Red card.

In Brazil, no two bedfellows could be odder than the table-thumping left-wing Workers Party (PT) and the expansionist capitalistic bank Bradesco. But in an effort to make a little money for the struggling socialists and even more for Brazil's largest private bank, the two have combined to issue a Worker Party affinity card. The PT Visa card, featuring the party's famed red star, is one for the party to raise funds to make up for last year's money-losing presidential campaign. The PT is at a low point after Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva blew what looked like a sure-thing presidency for the party. With Brazilians supporting Henrique Cardoso and his plans to adopt free-market economic reforms, Lula and the PT are increasingly being seen as a thing of the past.