I live in Espírito Santo state, Brazil. I work with the people that suffer impacts from the large scale monocultures whose raw material supplies the first world. To talk about G8… first of all, I have very few informations about it. I know very little about what G8 means. What I know is when it hits us. The information that gets here is that it is G8 that determines world economic policies. Consequently, it determines all social, environmental, and cultural life of the other countries. So here in Espírito Santo we suffer the consequences of G8, of the political decisions taken at the G8. I think that the Brazilian government would have a key role in giving G8 a new direction. Why? Because Lula presents himself at world conferences as a representative of the third world countries. However, what I understand is that leaders of third world countries that we live in easily let themselves being carried by external policies than internal policies. So I think that Lula, with his social and politics background – he was a person from the bottom, of this country’s union leadership, that knew all the problems – should be sensitive in order to clarify the true reality of third world countries. And more than that, to influence, be a protagonist of third world countries, of the leaders of third world countries. And in this way to influence the policies of this big group to build a healthy policy and not a destroying one, of the Latin-American people, of the third world people, that are who suffers the most the consequences of these decisions taken by the first world.
Alicir is from Brazil.