An ongoing political and economic crisis once more threatens to fell the tallest tree in Brazil’s political landscape: former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
His once-sterling legacy, previously tarnished by a Congressional vote-buying scandal, is being sullied further by economic and political turmoil that has driven approval ratings for his hand-picked successor into single digits.
And a far-reaching corruption probe around state-run oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA, or Petrobras, has implicated key aides and associates, once more staining his scandal-plagued Workers’ Party, now in its 13th year in power.
Although Lula has not been charged with a crime – and it is too early to write off a leader who has dominated Brazilian politics for well over a decade – love for the man Barack Obama once called “the most popular politician on earth,” is waning.
Brazil Energy Insight 
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