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Article: Lula da Silva, Castro and China.(COMMENTARY)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- December 10, 2002
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Byline: Constantine C. Menges, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Today President George W. Bush is to meet with President-elect Luis Inacio Lula da Silva of Brazil, who will take office on Jan. 1, 2003. There will be cordial statements on both sides, photographs of friendly handshakes, and most observers will continue to believe Mr. Lula da Silva - despite his more than 20 years of self professed admiration for Fidel Castro - will govern as he posed during the election campaign, when he left behind his radicalism and projected the image of a pragmatic reformist.
That could happen, and many in the U.S. State Department seem to be making this hopeful ...