Before the attempt to ruin Lula’s political career, the again President of Brazil had shown his credentials as a leader on the national and world stage As the unpleasant, waste-of-time, embarrassing, humiliating presence of Bolsonaro and his troup slink off into the darkness of political obscurity, we see in Brazil again a welcome dawning of Luiz Inácio da Silva, or simply, Lula. President of Brazil between 2002 and 2010, at the beginning of this century President Lula lifted forty million Brazilians out of poverty and placed Brazil in the centre of the world stage, aiding developing countries across the world. Brazil could only do this if the motor of its own economy was purring smoothly, and this Lula delivered with social programmes. Extreme poverty was reduced by nearly ten per cent in his first four years in office, the buying power of the average Brazilian doubled, as the government focused on quality education and distribution of wealth, which before Lula had been concentrated in the hands of a few.