Due to the problems the new government inherited it will not be easy to revert the Brazilian situation. Lula and his team will face deteriorated economic and social circumstances with their own dynamic, limiting the actions and the short-term horizon.

The international situation or generalized economic hardship and threats of war is turbulent and unfavorable to the sovereign affirmation of nations such as Brazil.

But nothing should tie the administration's hands and those of its supporting forces.

The message of president Lula has been transmitting to the nation is one of firmness and determination to face the problems, evidently recognizing the objective difficulties.

The new government started to work and some messages and initiatives are remarkable. Notably the convocation of the society to the civic collective work of fighting famine. We are convinced that the possibility of the success of Lula's administration lies in popular mobilization, in awakening the creative force of the Brazilian people. The visit to the Brazilian Northeastern region, where the Brazilian absolute misery is revealed in a brutal and shocking way, is part of this context. Far from being a marketing move, it will mark the first steps of the new government by the force of denouncing the social wretchedness engendered by the Brazilian elites and its iniquitous economic and social system.

The program of fighting illiteracy and Minister of Education Cristovam Buarque's call to society and students bear the same sense. It is an ambitious project, a huge challenge, but an absolutely feasible objective. One should have no doubt that we will soon see legions of young and adults , students, teachers and professional of different sorts, civilians, members of the clergy and the military in an extraordinary campaign that will shine the vastness of the national territory and the deep strata of the population with the light of people acknowledging the first letters. As long as the popular mobilization is concerned, the Minister innovated. While visiting the headquarters of the influent National Union of Students yesterday and urging the students to keep mobilized in order to demand more resources for education, he pedagogically demonstrated that democracy in this new stage of the struggle of the Brazilian people may be translated also as participation and mobilization. And that exerting democratic pressure is legitimate and necessary in order to open the way to solving social problems.

According to the same terms, one could also mention the announced program of social inclusion by means of sports designed by the communist Minister of Sports Agnelo Queirós, which has drawn the attention of the United Nations. The Minister intends to mobilize the youth and popularize the practice of sports in the country with a view to improve education and promote social inclusion.

It is also noteworthy the effort to constitute the Council for Economic and Social Development with the organized participation of all representative segments and sectors of society. In order to symbolize the institutional importance the Council, it will be under the control of the president of the republic himself.

All the above are still partial initiatives yet to be tested, the first sketches of what could be a democratic administration concentrated in the social issue.