The past five years have been unbelievably tumultuous for Brazil’s leading leftist politician, former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. In 2016, Lula’s Workers’ Party (PT) was cast from office after thirteen years in power when his chosen successor, Dilma Rousseff, was impeached on spurious grounds. Two years later, Lula himself was arrested on corruption […]

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