Lula’s foreign-policy ambitions will be tempered by circumstances
Brazil has changed a lot since he was last in power over a decade ago
“Brazil is back,” declared Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on the evening of October 30th. “Brazil is too great to be relegated to the status of a pariah in the world.” With that, the once and future president conjured up the activist global diplomacy he practised in office between 2003 and 2010. Many outsiders now expect a repeat performance. But since Lula left office the world has changed. Brazil has changed, too.
This article appeared in the The Americas section of the print edition under the headline “Lula’s new world”
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