment
of International Forum of Civil
Society ,designated to the promotion of an
active policy of public information and able to
make a stronger role of the public opinion.
5. Collaboration of MCP Press Agency Ziarul
Afacerilor with governmental institutions, in
order to suport, on a larger extend, the
citizens education a priority and permanent
request of the civilized world.

The prestigious organizations and
institutions that received the invitation to
sustain the international information campaign:
MASSES LEAD THE POWER

are from the following countries:

1) AUSTRIA 2) BELGIUM 3)
CANADA 4) SWITZERLAND

5) FRANCE 6) GERMANY 7) ITALY
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9) U.S.A. 10) SWEDEN.

For further information on MCP Press
(SPONSORSHIP AGREEMENT) or our company do
not hesitate to refer to our Internet site
WWW.mcppress.ro

Thank you for your attention!

The Managing Committee of MCP Press Agency

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