Lula condemns Latin America's 'anti-democratic' elite
SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 2018
BRAZIL’S former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has accused Latin America’s elite of being hostile to democracy.
“The elite doesn’t want democracy — for them, it is no more than the poor yelling that they are hungry,” he said in an interview with former Ecuadorean president Rafael Correa.
Lula, as Mr da Silva is universally known, was the most popular president in Brazil’s history and still leads in the opinion polls. But he may be unable to stand at the next election because of a conviction for corruption that is widely seen as stitched up.
“In Brazil, there is a pact between the media, the justice system, the office of the attorney general and the police,” he said. “First, they criminalise people through the media and then, when the person is condemned, they carry out the judicial process.”
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