Word: luiz
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...Disgusted by the country's traditional political class, voters in 2002 turned in droves to the Workers Party, and installed the socialist former blue-collar worker Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva as president. But last year, Lula's reputation as a politician above reproach was shattered when investigators found that his government had handed out envelopes stuffed with cash to anyone who would support it in Congress. When it was revealed last month that scores of the country's deputies were skimming money off government contracts to purchase ambulances, it was hard for the citizenry to work up anything more...
...Since taking office in 2003, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has pledged to tackle both Brazil's security malaise and the inexcusable social conditions that have bred the gang violence. His opponent in the upcoming October election, former Sao Paulo governor Geraldo Alckmin, has boasted the state had triumphed over organized crime. The Sao Paulo crisis is likely to shine the spotlight on both their records."You can't say the PCC want to benefit one candidate or another, but there 's no doubt that they are smart and well-informed and that they know authorities are more vulnerable...
...What's more, not all the parties to the negotiations feel such a high degree of left-wing solidarity. Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva may be a leftist himself, but he views Chavez's more radical "21st-century socialism" with a dose of skepticism and concern. It is quite possible that the nationalization may have enhanced the bargaining position of Morales - who told TIME before his January inauguration that "the foreign companies have to be subordinate to the Bolivian people." But Mares and other experts warn that the fact that Morales sent armed troops into the country...
...When Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva won the race to become Brazilian president four years ago, it was arguably more because of who he was than what he might do. In fact, no one expected miracles from Lula, as he is known to everyone in this mammoth South American nation. Though he had a long and noble history of fighting for the little guy - in a country where the vast majority are little guys - the former shoeshine boy and union leader had little formal education and no experience in government; what's more, he altered many of his long-held...
...leftist and stridently anti-U.S. President of Venezuela, have gained little traction. Part of that is because L?pez takes pains to pair his social welfare ambitions with an investment-friendly business sense that Wall Street, for example, has found appealing in other modern Latin leftists like Brazilian President Luiz In?cio Lula da Silva...