Brazil’s Lula cleared to run again: Can he write a new chapter?
Mar 19, 2021
4 minutes
For Milena Fernandes, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s eight years as president of Brazil marked an era of opportunity.
“I was a poor kid, who studied and worked my way up,” says Ms. Fernandes, who grew up in a far-flung suburb in Rio de Janeiro’s North Zone and now works at a nonprofit’s school in the Tabajaras favela. “The Lula era was great for me. I had good opportunities.”
But Ms. Fernandes has mixed feelings about the prospect of a political comeback by Lula, as the former president is popularly known, now that a judge has scrapped corruption convictions that barred him from politics. “I don’t have a bone to pick with Lula – it was the best government we’ve
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