With the return to power, Lula is once again glorified abroad. In the English Financial Times, “Lula’s return is the latest triumph in a life spent fighting adversity” (above). In the second statement, “Ascension of a poor shoeshine boy to the highest office in Brazil inspired millions in a deeply unequal nation”.
Opening text: “Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s journey from a prison cell four years ago to winning the highest office for the third time is a story of political comeback like few others. , defeating his rival Jair Bolsonaro, is just the latest victory in a life of triumph over adversity that has made him one of the most famous political names in the world.”
Frenchman Le Figaro followed the same line, under the title “Lula, the extraordinary life of the tireless champion of the left” (above).
Opening the text: “Thursday, three days before the second round, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva privately blew out 77 candles on his birthday cake. election is, without a doubt, the last of the icon of the Latin American left, whose long political and personal life has been marked by dramas, victories, downfalls, rebirths. You should never bury a politician of Lula’s caliber, born in poverty and who has already twice ascended to the presidency”.
In the American agency Associated Press, by the Washington Post and others, “‘Our phoenix’: Lula’s ups and downs in Brazil defy the ability to believe” (above).
Opening the dispatch: “Four years ago, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s reputation and political future were in shambles. After an unlikely rise from poverty to union leader and the presidency, the man universally known as Lula ended up in prison. Sunday –in yet another twist– Brazilian voters chose him by the narrowest of margins to once again lead the world’s fourth largest democracy. He will also be putting his legacy on the line. ‘They tried to bury me alive, and I’m here’, said”.
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The English correspondent for The Guardian, Tom Phillips, sought to escape the clichés and interviewed “biographer and friend” Fernando Morais, for the profile “Lula: the rise, fall and rise of the elected president of Brazil”, highlighting two passages.
One of them was the “final straw” for Lula, who resisted becoming more involved in the union, “when his brother was kidnapped and tortured by the security forces” of the military dictatorship in 1975. “It was a decisive moment”, emphasizes Morais. Another was a “scolding” by Cuban leader Fidel Castro, when the PT wanted to give up politics after losing his first election, for governor, in 1982.
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