Chronology

June 2002

  • the surveys give Lula gaining for the next elections.
  • the réal starts to devaluate.

October 2002

  • the 10 the réal is with the lowest
  • the 27, Lula is elected President of the Brazilian Republic|chair the presidential elections of 2002, it is the first president of left of the Brésil, with taking of for the 1 {{er}} January.

January 2003

  • At the time its taking of, on January 1st 2003, Lula declares in its inaugural speech: “ change, here is our watchword (…) The spirit overcame the fear, our company decided that it was time to borrow a new way ”.
  • Following full political alliance Pt, PL, PcdoB, PCB and PMN, Green, it chooses like:

    • Vice-president, the senator Jose Alencar Gums da Silva (PL), contractor of the area of the Minas Gerais.

    • Minister for the Development and industry, Fernando Fulan, the former chairman of the great food group Sadia.
    • President of the Central bank, the banker Henrique Meirelles.
    • Minister for the Culture, celebrates it composietur and singer Gilberto Gil (Green).
  • Beginning of the ambitious countryside “ Hunger zero ”, with like emblem a dish, a knife and a fork with the Brazilian flag in background, and like the first measurements:
    • the granting of a monthly allowance of 50 réals (15 euros) the most stripped to, which is regarded as insufficient eating with its hunger.
    • a plan of schooling and vaccination of the children.
    • an obligatory plan of medical monitoring for the expectant mothers.
    • a plan-test of installation of drinking water.
    • regoupement of the various plans from social security to the family within a new organization the Bolsa Familia .
    • a hundred more large companies of Brazil collaborate in the fight plan against the hunger for an amount of 104 $US million.
    • Creation of the post of federal coordinator for the emergency social security, directly attached to Lula and whose action should relate to 11 million families. It is about Anna Fonseca, historian, sociologist and specialist in public policy; its assistant is Ricardo Henriques, economist.

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  • the reforms of the retirements and the social security cause movements in the extreme left of the Partido back Trabalhadores , but do not lead to a rupture, only on demonstrations denouncing “ the treason of Lula ”.
    • independent measurement was to push back the retirement age from 55 to 60 years and what allowed approval by the the IMF of a new loan of 15 billion $US.

April 2003

  • Revaluation of the réal, the currency of Brazil.

September 2003

  • the authorization given to the culture of Soya genetically modified (this authorization would be temporary for 2004 and prone to study) and the construction project of a third nuclear plant pushed the deputy and former guerilla Fernando Gabeira to announce its rupture with the Partido back Trabalhadores .
  • the negotiations of OMC to Cancun, showed a failure, mainly because of the opposition of Lula which wished reports/ratios of equal footing with the the United States. This position enabled him to acquire a great popularity in all the countries of Latin America where the feeling which American behaves as a lord with his vassal is very widespread.
  • the United States imposes on any passenger passing by their ground, even in simple transit, and which is not provided with a passport with optical character reading to make record its digital fingerprints and its photograph by the immigration department. The Brazilian citizens thus are directly impacted. In the name of the reciprocity, Brazil imposed the same treatment to the American citizens entering to Brazil.

November 2003

  • Lula promises to give grounds to 400  000 poor families before 2006 (MST), and promises the respect of engagements of Brazil towards the the IMF.

December 2003

  • Law against the firearms.

January 2004

  • Assessment first year:
    • the réal found a third of the value lost at the time of the Dévaluation of 58%.
    • the Indice of the risk country was divided by two.
    • the markets start to be reassured.
    • the gold rules of the Libéralisme are complied with.
    • inflation is under control, but thanks to high interest rates.
    • the expiries of the debt of the country are honoured, but at the price of dark cuts in the social budget.
    • the foreign debt of the country rises to 270 billion $US, it is highest of the world, accounts for 55,8% of GDP and costs each Fifty billion the Brésil.
    • the the IMF placed at the disposal of Brazil 30 billion $US, of which 24 are releasable over 2003, provided that the austerity policy is rigorously respected.
    • the tax reform under study does not envisage any additional tax for the rich person.
    • the delinquency still involved more than 40.000 assassinations in 2003.
    • unemployment is assembled ofiiciellement to 11,7% but the real figure would border 20%.
  • the 24, first cabinet reshuffle, opening to the center-right (PMDB).
  • Multiplication of the discussions or agreements of free trade between the Brazil/Mercosur and the India, the EU, Canada.
  • Advertisement of minimum wages for all as from 2005.
  • the top of Americas of the January 12th and 13rd, showed a failure, mainly because of the opposition of Lula which rejetté the states-uniens projects as well on the bottom as on the form.

