Klaus Hart Brasilientexte

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v33/n07/perry-anderson/lulas-brazil

Cesar Zucco: http://www.estadao.com.br/noticias/impresso,pobres-nao-sao-petistas-sao-governistas,707680,0.htm

„For, far from doing any harm to the propertied (or credentialed), this was a government that greatly benefited them. Never has capital so prospered as under Lula. It is enough to point to the stock market. Between 2002 and 2010, Bovespa outperformed every other bourse in the world, rocketing by 523 per cent; it now represents the third largest securities-futures-commodities complex on earth. Huge speculative gains accrued to a modern bourgeoisie accustomed to gambling on share prices. For more numerous and risk-averse sectors of the middle class, sky-high interest rates yielded more than satisfactory returns on simple bank deposits. Social transfers have doubled since the 1980s, but payments on the public debt trebled. Outlays on the Bolsa Família totalled a mere 0.5 per cent of GDP. Rentier incomes from the public debt took a massive 6-7 per cent. Fiscal receipts in Brazil are higher than in most other developing countries, at 34 per cent of GDP, largely because of social commitments inscribed in the constitution of 1988 at the high point of the country’s democratisation, when the PT was still a rising radical force. But taxes have remained staggeringly regressive. Those living on less than twice the minimum wage lose half their income to the Treasury, those on 30 times the minimum wage a quarter of theirs. In the countryside, the clearing of vast interior areas of scrub for modern agribusiness, proceeding apace under Lula, has left landownership more concentrated today than it was half a century ago. Urban real estate has moved in the same direction.“

Laut Medienberichten hat Lula nach seiner Amtszeit offenbar durch Vortragshonorare im In-und Ausland bereits soviel verdient, daß er allein dadurch zum Millionär wurde.  Zur Vortrags-Vermarktung habe Lula die „LILS Palestras, Eventos e Publicacoes Ltda“ gegründet, Co-Mitinhaber sei Paulo Okomotto mit lediglich 2 Prozent der Anteile. Den Berichten zufolge haben sich in  Lulas Amtszeit auch für seine ganze Familie große materielle Vorteile ergeben – drei Söhne, heißt es in den Medien, hätten in Sao Paulo Unternehmen eröffnet, in den Branchen Marketing und Technologie.

http://www.hart-brasilientexte.de/2011/01/28/lulas-einkommen-allein-als-ehrenprasident-der-arbeiterpartei-aufschlusreich-ist-der-vergleich-mit-dem-brasilianischen-mindestlohn-den-satzen-von-bolsa-familia-den-arbeiter-durchschnittslohnen/