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		<title>Brazil’s No-Blame Game: How Impunity Imperils the Country’s Image</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 09:45:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Downie / São Paulo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Brazil prepares to play host to the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics, it has much to show off. The country has reduced poverty and inequality at unprecedented levels; and it has been lauded the world over by a media in thrall to its dynamism, its natural beauty and its undisputed charms. But two shocking episodes of violence, yet another case of mismanagement by its sporting bodies, and several episodes of deadly traffic madness&#8211;all made worse by a sense of continuing impunity enjoyed by the alleged perpetrators of crime and mismanagement&#8211;have come as a reminder that all is not rosy in South America&#8216;s biggest nation. In São Paulo, eight police officers are being held in a city jail in connection with the investigation into the cold-blooded killing of two youths. In Rio de Janeiro, a 21-year old American woman was brutally raped and her partner was beaten by three men who kidnapped them in a minivan used for public transport.  Meanwhile, the city&#8217;s mayor was forced to close the new stadium that will host the track and field events for the 2016 Olympics because the roof is in danger of collapse. And last week, a bus that was allowed to continue running in spite of having 47fines for traffic violations careened off a viaduct killing seven people onboard. The events are more than just graphic illustrations of how life is cheap in Brazil. The other common thread is impunity and a lack of accountability. Death squads persist in São Paulo; Rio police ignore rape reports; bus drivers keep driving in spite of repeated fines; those responsible for organizing one vastly over budget sports event are allowed to organize another. &#8220;We are accustomed to punishing only the poorest and that has been the case though Brazil&#8217;s history,&#8221; says Felipe Santa Cruz, president of the Rio branch of the Brazilian Bar Association. &#8220;It is getting better. (But) we still don&#8217;t have a culture of obeying the law. Some parts of society have no fear they will ever be punished.&#8221; (MORE: Rio<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=81038&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Stadiums of Rio: Why They Are Not Yet Ready for the Olympics</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 09:45:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Downie / São Paulo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Rio de Janeiro bid to host the 2016 Olympics, it cited as a trump card the experience and infrastructure the city had gathered in hosting the 2007 Pan American Games. Opponents, however, pointed to Rio’s broken promises from the 2007 event, like the metro lines and highways the city vowed to build but never did. Nevertheless, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) overlooked those protests and decided the self-described “Marvelous City” would become the first South American venue to hold the world&#8217;s biggest sporting event. Now, almost four years after that momentous decision, it looks increasingly like Rio&#8217;s Pan Am experience was wanting. The Pan Am Games’ João Havelange Stadium — now intended for the track-and-field competitions in the 2016 Olympics — has just been closed because it&#8217;s in danger of collapse. The velodrome is about to be knocked down because it isn&#8217;t up to Olympic standards. And a handful of other venues are being modernized or upgraded because they simply aren&#8217;t good enough. &#8220;They said that one of the reasons the Pan American games were so overbudget was because the installations were built to an Olympic standard, and we can see now that is clearly not the case,&#8221; says Alberto Murray, a former member of the Brazilian Olympic Committee and a critic of Rio&#8217;s preparations. &#8220;What we are seeing is not new. It is something that has been getting worse over time.&#8221; (MORE: Rio 2016: Track-and-Field Venue Closed Indefinitely) The closure of the track-and-field stadium comes at a sensitive moment for Rio, the former capital whose decades-long decline was arrested only recently thanks to the election of a progressive mayor and a flood of pre-Olympic (and oil and gas) investment. Over the weekend, a 21-year-old American woman was gang-raped on a bus — a grim reminder that violence is never far from the surface in Brazil. Now, a scandal over shoddy workmanship on the stadium raises fresh questions over the city&#8217;s suitability as Olympic host. The João Havelange arena is currently the city&#8217;s main soccer stadium. Some of the huge metal beams<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=79299&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Brazil: Dead Fish Swamp Future Olympic Rowing Venue</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/03/17/brazil-dead-fish-swamp-future-olympic-rowing-venue/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 03:57:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kristene Quan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The lake in Rio de Janeiro where rowers will compete at the 2016 Olympics Games has been filled with an estimated 65 tons of dead fish, according to the Herald Sun. The water in the Rodrigo de Freitas Lagoon became deoxygenated after storms last week washed “a large amount of organic matter” into the lake, leading to the death of thousands of fish called shad, the Guardian reported. (MORE: Rio 2016: Is Brazil Going to Be Ready for the Olympics?) Rio’s municipal department of the environment launched a two-day emergency clean-up operation with 100 municipal workers to remove the dead fish from the lake, which is located in the heart of the city and a popular tourist attraction, the Daily Mail noted. According to the Herald Sun, environmental authorities said the situation is improving as no dead fish were pulled out of the lake at the end of last week.  