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Brazil: Lula Declines Debate

Categories: Latin America, Brazil, Elections, Politics

Boz says that President Lula da Silva made a big error by declining to show up for the first presidential debate [1]. Opposition blogger Luís Afonso Assumpção is bothered by Lula's increasing numbers in the polls despite recent kidnappings [2] by the PCC (First Command of the Capital). Andrew of Comings Communiqué calls [3] Conor Foley's latest blog post [4] “one of the best summaries of Brazilian politics that I have ever seen.”