Big Decision to Shape Lula’s Future, and Brazil’s

Brazil’s economic and political future will be shaped by what happens in a courtroom in the southern city of Porto Alegre on Jan. 24. That’s the day a three-judge panel of the Fourth Federal District Court will decide whether to uphold former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s nine-and-a-half year sentence for graft and money laundering. The ruling will be instrumental in determining if Lula can run for president in October. He’s now leading in opinion polls.

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