Lula in jail after symbolically charged showdown (April 9, 2018)
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Former Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva turned himself in to the police on Saturday evening, after a two-day standoff that raised tensions in an already politically polarized country. Lula, as he is called, was ordered to report to police in Curitiba on Friday afternoon to begin serving a 12-year sentence for corruption. But the front-runner for October's presidential elections holed up in a metallurgical workers union headquarters in São Bernardo do Campo, in the outskirts of São Paulo, surrounded by thousands of supporters. The location is symbolic, the same union from which he began his political career that transformed Brazilian politics.
Lula in jail after symbolically charged showdown (April 9, 2018)
Lula in jail after symbolically charged…
Lula in jail after symbolically charged showdown (April 9, 2018)
Former Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva turned himself in to the police on Saturday evening, after a two-day standoff that raised tensions in an already politically polarized country. Lula, as he is called, was ordered to report to police in Curitiba on Friday afternoon to begin serving a 12-year sentence for corruption. But the front-runner for October's presidential elections holed up in a metallurgical workers union headquarters in São Bernardo do Campo, in the outskirts of São Paulo, surrounded by thousands of supporters. The location is symbolic, the same union from which he began his political career that transformed Brazilian politics.