New York Times: Defying Arrest Deadline, Brazil's Ex-President Dares Police to Come Get Him
SÃO BERNARDO DO CAMPO, Brazil — Former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil defied a Friday deadline to report to prison to begin serving a 12-year corruption sentence, daring authorities to haul him away from a union headquarters thronged by his supporters.
As the 5 p.m. deadline neared, Mr. da Silva’s supporters counted down the last five seconds. Then they began chanting: “There is no surrender!”
Mr. da Silva’s decision set the stage for a heated confrontation between the most loyal defenders of a polarizing, yet enormously popular politician, and law enforcement officials who regard his imprisonment as a defining moment in their yearslong effort to stamp out corruption in Brazil.
Brazilians were riveted by the drama on Friday amid uncertainty about when and how Mr. da Silva, once a lion of Latin America’s left, would be taken into custody.
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WNU Editor: Apparently he is negotiating his surrender to police .... Brazil ex-President Lula negotiating surrender with police (DW).
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1 comment:
Lula was a union head.
I did not like seeing him elected due to what I perceived his polices would be.
Still this is all very disappointing.
I expected more of him than Dilma Rousseff. I am not shocked that Dilma, who got religion in her teen years might go bad.
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