When doing fieldwork for my book on Brazilian social movements in 2010, I heard many people express a kind of qualified support for the outgoing Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva administration. Lofty goals, from eradicating hunger, to challenging US-backed free market reforms, propelled the former steelworker and labor leader into power when first elected in More
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