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Pro-PT Rallies and Suspension of Lula as Chief of Staff in Brazil

By Lise Alves, Senior Contributing Reporter

SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – Thousands turned out throughout Brazil on Friday to show their support for former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the Workers’ Party (PT) and the Rousseff government. The demonstrations were a response to Sunday’s mass rallies across the country calling for the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff and the nomination of Lula as Rousseff’s Chief of Staff. A nomination which was suspended on Friday night by a Supreme Court Justice.

In São Paulo, according to police, 80,000 people turned out to hear Lula speak. “I want . . .

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