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...president Dirceu - who as a radical student leader was exiled to Cuba from 1969 to 1974 by Brazil's military rulers before slipping back into the country with a surgically altered face - has made it clear, with a somewhat high hand, that party discipline now means not criticizing Lula directly. Because it took Lula and the PT 22 years and four elections to win the presidency...
Dream Team Lula hopes his diverse cabinet will get the right mix of policies...
Jose Dirceu An ex-radical, Lula's chief of staff has guided the President from the far left to a more centrist position...
Jose Graziano Da Silva As Food Security Minister, the former economist will run Lula's Zero Hunger project...
...says one Lula friend, "he's more cautious about not flaming out and screwing up" like so many Latin lefties before him. In a closed-door meeting last month, Lula warned regional PT leaders, "We can't fail in this economic situation." Lula realizes that an erstwhile socialist has to work that much harder to prove he's a market-friendly President. Revenue gaps recently forced Palocci to slash $4 billion from the $75 billion budget (Brazil's most austere in a decade), while Meirelles raised interest rates 4.5 points to 26.5% in hopes of keeping 2003 inflation to single...