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Lula da Silva, Luiz Inácio

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Brazil and Lula: Between sovereignty, constituent power and might

by Julio Yao Villalaz

Panama (Panama) | 6 April 2018

There is nothing new about what is happening today in Brazil where President Dilma Roussef was impeached by the Senate and “Lula” da Silva, the former president who is aspiring once again to be elected president, is very soon to be put in jail. There is no novelty because other Latin American (...)

Lula da Silva kicks off campaign in the Middle East

by Thierry Meyssan

Beirut (Lebanon) | 19 March 2010

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s recent high-profile visit to Israel and the West Bank was undoubtedly a successful public relations and communications operation ... but to what end?

My Recent Meeting With Lula

by Fidel Castro Ruz

Havana (Cuba) | 2 March 2010

We met in Managua, on July 1980, 30 years ago, —during the commemoration of the first anniversary of the Sandinista Revolution—thanks to my contacts with the followers of the Liberation Theology, which had started in Chile when I visited President Allende there in 1971.

by Fidel Castro Ruz

Havana (Cuba) | 25 January 2008

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He spontaneously decided to visit Cuba for the second time since he became President of Brazil, even though the state of my health did not guarantee that he would be able to meet with me.
In the past, as he himself said, he visited the Island almost every year. I met him on the occasion (...)