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Article: Lula and business: Brazil. (Presidential Candidate Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- June 4, 1994
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NOT long ago, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, lathe operator turned politician, furrowed his brow gravely and asked a visitor some sartorial advice. "Do you think I should change?" He pointed to his loud red-and-white striped T-shirt. In the next room, a photographer was waiting his turn to shoot. "If it were up to me," he went on, "I'd never wear a coat and tie." But for Mr da Silva times were already changing.
The man known to all Brazil simply as Lula was by then the runaway leader in opinion polls for October's presidential election. Chairman of the Workers' Party (PT), he stared at a diary full of appointments with businessmen, foreign diplomats, governors and ...