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Opinion: Brazil’s Democracy and Lula

Opinion by Michael Royster

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Yesterday a three-judge panel of the Federal Court of Appeals (TRF) in Porto Alegre unanimously confirmed the lower court decision that convicted former President Lula of corruption and money laundering and sentenced him to years in prison.

Under Brazil’s “Ficha Limpa” law, Lula is in theory barred from running for president; under Brazil’s criminal law, Lula can in theory be imprisoned after his appeal to the TRF is decided.

However, in practice nothing is certain. Lawyers and politicians hate theory, but love practice. Lula’s attorneys will file as . . .

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