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How Lula’s big-tent pragmatism won over Brazil again – with a little help from a backlash to Bolsonaro

  • Written by Anthony Pereira, Director of the Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Center, Florida International University
imageBrazilian President Lula greets journalists, in Brasilia, one year after rioters stormed the presidential palace, Congress and Supreme Court buildings.AP Photo/Eraldo Peres

A year is a long time in Brazilian politics.

When Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva assumed office in Brazil for a third time in January 2023, many observers were pessimistic about...

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