Lula’s gaffes are dulling Brazil’s G20 shine
Its relationships with the West are healing. But Brazil has not decided what kind of country it will be
The summit is not until November, but the meetings have already begun. Foreign ministers arrived in Rio de Janeiro on February 21st to inaugurate Brazil’s presidency of the G20, an intergovernmental talking shop for countries representing over 80% of global GDP. Finance ministers and central-bank governors held their own opening pow-wow in São Paulo on February 28th and 29th. Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (known as Lula), aims to use his year at the helm of the G20 to convince the world of his most repeated promise, that “Brazil is back”.
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This article appeared in the The Americas section of the print edition under the headline “Bringing back Brazil”
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