"Brazil on Fire": Lula Launches Campaign to Unseat Bolsonaro & End His Authoritarian Rule
August 18, 2022
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as posted by the channelThis week former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva formally launched his campaign to challenge Brazil's far-right President Jair Bolsonaro this October. Fear is growing Bolsonaro might try to stay in office even if he loses, possibly with help from the Brazilian military. Lula, a union leader who held office from 2003 through 2010, is running on a platform to lift up Brazil's poor, preserve the Amazon rainforest and protect Brazil's Indigenous communities. In 2018, he was jailed on trumped-up charges, paving the way for the far-right Jair Bolsonaro to rise to power, but his convictions were annulled last year, restoring his political rights to challenge Bolsonaro. The presidential front-runners hold "two visions for Brazil," says reporter Michael Fox, former editor of NACLA and host of the new podcast "Brazil on Fire."
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