Tag: lula

Brazil Reinvents Politics as the Art of Getting Dirty and Still Win

A month before the presidential and legislative elections of October 2006, politics in Brazil ...

Hackers Invade Brazil’s Ruling Party Site and Post Obscene Message

"Chega dessa porra" (Enough of this shit!) was one of the messages left by ...

Heloísa: The Leftist Maverick Senator Vying to Be Brazil’s First Woman President

Heloísa Helena, a leftist senator from the impoverished northeast state of Alagoas, Brazil, has ...

Lula Hits Back at Brazilian Congress

Disgust is probably the best word to sum up the Brazilian electorate’s view of ...

Polls Show Brazil’s Lula Has no Chance of Being Reelected in Sí£o Paulo

If Paulistas (residents from São Paulo, Brazil’s most populous and wealthy state) could decide ...

Workers Party Gives Brazil’s Lula a Decalogue to Lose the Reelection

The ten commandments created by the PT (Workers Party) to shape Brazilian President Luiz ...

Brazil: Lula/Alckmin Gap Falls to 10 Points. Second Round Likely.

The certainty that Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will win reelection this ...

Pity the Brazilian Voter

The line-up for the presidential election is now complete and one can only feel ...

Brazil’s Lula Has Become All He Used to Hate

For many Brazilians, the October 2002 election of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva ...

Brazil’s Opposition Presidential Candidate Alckmin Has No Charisma

Brazil’s leading opposition candidate, Geraldo Alckmin, said during his party’s national convention, Tuesday, June ...