A justice from Brazil’s top court has annulled all sentences against former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, restoring his political rights. … Then the empire is waging semiotic war, eroding Russia and China. Worker Party members chant, "Lula Free," showing their support during a demonstration outside the Supreme Court while holding a banner featuring Brazil's former President Luiz Inacio Lula … Former Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva speaks at the Metalworkers Union headquarters in Sao Bernardo do Campo, Brazil, on Wednesday. During that time, he helped lift tens of millions of Brazilians out of poverty. Perhaps Lula is just a romantic, a political poet, a humanist. There are demands to remember the poor. Lula’s political comeback adds to investors’ worries in Brazil. Former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva may now be able to run in Brazil’s 2022 presidential elections, after a lone Supreme Court justice threw out corruption charges against him. Brazil's former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva speaks from his home in Sao Paulo during an interview with The Associated Press via a cloud-based video conferencing service, as … COMMENTARY Neither present President Bolsonaro nor past President Lula is the leader Brazil's future needs. RECIFE, Brazil — The spectacle known as Lula is on the move. Brazil Car Wash FILE - In this Feb. 13, 2020 file photo, Brazilian former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva arrives for a meeting with the Italian Cgil union, in Rome. The ruling, which will be appealed, could set up a showdown between Lula and President Jair Bolsonaro, who has struggled in recent months with record deaths from COVID-19 and a flagging economy. As for Brazil, the Brazilian military was already dominated by the empire. Brazil's voters look stuck with them anyway. Brazil’s 2022 elections are still a year and a half away, but the playing field is becoming clearer — the PT remains the largest electoral force in Brazil, and unless more legal chicanery keeps him out of power, Lula will have a chance to assemble the forces needed to save the country from Bolsonaro. Da Silva, universally known as “Lula,” was wildly popular during his 2003-2010 presidency, when poverty fell as Brazil boomed, thanks in part to a commodities prices. According to Brazil's Supreme Court, the former leftist leader was not given fair treatment by the former judge who led the "Car Wash" investigations against Lula. The incumbent, a polarizing far-right leader who pays homage to Brazil’s military dictatorship, would face a formidable challenge in Mr. da Silva, widely known as “Lula” in Brazil… I find it hard to be optimistic right now. A criminal record prevented him from running against Bolsonaro in 2018. People in red are massing in the streets. With 270,000 Covid‑19 deaths it is second only to the US—although per head mortality is higher in Britain and other European countries. Brazil's former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva gestures as he speaks during a news conference in Sao Bernardo do Campo near Sao Paulo, Brazil March 10, 2021. Brazil suffers from a double affliction. Lula says he knows that the United States has a surplus of vaccines and that he will plead with Joe Biden to donate these immunizers to Brazil and other poorer countries A court has overturned the graft conviction of Luiz Inácio "Lula" da Silva, Brazil's popular former president, opening the way for him to face off in 2022 against current president Jair Bolsonaro. After Rousseff was ousted from power in what her supporters describe as a parliamentary coup, Lula was prosecuted and sentenced on corruption charges. Brazil's former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has said he would not rule out running again in 2022, and criticized world leaders for failing to tackle the coronavirus pandemic in a unified way. Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is calling on US President Joe Biden to ensure vaccine equity, in an exclusive interview with CNN's Christiane Amanpour. Luiz Inácio "Lula" da Silva is seen as much as a saviour as he is a sinner in Brazil: a man who came to power promising change yet ended up leaving politics with a very different legacy. It would be a clash of populist titans unlike anything the world has seen in recent memory. Brazil’s 2022 elections are still a year and a half away, but the playing field is becoming clearer — the PT remains the largest electoral force in Brazil, and unless more legal chicanery keeps him out of power, Lula will have a chance to assemble the forces needed to save the country from Bolsonaro. He is also the most senior politician to have been convicted as part of Operation Car Wash, the corruption scandal which brought down dozens of politician and business leaders across the country but which by some - including Lula - has been denounced as a political witch hunt. Lula's return to the political arena, with full political rights, should thus be welcome news to those who still believe in democracy in Brazil. Brazil's former President Lula had corruption convictions overturned this week and now may run against Bolsonaro in 2022. The empire is betting that they will have no substitutes. Leftist … Brazil’s political landscape was upended by the decision of a Supreme Court justice March 8 effectively tossing out the criminal convictions of former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. The media narrative that this move represents a threat to democracy is not only false but also disingenuous, at best, or hypocritical, at worst. Lula, who governed Brazil between 2003 and 2010, is a towering figure in left-wing politics in Brazil and beyond. Lula is a former union leader who served as president of Brazil from 2003 to 2010. 'Lula,' Brazil's Popular Ex-President, Freed From Prison — For Now A court ordered the release of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, one day after a Supreme Court decision cleared the way. Lula, Putin and Xi are old. Lula was the leader of Brazil between 2003 and 2011, before eventually making the way for his protégé, Dilma Rousseff. Social media in Brazil erupted with pictures of Lula donning a pair of red sunglasses or tearing into a punching bag with boxing gloves on.