“Today our message is one of hope and reconstruction,” Brazil's Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said in a speech in Congress after being sworn in as president, taking the helm of Latin America’s biggest nation
BRASÍLIA—Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the 77-year-old icon of the Latin American left, returned to power Sunday, 12 years after his last stint as president. This time around he faces some of his toughest challenges yet, from uniting a bitterly divided nation toand boosting the incomes of millions of desperately poor families.
Thousands of supporters, many singing and waving the Workers’ Party crimson flag, joined dignitaries from across the Americas in the capital for the inauguration and a festival of open-air concerts to celebrate Mr. da Silva’s return.
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