1. LULA DA SILVA DILMA ROUSSEFF

2. Brazilian politics (2) Lula: difficult balancing between promoting business and making progress on social issues. Programa de Aceleração do Crescimento, or PAC (“Growth acceleration programme”) of public investment  PAC manager: Dilma Rousseff Tight fiscal policies. Export promotion is a main component in plans to generate growth and reduce vulnerability to international financial market fluctuations  Access to foreign markets through trade negotiations and increased export promotion as well as government financing for exports. Control of corruption improving but is still an ongoing concern  increased transparency and willingness to prosecute  various corruption scandals by his PT and allies.

3. Brazilian politics (1) Relations are generally difficult between the executive and the legislature + federal and state governments. Brazil is a federal republic with 26 states and a federal district Tradition of switching parties Workers' Party (PT-center-left) Brazilian Social Democratic Party (PSDB-center-left) Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB-center) Democrats (DEM-center-right) Green Party (PV-left) Socialism and Freedom Party (Psol-left) Brazilian Labor Party (PTB-center-right) Brazilian Socialist Party (PSB-left) Democratic Labor Party (PDT-left) Communist Party of Brazil (PCdoB-left)

4. Dilma Rousseff Vanguarda Armada Revolucionária Palmares (VAR Palmares) http://www.webcastr.com/videos/news/shes- no-lula-brazils-next-best-thing.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-12103317

7. Violence in Brazil is criminal rather than political? Favelas: Rocinha

8. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Bb7JPE02VU Before the Party - a documentary from Rio de Janeiro http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxHI4jushGQ http://www.xe.com/currencyconverter/ MEDIA: Dying for Land in Brazil: Sam Eifling at TEDxTerryTalks 2012 http://www.survivalinternational.org/about/funai

9. Brazil Economy & Oil Digital Story Opinions, Obama, Dilma. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAkooCUxqGg Left: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgLrO3YWyck Brazil - An Inconvenient History http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKjHktSEDxY http://brazilianbubble.com/

10. http://www.forbes.com/sites/andersonantunes/2013/04/05/can-marina-silva- revamp-brazilian-politics/ Brazil's outrage over 'racist' evangelical politician http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-22005901