In 2002, after a long political struggle, Lula was elected Brazil's first working class President amid huge expectations that he and the Workers' Party would bring much-needed reform. A great deal was achieved, including a dramatic reduction in poverty. But, just months before the staging of the World Cup in 2014, a series of social protests swept across the country. In 2015, further demonstrations erupted, with insistent calls for the impeachment--for corruption--of Lula's re-elected successor, President Dilma Rousseff.
Brazil Under the Workers' Party, the first serious...
In 2002, after a long political struggle, Lula was elected Brazil's first working class President amid huge expectations that he and the Workers' Part...
