2016 Olympics a crowning glory for Brazil leader

He is the Pele of politics, knighted the "most popular politician on Earth" by another contender for the title — Barack Obama.

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Brazil's Lula: I urged Obama to lobby for Olympics

Brazil's president says he's not worried that U.S. President Barack Obama is coming to Denmark to lobby that Chicago and not Rio de Janeiro should win the 2016 Olympics.

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Obama says most popular title belongs to Lula

President Barack Obama — wildly popular the world over — says he isn't the globe's most admired politician. He says that title belongs to Brazil's president.

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Brazil's Lula May Face Easy Re-Election

For generations, the women of this town would trudge more than a mile a day to a spring, wait hours in line, occasionally quarrel when the flow dropped to a trickle, then head home balancing buckets of water on their heads for drinking, cooking and bathing.

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Brazil's President Has Defied Expectations

Cars bound for Germany and Argentina line the docks, helping to boost Brazil's booming trade surplus. The country is winning praise from lenders and investors, and its currency is beating up on the U.S. dollar. Meanwhile, a corruption scandal is rocking the government.

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Iranian President Ahmadinejad has been traveling, looking for someone who would recognize him as the legitimate head of government. Most Iranians certainly don't, and his stock is pretty low in his own region.

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Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has approved a controversial bill allowing Amazon farmers to acquire an area of public land larger than France.

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The 5th Summit of the Americas, a gathering of all Hemispheric leaders, minus Cuba, entered its plenary session on Saturday in Trinidad and Tobago, where a lot of controversy is expected regarding its final declaration.

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Lula's domestic popularity has suffered a bit of a fall recently – he only has a 75% approval rating now, mid-way through his second term in office, which is down from over 80% a few months ago.

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Obama shook hands with President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and said: "This is my man, right here. I love this guy."

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As international lunacy goes, it was hard to beat the pope saying that condoms spread AIDS. But Brazil's president, known simply as Lula, gave it his best shot.

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Invigorated by the crisis, Brazil's president says he's praying for Obama.

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Fidel Castro is "working, writing and following the world situation," his friend Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez said on Friday after a prolonged silence from the 82-year-old former Cuban leader fueled speculation that his health was declining.

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Thirty one Latin American heads of state meet in Brazil. The meeting included Raul Castro of Cuba and excluded the United States and Europe. A reminder, according to some experts, that the United States is becoming "an ever more distant player in the affairs of the region"

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Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said that he agreed "100 percent" with former Cuban leader Fidel Castro on the responsibility of rich countries for the world economic crisis after a two-hour meeting with him in Havana.

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Latin American leaders are to gather in Chile today in an attempt to end a political crisis in Bolivia that has seen more than a dozen people killed.

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Bloomberg reports: Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said the country will at least triple its oil reserves from exploration of a new offshore area that includes the Western Hemisphere's largest discovery since 1976.

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He spontaneously decided to visit Cuba for the second time since he became President of Brazil, even though the state of my health did not guarantee that he would be able to meet with me.

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In the closing weeks of 2007, a region in revolt against the economics of corporate globalization issued its most unified declaration of independence to date.

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"The only real indications that an election is taking place are the sheets of paper posted on shop and office windows, with a photograph and short biography of each candidate.

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Leaders from the European Union and Latin America are currently holding summit talks in Vienna to discuss cooperation between the two regions.

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The Bank of the South appears to be one of the regions most compelling projects leading towards authentic Latin American financial bolstering, as well as helping to allow for a new-found autonomy.

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Most of all, Chavez is so dangerous for Washington and right-wing comprador elites in Latin America because he is pushing, no holds barred, towards democratic socialism.

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It is part of a plan to help restore infrastructure in some of Rio's best-known favelas.

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President seeks to energize innovation and industry.

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Just imagine if this happened in the States. The magazine in question has recently been very critical of Congressman involved in all sorts of scandal. They have investigated and broken many of the scandals surrounding Brasilian President Lula and his cronies and supporters.

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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - Brazil's Supreme Court on Tuesday charged one of the president's closest confidants with conspiracy in a corruption scandal that has toppled much of his inner circle.

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El Presidente Lula no quiere un nuevo período persidencial pero sí seleccionará un nuevo candidato seguramente de su partido.

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Very few Americans seem to know what is going on in the region, a new poll showed. A recent Zogby International poll showed that the large majority of Americans did not know the names of the presidents of Brazil and Mexico, the two biggest economies in the region.

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A leader for the poor, and the poor only

Lula's reputation with Brazilian middle class is a critical state

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