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Lula: From Disgraced Leader to Brazil’s Saviour?

By Nikhil Bandlish “In Brazil, a poor man goes to jail when he steals. When a rich man steals, he becomes a minister.”  Congressman Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, 1988 Accurate? Fairly. Ironic? It would appear so. But for a number of precarious years, the Brazilian political system has been marred with turmoil; scandals, combative rhetoric […]