Fall from grace in Lulaland

摘要

WHEN he was elected as Brazil's president in 2002,Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva promised to be much more than just another politician.His own biography made that clear:born in poverty,he rose from shoe-shine boy to trade-union leader to founder of the Workers' Party (PT),the largest left-wing force in Latin America.Lula and his party not only stood for social reform but claimed,from their experience in local administration,a monopoly on clean government in Brazil.To this they added a last-minute conversion to economic orthodoxy.