However, this isn’t the first time the lagoon had to be cleaned up.  A similar incident in 2009 led to the removal of an estimated 100 tons of fish, the Guardian reported. (MORE: Thousands of Dead Pigs Pulled from Shanghai River, Prompting Contamination Fears)<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=75910&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Brazil&#8217;s Epic Carnival: Scenes from Rio&#8217;s Sambadrome</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/02/12/brazils-epic-carnival-scenes-from-rios-sambadrome/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2013 19:42:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mikko Takkunen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The revelers and costumes were out in full force during Rio de Janeiro&#8217;s annual carnaval.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=68716&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How the Santa Maria Fire Could Mark a Turning Point for Brazil</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/01/28/how-the-santa-maria-fire-could-mark-a-turning-point-for-brazil/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2013 17:28:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Padgett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Sunday night, Brazilian websites began posting the names, photos and bios of the more than 230 victims of that morning’s horrific nightclub fire in the southern city of Santa Maria. What stands out is that half of them were college students from the Universidade Federal de Santa Maria’s agronomy department. Among them: André Cadore Bosser, a forestry-engineering student; Benhur Retzlaff Rodrigues, a civil-engineering student; Susiele Cassol, just 19, a food-engineering student. Beautiful, bright kids. And, as it turns out, kids Brazil particularly needed. (PHOTOS: Chaos Outside Brazil Nightclub Fire That Killed More than 200) Any death in a senseless catastrophe like this is heartbreaking, and a college student’s life is certainly no more valuable than anyone else’s. But the mass demise of science scholars carries a potent symbolism for Brazil — especially for President Dilma Rousseff, who through her Science Without Borders program has made it a crusade to produce tens of thousands more STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) graduates as the South American giant reaches for a developed future that seems so close but in many ways remains so far. Rousseff said perhaps more than she knew when she arrived on the coffin-clogged streets of Santa Maria on Sunday and called the carnage in front of her “a tragedy for all of us” in Brazil. It is, in fact, a tragedy that may mark a turning point for the nation. And, despite its searing pain, a potentially useful turning point. For the past decade, Brazil has celebrated a remarkable boom that made it the world’s sixth largest economy. It added almost 40 million people to the middle class — creating almost 20 millionaires a week at one point. But that carnaval has stalled: Brazil saw just 1% economic growth last year, and it has to get a lot more serious about structural reforms, from less corruption and red tape to more infrastructure and high tech, if it’s going to take its next step to the First World — and if it wants to be a successful host of<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=66147&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tale of Two Corruptos: Brazil and Mexico on Different Transparency Paths</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/12/06/tale-of-two-corruptos-brazil-and-mexico-on-different-transparency-paths/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2012 17:21:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Padgett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is an increasingly heated debate today about Latin America’s two titans: Does Brazil receive too many kudos, and does Mexico receive too much criticism? For all the ugly press Mexico’s murderous drug war gets, Brazil’s homicide rate is actually higher. Global media fawn over Brazil’s economic boom, but the World Bank finds Mexico a much easier place to do business; it earns more in manufacturing exports and is enrolling a higher number of engineering students. But Transparency International offers another potential reminder of why Brazil has realized more development, and two times more average economic growth, than Mexico has so far in the so-called Century of the Americas. Bottom line: business and bureaucracy might be easier in Mexico, but in Brazil they’re actually cleaner. Transparency, the Berlin-based corruption watchdog, issued its annual