Brazil: Lula Declines Debate · Global Voices
David Sasaki

Boz says that President Lula da Silva made a big error by declining to show up for the first presidential debate. Opposition blogger Luís Afonso Assumpção is bothered by Lula's increasing numbers in the polls despite recent kidnappings by the PCC (First Command of the Capital). Andrew of Comings Communiqué calls Conor Foley's latest blog post “one of the best summaries of Brazilian politics that I have ever seen.”