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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 19 May 2017

BRAZIL: Lula launches his political comeback

Brazil’s former president Lula da Silva (2003-2011) met his nemesis, Judge Sérgio Moro, during a much-anticipated corruption hearing in Curitiba in the southern state of Paraná last week. Not one to be easily intimidated, Lula used his defence trial as an opportunity to launch a political attack on federal prosecutors like Moro and formally declare his intention to run in the 2018 presidential elections.

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