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Article: Lula finds success in Washington. (Global News).(Luis Inacio Lula da Silva meets with George W. Bush)
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- The Banker
- Article date:
- January 1, 2003
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Luis Inacio Lula da Silva's first diplomatic foray to Washington since his election as Brazil's new president succeeded with remarkable ease in disarming conservative critics in the US Congress and press, while reassuring sceptical interlocutors in the Bush administration and the IMF of his economic policy intentions.
The thorny issues of fiscal discipline, price and currency stability, foreign debt service and free trade will test the credibility of Mr Lula da Silva's transformation from firebrand opposition leader to businesslike chief executive of South America's largest economy.
Yet the images beamed back home in early December of the ...