Corruption Perceptions Index this week — and despite Brazil’s long reputation for sleaze, it places ninth among the 26 Latin American and Caribbean countries on the 176-nation Index (the higher ranking being the less corrupt) compared with Mexico’s 16th-place finish. Among all nations, Brazil is No. 69; Mexico is No. 105. (MORE: TIME&#8217;s Exclusive Interview with the New Mexican President) That’s significant because one of the Index’s biggest stories in recent years is that Latin America has begun to shed its centuries-old image as the most venal region on earth. More than half of the Latin American nations ended up in the top half of the Index again this year — and Chile and Uruguay, which tied at No. 20, are just one slot behind the U.S. (Canada, home of Dudley Do-Right, is No. 9, the best in the western hemisphere; Denmark, Finland and New Zealand tied for No. 1.) The fact that Brazil has brought itself more in line with that trend than Mexico has — when at the turn of the century Brazil was still known for its Trem da Alegria, or Joy Train, the sardonic name Brazilians gave their hyper-embezzling public bureaucracy — simply gives global media another excuse to fawn. Not that Brazil deserves<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=58305&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Brazil&#8217;s Largest Corruption Trial Yields Its Most Important Guilty Verdict</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/10/10/brazils-largest-corruption-trial-yields-its-most-important-guilty-verdict/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2012 22:45:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Downie / São Paulo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s a landmark decision that could help reform the perniciously entrenched culture of graft in Brazilian politics. On Tuesday, Brazil’s Supreme Court ruled that José Dirceu—former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s first chief of staff and the man responsible for drafting many of the policies that helped turn Brazil into one of the world’s most dynamic economies today—is guilty of overseeing a wide-ranging cash-for-votes scheme that paid millions of dollars to members of Congress to support Lula’s program. The former president of Lula’s Workers Party (PT), José Genoino, was also convicted. The Dirceu verdict is arguably the most important rendered in the so-called mensalão scandal, which has resulted in the largest corruption trial in Brazil’s history—and in one of the country’s biggest tests yet as it moves closer to joining the club of developed nations. Mensalão, which means “big monthly payment” in Portuguese, has gripped Brazil since the case’s first details were revealed in 2005, the same year that Dirceu, 66, resigned as the top aide to Lula, who is not charged himself in the scandal and insists he knew nothing of the scheme. More than 20 of the 38 people on trial, ranging from bankers to secretaries to politicians working for and with the PT, have so far been convicted for taking part in siphoning money from state-run companies to pay lawmakers. Dirceu, who with Genoino will be sentenced later this month and faces up to 12 years in prison, claimed Wednesday that he’d been “lynched” by a Supreme Court acting under “heavy pressure from the press.” But chief prosecutor Roberto Gurgel called the mensalão plot “without doubt the most daring and scandalous case of corruption and embezzlement ever seen in Brazil.” Although the guilty verdicts against Dirceu and other senior members of the PT were widely expected, they were nonetheless shocking. Brazilians are accustomed to graft, yet the idea that several of the nation’s best known political figures could go to jail for corruption was until recently unthinkable. (Former President Fernando Collor de Mello resigned in 1992<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=49273&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2012 10:25:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mafia Links &#8212; The Italian government fired the entire council of the city of Reggio Calabria in southern Italy for suspected ties to the mafia, notes the BBC. The mayor and all 30 city councillors were fired for allegedly having ties with the &#8216;Ndrangheta crime syndicate, which is one of the world&#8217;s largest criminal organizations. Rome dissolved the city administration to prevent the mafia from taking over the local government, said the BBC. Brazilian Corruption &#8212; A high-profile corruption scandal in Brazil is raising hopes for the country&#8217;s judicial system, as prominent politicians and bankers involved in the scandal face the prospect of receiving jail terms, reports the New York Times. The Supreme Court found more than 20 of the 38 defendants in the case guilty of crimes that include receiving cash for votes, embezzlement of public funds, and money laundering. According to the Times, Brazil&#8217;s elite often flout laws with impunity and the fact that the trial has reached this stage &#8220;points to a rare breakthrough in political accountability and a crucial streak of independence in the legal system.