the lula marxist, the lula leftist, the lula that acquires this language, is a later lula. the lula of sao bernardo do campo is the man that reinvented the unions in brazil that used to be controlled by the communist party. the communist party used to hate lula because he introduced the sort of us model of unions in brazil, saying that, you know, "i want results. i want cars. my members need to have a better life." >> hinojosa: so it was about increasing productivity, in a sense. >> increasing productivity, increasing benefits. real, concrete benefits for workers. >> hinojosa: and he was criticized from the left because he wasn't revolutionary enough. >> he was not revolutionary in the sense of an armed struggle. we had had some of that in brazil. he was criticized by the communists. but he was... some businessmen started to pay attention to him, because he wanted to negotiate. he wanted truly to sit down and take their concerns into consideration as long as they took into consideration the concerns of the workers. >> hinojosa: so there were many years there where again bra

. ♪ es el momento de que el presidente de la república, luiz inácio lula da silva, viaje a osorio y pongaficial el primer aerogenerador. [personas aplaudiendo] clap, clap, clap el asunto energético para brasil no es tema menor todo el mundo recuerda el apagón de 2001 y todos sabemos que cualquier empresario del planeta que quiera disponer de su dinero para invertirlo en algún lugar una de las condiciones básicas para la inversión es tener garantizada la energía. (jorge gestoso) tras la visita del presidente lula el trabajo en el parque siguió a buen ritmo y se redoblaron los esfuerzos para terminar la obra. superar los retos y desafíos son la verdadera prueba de la constancia humana. somos testigos de esa constancia y sus exitosos resultados. enseguida regresamos. ♪ ♪ son pocas las veces que la tecnología hace una fusión tan armónica con la naturaleza como en este caso, donde torres gigantescas hacen del viento pura energía. está bien. (jorge gestoso) el esmero y cuidado con el que se construye el parque no se limita a utilizar aerogeneradores de última generación el diseño de las edifica

that this is really really thin ice that this year i cannot give you a story i was in brazil when lula da silva was president and we went to an event where he was giving a speech an indoor event so there's these protesters you know when we protest we hide our banner then we pull them out their banners were right out there and they walked inside and they started yelling against lula and they didn't stop for the entire time there was a phalanx of police people in front of and i kept waiting for them to be pulled out and arrested never happened never happened at the end of the thing i went up to the place and said why didn't you arrest this people like happens to us in the us he said. we were there to protect their right to free speech well now lou was. arguably a more progressive president was he not of brazil or was he right when he was progressive he was a metalwork areas a worker who became a president he came from the union movement but it's to give you an example and i have i've seen this in other places free speech is protected more in some other countries than here in the united s

what that child has accomplished if you put it in perspective is even more extraordinary that what lula accomplished in was in fact one of those front runners the two men around the nicholas madeira to instead of putting a knight in front of the moment there's a lot of speculation on the top they don't actually get on that well they're after each other's necks yes it's true because that they're part of different strands inside chevy's more like the chevy's war is not a monolithic saying like would dare to say the communist party in china dad least four or five different factions fighting for power and this is one of the problems a for we have an unsteady situation in terms of chavez house because there will be an internal struggle for power inside this mall and met the same time we're going to have more possibilities of foreign interference trying so you know a louvered this process and i mean specially our friends in washington who all the news he will see an opening well maybe this is the beginning of the end of just of shabbiness work let's get it out if there was some sort of snap v

, as the senator from new mexico did, that i had my first amendment on the floor, and a lady named lula who was the floor manager on the democratic side came up to help me, this brand-new green freshman with his first amendment on the floor, and she said to me, so let me explain to you, you have one hour, and then the senator on the republican side will have an hour. i said well, is that equally divided? she said no, you have an hour. to say to a member of the house you have an hour is just unthinkable. you get an hour for a special order at 11:00 at night. otherwise, get 60 seconds is considered to be a luxury in the house. i didn't know what to do with an hour, and i certainly didn't use it all, but it's an indication of amendments coming to the floor with real debate. there was a senator from south carolina who opposed my amendment on the floor as well. and i can also remember coming to the floor and offering amendments literally on the spur of the moment when something came up that i thought was worthy. now, i didn't always win but that wasn't the point. i wanted to have a vote -- a