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 ...