Rio de Janeiro
Thursday, three days before the second round of the presidential election in Brazil, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva privately blew 77 candles on his birthday cake.
A moment of respite in a violent electoral campaign like the old wrestler had never known during his five previous candidacies.
His election on Sunday against outgoing President Jair Bolsonaro is undoubtedly the last of the icon of the Latin American left, whose long political and personal life has been marked by drama, victories, falls, rebirth.
You should never bury too quickly a politician of the caliber of Lula, born in poverty and who has already risen twice to the presidency (2003-2010).
Who imagined that, convicted of corruption, he would return three years later to once again occupy the Planalto palace in Brasilia, after defeating Jair Bolsonaro who wished him to "
rot
" the rest of his life in a cell?
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The…
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