Word: luiz
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...Summoning Spirits? I was disappointed to see Brazil's President, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, cast alongside Hugo Chávez - a clearly paranoid and delusional man - as simply another "leftist anti-Yanqui" South American leader [Oct. 8]. It seems that Tim Padgett is more interested in stirring the old ghosts of anti-commie sentiment, which in South America led to the disastrous and brutal rule of the U.S.-backed military juntas (from which many countries are still reeling), than in presenting us with an accurate account of current politics. Pedro Morais, Lisbon...
...earlier age, as if the U.S. were watching a meeting of a Che Guevara fan club. Leftist, anti-Yanqui sentiments, thought to have faded with the 20th century, have made a comeback, embodied by leaders like Venezuela's radical Hugo Chàvez, Brazil's former union boss Luiz Inàcio Lula da Silva and Bolivia's socialist Evo Morales. Never mind coming to terms with these leaders--the U.S. finds it hard even to talk with them. An interpreter would be useful...
...Harvard Law School’s most well-known professors has taken a leave of absence to join the government of leftist Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula de Silva...
...dumped this catfish in my lap?' LUIZ INACIO LULA DA SILVA, President of Brazil, expressing annoyance upon learning that the nation's environmental agency rejected a proposed $11 billion hydroelectric project on the Amazon River...
Price of a program introduced by Brazil's President, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, to subsidize birth-control pills. Under the plan, a month's supply of pills will cost about 20?...