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Weekly Report - 14 January 2010 (WR-10-02)
BRAZIL: Lula forced to backtrack on human rights decree
President Lula da Silva has been compelled to backtrack on a decree
establishing a National Human Rights Plan, which he signed, apparently without
having read it all, before leaving for holiday just before Christmas. The decree
generated controversy among several sectors of Brazilian society, not least the
military. But, it also split the cabinet between the ruling Partido dos
Trabalhadores (PT) and the centrist Partido do Movimento Democrático Brasileiro
(PMDB), jeopardising Lula's plan to elect his designated successor, the minister
of the presidency, Dilma Rousseff, in October.
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