In Brazil, former union leader and head of the Workers’ Party Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was inaugurated Sunday for his third term as the country’s president, replacing far-right President Jair Bolsonaro. Lula served as Brazil’s most popular president from 2003 to 2010 and helped lift tens of millions of Brazilians out of poverty. But in 2018, as he prepared to run for office again, he was jailed on trumped-up corruption charges, paving the way for the election of Bolsonaro. The charges were later thrown out. Bolsonaro boycotted the ceremony, after first refusing to concede the election, and fled Brazil for Orlando, Florida, as he avoids criminal investigations. The new administration has vowed to fight poverty, invest in education and health, and halt illegal logging in the Amazon rainforest. We are joined by Maria Luísa Mendonça, director of the Network for Social Justice and Human Rights in Brazil, and journalist Michael Fox, host of the podcast “Brazil on Fire.”
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Viva Lula! ❤❤❤
Communism will be returning to Brazil. Love it enjoy
Can they please come and get George Santos. Please charge him for his crimes in Brazil.
Clean up the water.
Sewage going into that beautiful ocean is a travesty.
Christ The Redeemer has spoken!! ❤
Prevention is the miracle. Don't miss the miracle and think that you want have to use the law to get out of the mess you created.
Bolsonaro did us a favor running away from the country before Lula's inauguration ceremony. We brazilians were pleased see the representativo of minorities that Bolsonaro hates walking side by side with Lula to assume the presidency again, after 4 years of political shame and terror.
You not going to keep profiting off of war all THIS BS that you fighting over going to crumble.
I wept tears of joy for Brazil, especially for its people of colour and its indigenous people. I pray that God will continue to bless this nation as a model of good governance, unity and love not just for the Americas, but the entire world!
Glad Brazil got rid of their version of Trump
Only a matter of time before the US coups him again.
How many more time will take to the press to see the truth we living here in Brazil. Our basically rights, like the freedom of opinion or even to think different from the most are being degraded in the Lula government. We need to deal with market insecurity, a judiciary system who since there start of elections choose a side to support. The Senate has no use right now, the Stf, a high court, is using herself to promote, change and expire laws as they want and then world look a little not to see this all. We are under a process of dictature implant, and it's just starting. People who choosed the right policies are being pressured all times, we don't have the right to have firearms, although the bandits, the drug dealers and stealers surely will keep their guns. Please, someone at least try to help us. Press, try to have a more contextual overview of what we are living and what will come.
How can he get sanctuary when the rest of the people in south America and carribean are shut out.
Congratulations 🎉 Brazil 💚
Run Bolso..Run.. Run Home to Daddy.😂😂😂
Thanks everyone for the well wishes for Brazil! Hope is back into brazillian hearts again.
Brazil come back
Couldn't help tie in Trump with the other guy. Thanks for validating him.
More socialism!
Maybe this time it will work
I hold great hopes for people of color and indigenous folks of Brazil. Environmental issues loom high on my list of progress for Brazil.
Brazil is heading to starvation under the left
Lula is a corrupt idiot. Open your eyes. The last 4 years crime was going down. 20.000 less people murderd in 2022 then in 2018.
Fantastic
Viva Brazil🎉🎉🎉. We love you❤❤❤
Demo😈cracia 🙀 🆘 🇧🇷
Gracias Democracy Now y gracias Amy Goodman!
They seem to be dancing around the most obvious and problematic factor that got boss Sonora elected.
THE PEOPLE.
The people voted for bolsonaro so why did the people vote for this far right authoritarian fascist?
Lula is a close friend of Evo morales, Daniel Ortega, FARC and Fidel. His last government did a so big hole in economy, serious cases of corruption, was condemned, prisoned and after all that we need to deal with this kind of man as president?
Criminals from all over see Florida as a refuge…he can stay at Donnie's brothel. Maybe see some classified documents…
I fear for the Brazilians.
Congratulations 🎊 Brazil 🇧🇷 👏 💙 ❤
Long live Brazil , Long live democracy , Long live Brazilian people , Long live Lula ,I love Lula , Bolsonaro came to Florida to meet his equally shameless counterpart in west palm beach Florida, USA. He must not escape the judicial process of his havoc on Brazil.
Democracy is evil!!!
Whoever controls the ballot machines in a ballot machine election controls the outcome.
Democracy Now! becomes more satirical by the day.
Celebrating communism in power in a Catholic nation. No surprise.
Brasil is doomed, Lula is a facist. He destroyed Brasils economy the previous 7 years he was president. Now he has another term to finish the job. Come back here in 4 years and comment on my comment lol Brasil needs term limits before he stays in power for 20 more corrupt years.
That's the biggest criminal and liar from Brazil. We don't have democracy here anymore. The supreme Court from Brazil is a joke.
They freed up all the criminals and is charging the Brazilian people that don't agree with them.
The election was a real fraud and unfair to the country.
🙏🌎🌹
Sônia Guajajara, Marina Silva, Anielle and Sílvio Almeida are sponsored by US Open Society.
They really are inflitrated in left wing.
…is it just me or does the footage from 1:56 to 2:00 look like CGI?
The house of Horrors are back! No.. you are giving wrong news!, stop it. Lula is a criminal… now money from the Brazilian population will be sent again for Foro de São Paulo and Inter-American Dialogue criminal projects! Lula is involved with drugs, human trafficking, and corruption… we have a corrupted Supreme Court ..the justices are raping Brazilian Federal Constitution! As we speak.. we have an Indian in jail which goes against Human Rights.. but the Justice will try to put pressure to change some federal law regarding the indígenas land in Amazon where has the 2.9 bi tons of Niobio.. which Lula will give away in exchange of power and money for his own organization! And there is the OIL too!
This man is a CRIMINAL! He has already changed some laws and will destroy the education! It is all propaganda … nothing good from this organization!
That is good news for them, now time all crooked politicians in America to go – for good too.
What? He’s always been a communist and that’s not why a Supreme Court judge released him. He is a criminal. Brazilians have been protesting non stop. This is propaganda. Oh my god.
It's such an intense and joyous moment, on so many levels, that it feels like a dream here in Brazil! We have suffered for so long, the struggle since Dilma's coup, Marielle's assassination, and the Bolsonaro years was so unfair that we feel deeply renewed!
Democracy my a$$, the Brazil is kapput, Lula almost destroyed the country last time and he will do it again, if you don’t believe it, look at Nicaragua with Daniel Ortega 😂
I would like you Americans to go to Bolsonaro's house in Florida. to show the indignation for him being there kkk
La luta continua. Jah RastafarI guide and protect Brazil.
Bolsonaro is now in Florida meeting with Trump…
Good luck to Lula against the Langley boys, planning a coup as we speak. Now get busy with the other BRICS nations to introduce an alternative to the petrodollar.
democracy comunist?
Hold on! Only Bolsonado can know the true reason why Bolsanado is staying in Florida, or doing anything!