Lula Is Back – And He’s Ready to Beat Bolsonaro
In 2018, Lula led every poll for Brazil’s presidential election before he was stitched up with false corruption charges – now he’s vindicated, free to run in 2022 and ready to beat Bolsonaro.
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Benjamin Fogel is a historian and contributing editor at Africa is a Country and Jacobin.
In 2018, Lula led every poll for Brazil’s presidential election before he was stitched up with false corruption charges – now he’s vindicated, free to run in 2022 and ready to beat Bolsonaro.
Brazil’s Lava Jato investigation which jailed Lula was lauded by anticorruption campaigners in the West – but its legacy is the most corrupt president in the country’s history: Jair Bolsonaro.