February 2004

  • an adviser of the chief of the civil House is dismissed government, shown trading of favors to have negotiated in 2002 a commission on the clandestine lotteries to finance the countryside of the Partido back Trabalhadores (business revealed by the press).

March 2004

  • On a proposal from the French president Jacques Chirac, Lula agrees to send a force of peace in Haiti of 1100 men and to take the command of the multinational force of UNO.
  • the government resolves 3 billion réaux (900 million euros) to restore the roads.

July 2004

  • the Brazilian government launches a disarmament campaign of the civil population with a budget of 10 million réaux, for the acquisition of approximately 80.000 weapons.
  • the 14, Lula announces that the Brésilienne economy with created 830.000 jobs over the first 5 months of the year. It indicates that this figure is in lower part of its hope and hopes for a “pleasant surprise” with the end of the year.

September 2004

  • Acceleration of the social programs: The BID (inter-American Bank of development) announces a loan of 1 billion US dollars over 2005-2007, to finance the program of social security, the purse-family, created within the framework of the plan “Hunger zero”, of eradication of the hunger, and to unify other social securities like the purse-school or the ration card.
This help relates to 4,5 million families which touches 72 réaux per month (25 US$), and comprises counterparts like the obligation to send the children to the school and to make them vaccinate. Its management has just been allotted directly to Jose Dirceu, principal private secretary of president “Lula” in the place of the minister of social development Patrus Ananias.

November 2004

  • the 4, the president Lula accepts the resignation of the Minister for Defense Jose Viegas , after the publication of an official statement of the army, by the general Roberto de Albuquerque , defending the military regime, without the minister being consulted before the publication of the official statement. It is replaced by the current vice-president, Jose Alencar.

December 2004

  • the president decides to open the files of the military dictatorship (1964-1985).
  • Advertisement of the minimum wage increase of more than 15% to 300 R$ instead of 260 R $, for May 2005.
  • Popularity of Lula and its government in rise, respectively 65,4% and 44,5%. The survey indicates that he would be re-elected in 2006.
  • the 18, the number 1872 of the Veja review denounces an agreement according to which the Partido back Trabalhadores was committed pouring 10 million réaux to the Brazilian Workers party to obtain its support.

May 2005

  • the 14, número 1905 of the Veja review reveals that a video round hidden camera implies Roberto Jefferson, the president of the Brazilian Workers party, in a corruption scandal. The fact that agents of the Brazilian special services are implied in this business leaves suspecter an action gouvernemantale to trap an ally become cumbersome. The Brazilian Exécutif tries to prevent the Législatif from assembling a Parliamentary Board of inquiry.

June 2005

  • the 3, the newspaper Folha de São Paulo advances that the government is ready to release 400 million réaux of various budgets provided that the Parliament does not assemble Parliamentary Board of inquiry.
  • the 16, Jose Dirceu, Civil Ministro da Casa and friend of Lula resigns following the charges of Roberto Jefferson, the president of the Brazilian Workers party. He then reprent his mandate of Federal Deputy of the Partido back Trabalhadores for the State de São Paulo.

October 2005

  • the 23, Echec of the Referendum to limit the sales of weapons. The Front for the right to the self-defense used the same arguments as the National Riffle Organization with the the United States of America: civil right to defend themselves vis-a-vis inefficiency of the State, inefficiency of the State " démontrée" by the corruption scandal.

December 2005

  • the 1, Jose Dirceu is relieved of its mandate of Federal Deputy and thus loses his parliamentary privilege

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