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A Global Americans interview with Will Grant, author of Populista: The Rise of Latin America’s 21st Century Strongman
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Will Grant is the Mexico, Cuba, and Central America correspondent for the BBC, currently based in Havana, and the author of
Populista: The Rise of Latin America’s 21
st Century Strongman. In
Populista, Grant narrates the history of the rise and fall of the Pink Tide by tracing the biographies and political trajectories of six of its most emblematic and consequential figures: Hugo Chávez, Luiz Inácio ‘Lula’ da Silva, Evo Morales, Rafael Correa, Daniel Ortega, and Fidel Castro. Drawing on his extensive experiences as a foreign correspondent in Latin America, Grant provides an informative retrospective on the Pink Tide era, demonstrating how the combination of charismatic political leadership and inflated oil prices facili
Lula s judicial situation has changed. Recently, the Supreme Court of Brazil decided to annul the convictions against the former Brazilian president, which implied a possible money-laundering scheme, in what is known as the Lava Jato case. According to the Supreme Court, the actions that led to the conviction of Lula Da Silva, who was
initially sentenced to 12 years in prison , could not have taken place in Curitiba, because the events are not related to the scheme of diversions of Petrobras.
Precisely, the former candidate for president by the PT was accused of benefiting the construction company OAS (one of the 16 companies that defrauded Petrobras) in exchange for a three-story luxury apartment in Guarujá, a purchase that never materialized. However, through a statement, Minister Luiz Eson Fachin ruled that the cases should be restarted in the Federal Court of Brasilia.