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...The fight for social justice certainly remains a potent unifying force, bringing together figures as diverse as Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Colombia’s leader Gustavo Petro....
...A: Brazil’s Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (“Lula”) According to Google Trends data, El Salvador is — per capita — the second-highest-ranked country for searches for “bitcoin”. Which country is number one?...
...It’s persuaded Panama, El Salvador and Nicaragua, among other countries, to switch their allegiance. Here’s the FT’s Greater China correspondent Kathrin Hille....
...In 2003, when Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva began his first term as president of Brazil, Chinese growth was at its most powerful....
...Elsewhere in Latin America, Brazil’s Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won a presidential election at the fourth attempt in 2002, and so, in 1970, did Chile’s Salvador Allende....
...It was Bernat, for instance, who in 1969 commissioned Salvador Dalí to create the logo for his lollipops....
...Mexico, too, has an interventionist, populist president, an oil company run by someone with no industry experience — Petrobras’s new boss (Joaquim Silva e Luna, pictured right, with Bolsonaro) is a reserve...
...On Wednesday, protesters booed Mr Salles during a climate conference in the northern city of Salvador....
...Brazil’s Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is in prison. Ecuador’s Rafael Correa is in exile. Peru’s Alan García killed himself....
...In two of Brazil’s states it is more than 60, higher than in El Salvador, the world’s most murderous country. Rio’s militias are far from the only challenge....
...Sinyavino, St Petersburg, Russia Dancing devils Revellers dressed as devils walk among fireworks during Correfocs (fire runs), a traditional celebration in eastern Spain Inactive activist A supporter of Salvador...
...Even as the film was being released, federal police revealed they had found the country`s biggest hoard of criminal cash in an apartment in Salvador, northeastern Brazil — R$51m allegedly belonging to Geddel...
...As Héctor Silva, a Salvadoran research scholar at the American University in Washington puts it: “The difference between what is happening now and two years ago is that the state is in the position of strength...
...“Mexico has become a wall for migrants,” said Sister Magdalena Silva, co-ordinator of Cafemin, a privately run shelter in Mexico City that takes in refugee families, including Rosa’s....
...The star name in the team is Neymar da Silva Santos Júnior, team captain and Brazil’s best player....
...Even the seemingly auspicious rise of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to the Brazilian presidency that same year drew only a wry aside....
...These would include highways, ports, rail and three airports for the cities of Salvador, Porto Alegre and Florianópolis....
...“Brazil will still win,” said another Brazilian at the Salvador match. “What happened to Neymar is the normal type of setback you get in football.”...
...Under the leftwing governments of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (2003-10) and Dilma Rousseff (2011-present) infrastructure has been a priority, but progress has been patchy....
...Other famous sons of the region include former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, whose family moved from Pernambuco to São Paulo when he was a boy....
...Brazil’s captain, Thiago Silva, told the French magazine So Foot: “Our team bus had tinted windows, so we could see Brazilians party but they couldn’t see us respond....
...On one occasion there were so many girls waiting for him at Salvador airport that his bodyguards locked him in the toilet for an hour for his own protection....
...“It is a regional disaster,” says Roberio Silva, head of the International Coffee Organisation. “It is not just a coffee disease. La roya is an economic disease.”...
...Mr Lula da Silva, who was in office while the scheme was in operation, insists he knew nothing about it....
...Then came Brazil’s Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in 2002. Bolivia, Paraguay and El Salvador followed....
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