🎃 Good morning, and Happy Halloween! This week, we talk about Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s narrow but huge win in the presidential runoff — and how he pulled it off. And the challenges he will face.
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Lula defeats Bolsonaro by a whisker
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won the tightest presidential runoff in Brazilian history, obtaining 50.9 percent of the votes in a head-to-head contest against incumbent Jair Bolsonaro. The narrow and momentous win is yet another remarkable turn in the history of Brazil’s most improbable leader — a man born into poverty, who shined shoes on the streets, became a union leader, and has now won three presidential races, an unprecedented feat.
- It is a comeback of the ages for Lula, who two years ago was serving a prison sentence for corruption and money laundering (convictions...