This week will determine whether Brazil, by far the largest and most-populous nation in South America, will remain a democracy or lapse into another few decades of dreary dictatorship. On Oct. 30, former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (known simply as “Lula”) defeated incumbent Jair Messias Bolsonaro in a nationwide runoff. The official results […]
This week will determine whether Brazil, by far the largest and most-populous nation in South America, will remain a democracy or lapse into another few decades of dreary dictatorship. On Oct. 30, former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (known simply as “Lula”) defeated incumbent Jair Messias Bolsonaro in a nationwide runoff. The official results […]
