'Brazil’s newly elected President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has scrapped plans to sell off eight state-run corporate giants, including the oil company Petroleo Brasileiro, known as Petrobras'

Excellent article on Lula's sweeping changes
countercurrents.org/2023/01/lula-h…

Lula's full inauguration speech in English : 'these last few years we have lived through, without a doubt, one of the worst periods of our history, an era of shadows, uncertainties and a lot of suffering'
ht BRASILWIRE
brasilwire.com/lulas-inaugura…

Wow Bolosonarists are mimicking Trumpists down to the selfies amid the vandalism of parliament.

We pair Brazil & US in analysis:
phenomenalworld.org/analysis/lula-…
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Crime and Punishment. Can Lula's coalition of Centre and Left in Brazil wield power effectively? That Bolsonaro fled to Florida and vandals have already been arrested is a good sign. twitter.com/GregGrandin/st…

Lula is in DC today where he met Biden & Bernie & AOC We wrote in Nov :'Instead of fearing autonomy from new Pink Tide governments, Biden should take the easy win of supporting Lula to achieve shared goals of planetary stability'
phenomenalworld.org/analysis/lula-…
twitter.com/POTUS/status/1…

Hope Lula's fiscal program is big coz settling trade in yuan does nothing to change Brazil's stagnation problem.
1. GDP has not grown for a decade!
2. Less and less value-added exports to China as soy and iron exports boomed oec.world
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Lula arrives in China today for 'most significant state visit' with an entourage of hundreds of business. Trade between the two countries – $150 billion – has soared 21 times since Lula’s first visit to China.
gov.br/planalto/en/la…
Our newseltter: phenomenalworld.org/analysis/merca…

Lula - 'I have now signed with President Xi Jinping agreements between our countries, to advance in areas such as renewable energy, the automotive industry; agribusiness, green lines of credit, information technology, health and infrastructure'

Lula signing investment deals with Sheikh MBZ in UAE after a similar visit to China.

Is Lula capable of leading a new nonalignment movement, I asked last year: phenomenalworld.org/analysis/non-a…
twitter.com/LulaOficial/st…

Lula goes to Beijing and is already being accused in European capitals of being a 'Putin puppet' and lack of delivery on environment David Adler

Will EU really blow up the Mercosur trade ELECTRIC CARS FOR MEAT deal with Latin America ? politico.com/newsletters/gl…

Can the West meet the green development dreams of Brazil? Can it deliver investment + technology+ financing deals that China offers? ht Alan Beattie
ft.com/content/0a6686…

Catherine Osborn on how China is supporting Lula's plans to move up value chain.
foreignpolicy.com/2023/04/21/bra…