&#8221; Global Growth Forecast &#8212; The International Monetary Fund (IMF) lowered its forecast for global growth to 3.3% for this year, according to Reuters, and warned that the slump might be prolonged if European and U.S. policymakers are unable to fix their economic problems. Global financial conditions are predicted to remain &#8220;very fragile&#8221; in the immediate future &#8220;because repairing euro zone problems will take time and there are concerns about how the U.S. economy will cope with the expiry of tax cuts early next year,&#8221; wrote Reuters. The IMF also stated that global output will grow at 3.6% in 2013. Helping Hand – The United States military secretly sent a task force of over 150 planners and specialists to Jordan in order to help forces there deal with Syrian refuges, the New York Times reports. The task force is led by an American office and will prepare for “the possibility that Syria will lose control of its chemical weapons and be positioned so<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=49049&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2012 11:18:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spillover Effect &#8211; The New York Times reports on the &#8220;frightening&#8221; spillover of the conflict in Syria to neighboring Lebanon following the abduction Wednesday of more than 30 Syrians inside Lebanese territory in apparent revenge for the kidnapping of a relative inside Syria. It wrote: &#8220;Extended families with differing allegiances straddle both countries, and the use of hostages signaled the rise of abduction as a tactic by antagonists in the conflict.&#8221; Latin Quarter &#8211; A trio of the Guardian&#8216;s south American correspondents explore the continent&#8217;s economies that continue to boom amid the global gloom. The focus follows Brazil&#8217;s announcement of a $66 billion stimulus plan, which comes in addition to the money it will spend in preparation for the 2014 World Cup and the Olympics in 2016. &#8220;Growth, spending, enviably low public debt – it&#8217;s a far cry from the crisis-hit old world,&#8221; the newspaper said. Temperatures Rise &#8211; China&#8217;s state-run Global Times wades into the increasing furor over the detention by Japan of Chinese activists who landed Wednesday on contested South China Sea islands. &#8220;China should by no means accept Japan&#8217;s legal step,&#8221; it wrote. &#8220;No other compromise should be made by the Chinese side either.&#8221; The Japan Times said Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda told reporters: &#8220;We will handle this squarely in line with the law.&#8221; Rare Criticism &#8211; The Associated Press examines Aung San Suu Kyi&#8217;s silence towards the plight of the Rohingya, Burma&#8217;s Muslim minority, which has prompted &#8220;rare criticism of the woman whose struggle for democracy and human rights&#8221; has &#8220;earned her a Nobel Peace Prize, and adoration worldwide.&#8221; Analysts argue that her stance signals a new phase in Suu Kyi&#8217;s political career: &#8220;The former political prisoner is now a more calculating politician who is choosing her causes carefully.&#8221; Democracy Imperilled? &#8211; The BBC considers how &#8221;ethnic and sectarian divisions are limiting the Arab spring.&#8221; As has been most clearly demonstrated in Iraq and Lebanon, and more recently in the electorial success of Egypt&#8217;s Muslim Brotherhood and Tunisia&#8217;s Salafists, &#8220;the overwhelming desire thus far in democracies in Arab countries has been for representation,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=40466&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>La Roja&#8216;s Stunning Euro 2012 Success Enthralls a Depressed Spain</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2012 09:45:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Score it a decidedly good week for Spain. Because just two days after the country struck an emphatic blow in favor of European Union plurality that also helped calm the roiling euro crisis, the Spanish soccer team left the sports world in absolute awe by winning an unprecedented third-straight international football crown in just four years. Better still, by thrashing Italy 4-0 in the European Championship final Sunday, la Roja defiantly answered criticism that its play had been boring with indisputable proof that it also wins when it counts. &#8220;Are we boring?” asked triumphant midfielder Cesc Fabregas. “People who think we play boring, I don&#8217;t think they understand the game,&#8221; he said, presumably in reference to the criticism that coach Vicente del Bosque has come in for in persisting with a supposed strikerless 4-6-0 formation. People do understand winning, however, and Spain’s soccer team has become synonymous with the term. Its European Championship title Sunday joins the Euro trophy it won in 2008, and World Cup crown two years ago in South Africa. Though both West Germany and France won consecutive tournaments (the Germans won the 1972 Euros and the 1974 World Cup, while France triumphed in the 1998 World Cup and the 2000 Euros), Spain is the first nation to ever stage a triple run. Many pundits did not believe the feat to be possible in the notoriously inconsistent world of elite soccer, where yesterday’s powerhouse melts into today’s lame puddle on the pitch (just look at Germany’s limp semi-final performance, and Italy’s fatigued finale against Spain for evidence of that). Yet not only were such doubters disabused of their doubt Sunday night; they were joined in their stupefaction of the feat by the Spanish players themselves. “It&#8217;s unique, it&#8217;s magical&#8211;something