Sublime

Once elected, Lula backed up his commitment to stability by appointing Henrique Meirelles, a banker who had contested the election as a candidate for a senatorial seat for Cardoso’s PSDB party, to the central bank. The incoming finance minister, Antônio Palocci, appointed a series of ‘market-friendly’ technocrats to advise him. Palocci had been a T

When I interviewed him in 2006, Lula da Silva talked a lot about this combination of economic stability and trade growth. He had grown up on a farm in rural Pernambuco in the north-east, and in the early 1950s made the long trip to São Paulo with his mother and brothers on the back of a lorry. During his teens, Lula had sold oranges and peanuts at

a um aluno ao mesmo tempo ideal e real que está no limiar da idade adulta, mas pertence ainda, devido a muitos laços, ao mundo da infância.

“otimismo aprendido”.