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Sep 21 2009, Domonique

During a recent speech at the CDES - the Brazilian Social and Economic Development Council - the president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, said that he is not to blame for the nearly decade long postponing of the so-called “tax reform,” which...

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