that can&#8217;t be repeated,” said delighted Spanish midfielder Andres Iniesta, who was named the player of the tournament. “I don’t think we’ve even absorbed how great this is yet.” Given its timing, Spain’s record title comes somewhat ironically at the expense of Italy—its main partner in staging a<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=33484&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Must-Reads from Around the World, June 26, 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2012 12:05:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Worst Case &#8211; Der Spiegel imagines &#8220;the unthinkable&#8221; &#8212; the implosion of the eurozone. &#8220;Nothing seems impossible anymore, not even a scenario in which all members of the currency zone dust off their old coins and bills &#8212; bidding farewell to the euro, and instead welcoming back the guilder, deutsche mark and drachma,&#8221; it said.  The magazine predicts this would cause &#8220;the destruction of trillions in assets and record high unemployment levels, even in Germany.&#8221; Mountain to Climb &#8211; The New York Times reports from the Indian-controlled region of Kashmir, where something resembling peace is bringing tourists back to the Himalayan territory. &#8220;But with the guns silenced, India must soon decide whether justice will be as welcome as the tourists,&#8221; it noted, adding: &#8220;Mass murderers walk the streets openly, having killed thousands of people who are buried in unmarked graves in scores of secret cemeteries.&#8221; Paraguayan Politics &#8211; The Economist assesses the continuing fallout from the removal of Paraguay&#8217;s (now former) President Fernando Lugo by the country&#8217;s Senate. It predicted that the outcome of the standoff may well depend on Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff. &#8220;With the next Paraguayan election scheduled for April 2013, Ms Rousseff will need to act quickly if she decides to intervene on Mr Lugo’s behalf,&#8221; it wrote. Refusing Refugees &#8211;Reuters reports that Chinese authorities have expelled ethnic Kachin refugees fleeing fighting in neighboring Burma. Over 10,000 Kachin people have sought asylum in China since the end of a fragile 17-year truce between the Burmese government and several minority rebel groups last year. Human Rights Watch argues that China, having signed various international conventions on refugees, is obligated to protect the Kachin, but the Chinese Foreign Ministry denies this is the country&#8217;s responsibility. Historic Meeting &#8211; Queen Elizabeth II has begun a historic two-day tour of Northern Ireland, which will include a meeting with former IRA leader Paddy McGuinness, reports the BBC. In his first interview since the announcement was made, McGuinness describes the meeting as “taking a risk for peace.” The Queen is also expected to attend a church<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=32592&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>After the G-20: Can the BRICS Save the Day?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jun 2012 15:43:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Krista Mahr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week, India’s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh stood before the leaders of the G-20 in Los Cabos, Mexico, and pledged $10 billion of India’s reserves to the International Monetary Fund&#8217;s firewall designed to help the ailing euro zone. “India’s contribution reflects our recognition that as a responsible player in the global community, we must play our part,” Singh said in a statement to the media after the June 19 plenary session. Of the nearly $460 billion that nations have committed to the IMF&#8217;s firewall, India and the other BRICS countries chipped in $75 billion (China pledged $43 billion, Brazil and Russia each pledged $10 billion, and South Africa pledged $2 billion). It’s a significant contribution, and one that the five nations — Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa — want to be tied to IMF reforms that will give them more sway in the global lending body. “Many leaders emphasized the importance of accelerating governance reforms in the IMF &#8230; to reflect economic weight,” Singh went on to say in the media statement. Once the reforms, based on a recalculation of GDP and PPP and agreed upon in 2010, finally kick in, India will go from being the 11th to the 8th largest shareholder in the IMF. (MORE: If the Euro Zone Breaks Up, Poor Countries Could Suffer the Most) If it seems counterintuitive that countries with such high poverty rates are helping with the bailout of one of the richest parts of the world, it shouldn’t. China, India, Brazil and Russia are home to 40% of the population, and their governments are exercising increasing influence across a wide spectrum of policy areas. At this week’s Rio+20 summit, for instance, the BRIC nations are expected to have a stronger presence than the G-7, an older grouping of the most industrialized countries. That will fuel another round in the endless debate over who is responsible for cleaning up the earth’s mess, but a more interesting note is how the summit could mark a turning point in who shapes the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=32188&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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