Tag: Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

Brazil’s Lula to reclaim presidency after beating Bolsonaro

RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazilians delivered a very tight victory to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in a bitter presidential election, giving the leftist former president another shot at power in a rejection of incumbent Jair Bolsonaro’s far-right politics. Da Silva received 50.9% of the vote and Bolsonaro […]

Brazil ex-president, out of jail, vows to make ‘lives hell’

SAO PAULO — A fired-up former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, freshly out of jail, vowed to fight Brazil’s far-right government and the forces he says unjustly incarcerated him, saying he would make “their lives hell.” “They don’t know what it is to face a 74-year-old passionate […]

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