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Why I Believe Lula Will Be a Candidate in October

By Brian Winter

Jailing a presidential frontrunner is “not the Brazilian tradition,” for better and for worse, writes AQ’s editor-in-chief.

In early 2004, I received a call from an editor in New York, asking me how much I knew about Fernando Henrique Cardoso. They were looking for a young (read: cheap) journalist to help Brazil’s president from 1995 to 2002 write his memoirs in English. I was flattered, but confessed that I had been to Brazil only once, spoke zero Portuguese, and I was much more familiar with Argentina. The editor replied, perhaps joking: “Isn’t it basically the same thing?”

So off I went to São Paulo, tape...

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