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    Three years ago he was in prison. Now he's poised to be Brazil's next president

    NOVA IGUACU, Brazil — Three years ago, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was languishing in a prison cell. The former president of Brazil, who led the country from 2003 to 2010, was months into a 12-year jail sentence for corruption. His political career appeared to be over. So when he took the stage on a recent balmy evening in this working-class city outside Rio de Janeiro — smiling widely as a ...
    by Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times Sep 28, 2022 4 minutes
    Presidential candidate and former president of Brazil, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, 76, center, commonly known mononymously as Lula, holds a campaign rally in the Rio de Janeiro metropolitan area on Thursday, Sept. 8, 2022 in Nova Iguacu, Brazil.

    NOVA IGUACU, Brazil — Three years ago, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was languishing in a prison cell.

    The former president of Brazil, who led the country from 2003 to 2010, was months into a 12-year jail sentence for corruption. His political career appeared to be over.

    So when he took the stage on a recent balmy evening in this working-class city outside Rio de Janeiro — smiling widely as a crowd of thousands chanted his name — it was a comeback that once would have been unimaginable.

    Lula, as he is widely known, appears poised to win Brazil's presidential election. The question, polls suggest, isn't whether he will beat far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro, but when.

    Recent surveys have

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