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Montevideo, April 18th 2026 - 10:07 UTC

Tag: Lula da Silva

  • Thursday, May 12th 2022 - 10:53 UTC

    New poll says Lula may not need a runoff to win Brazil's elections in October

    Lula now makes every word count to retake a reassuring lead

    Following weeks of uncertainty during which incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro was closing in on challenger and former head of state Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva in most polls, the Workers' Party (PT) leftwing leader has been once again reported to have an unsurmountable edge which could even earn him a first-round victory comes Oct. 2.

  • Wednesday, May 11th 2022 - 09:50 UTC

    “Bolsonaro, your days are numbered,” warns Lula

    Lula's followers fear Bolsonaro might not acknowledge defeat

    Former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva warned the incumbent Jair Bolsonaro that the latter's days as head of state were “numbered.”

  • Tuesday, May 3rd 2022 - 14:54 UTC

    Lula's advisors insist on unified currency for Latin America

    Galípolo and Haddad described the project in an article published by Folha de Sao Paulo

    Former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva and his economic team would push for a unified regional currency like the Euro to end South America's inclination to the US dollar should he win the Oct. 2 elections over the incumbent Jair Bolsonaro, it was reported Monday.

  • Monday, May 2nd 2022 - 21:17 UTC

    Labor Day becomes election campaign street demonstration in Brazil

    Bolsonaro walked through his supporters and said very little while Lula gave yet another speech

    Sunday's Labor Day demonstrations in Brazil were tainted with political connotations as massive events nationwide gathered leftwing followers of former President Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva on one side and those of rightwing incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro on the other.

  • Friday, April 29th 2022 - 09:42 UTC

    UN Committee agrees Lula's conviction was against the law

    Lula called the ruling ”a victory for all Brazilians who believe in the rule of law and democracy''

    As incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro keeps closing in on the former head of State Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva ahead of this year's Oct. 2 elections, the United Nations Human Rights Committee Thursday ratified the PT leader's tights had been violated when he was tried and convicted for corruption in another episode of the Lava Jato saga.

  • Monday, April 25th 2022 - 09:59 UTC

    Brazil: Lula's PT in trouble as Bolsonaro closes in

    While Lula remains within his comfort zone, pressure to go out and look for votes is increasing

    The Workers' Party (PT) of former President Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva has been reported to be facing financial problems ahead of this year's elections as President Jair Bolsonaro keeps closing in on most polls.

  • Wednesday, April 13th 2022 - 20:50 UTC

    Lula vows to halt garimpo on Indigenous lands

    “Everything this government has decreed against Indigenous peoples must be repealed immediately,” said Lula

    Former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva Tuesday pledged to halt all illegal gold mining -locally known as garimpo- at Indigenous reserves in the country's northeast if he is elected back into office in October.

  • Wednesday, April 13th 2022 - 09:30 UTC

    Latin America’s New Pink Tide? Or three brands of “Left” regimes

    After AMLO's victory in 2018, came Alberto Fernández in 2019, Bolivian President Luis Arce in 2020, and Peruvian President Pedro Castillo and Chilean President Gabriel Boric in 2021.

    By Jorge G. Castañeda (*) – Like the wave of leftist victories in the early 2000s following Hugo Chávez’s rise to power in Venezuela (1999-2013), the success of left-wing leaders across Latin America in recent years has been interpreted as a broader political paradigm shift. But these leaders’ substantive differences are more significant than their similarities.

  • Saturday, April 9th 2022 - 16:39 UTC

    Lula officially announces Alckmin will be his running mate

    In case of victory, Alckmin would also be Lula's Agriculture Minister

    Former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of the Workers' Party (PT, left) Friday announced in an official manner that his former rival in the 2006 elections, Geraldo Alckmin, will be his running mate Oct. 2.

  • Tuesday, March 22nd 2022 - 09:55 UTC

    Bolsonaro insists Judiciary wants him to lose reelection

    Bolsonaro has been consistently narrowing the gap with Lula. Photo: REUTERS / ADRIANO MACHADO

    Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro of the rightwing Liberal Party (PL) Monday insisted the country's Judiciary wanted him to lose this year's elections, following Supreme Federal Court (STF) Justice Alexandre De Moraes' decision to ban Telegram unless some content was removed.