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Can China Help Brazil Restart Its Global Soft Power?
• December 22, 2022
• 2,300 Words • 243 Comments • Reply
(Republished from Asia Times) Ten days of full immersion in Brazil are not for the faint-hearted. Even restricted to the top two megalopolises, Sao Paulo and Rio, watching live the impact of interlocking economic, political, social and environmental crises exacerbated by the Jair Bolsonaro project leaves one stunned. The return of Luiz Inácio Lula da... Read More
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Comeback Kid Lula in the Eye of a Volcano
Lula wins but his room for maneuver will be limited by powerful forces aligned against his Global South agenda
• October 31, 2022
• 1,600 Words • 298 Comments • Reply
Luis Ignacio “Lula” da Silva may be the ultimate 21st century political comeback kid. At 77, fit and sharp, leading an alliance of 10 political parties, he has just been elected as Brazilian president for what will be a de facto third term after his first two from 2003 to 2010. Lula even staged a... Read More
Brazil’s Lula in a Wilderness of Mirrors
• March 17, 2021
• 1,700 Words • 25 Comments • Reply
A surprising Supreme Court decision that, while not definitive, restores Lula’s political rights has hit Brazil like a semiotic bomb and plunged the nation into a reality show being played in a wilderness of shattered mirrors. At first, it looked like three key variables would remain immutable. The Brazilian military run the show – and... Read More
Brazil’s Money Laundering Scandal from Hell
• July 23, 2020
• 2,800 Words • 9 Comments • Reply
Two decades after a political earthquake, a powerful aftershock that should be rocking Brazil apart is being met with thunderous silence. What is now termed “the Banestado leaks” and “CC5gate” is straight out of vintage WikiLeaks: a list, published for the first time in full, naming names and detailing one of the biggest corruption and... Read More
Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva greets his followers after his release from prison. Photo: Roberto Stuckert
Released Lula in for Greatest Fight of His Life
Better not mess with the former Brazilian president; Putin and Xi are his real top allies in the Global Left
• November 11, 2019
• 1,600 Words • 72 Comments • Reply
He’s back. With a bang. Only two days after his release from a federal prison in Curitiba, southern Brazil, following a narrow 6×5 decision by the Supreme Court, former President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva delivered a fiery, 45-minute long speech in front of the Metal Workers Union in Sao Bernardo, outside of Sao Paulo,... Read More
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