In 1994, Henrique de Campos Meirelles, then president of Bank of Boston's Brazilian subsidiary and a pillar of the Sao Paulo financial establishment, made an unusual overture. He organized a meeting between a half dozen top executives of multinational companies and Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, a left-wing presidential candidate whose opposition to privatization and calls for tougher tax enforcement and renegotiation of Brazil's foreign debt aroused fear and loathing among the country's business elite. The executives spent six hours with Lula and his aides discussing politics, economic policy and the future of Brazil - and disagreed on practically everything. But Meirelles found the meeting useful all the same.
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机译：1994年，时任波士顿银行巴西分行行长，圣保罗金融机构支柱的Henrique de Campos Meirelles提出了不同寻常的建议。他组织了六家跨国公司的高管与左翼总统候选人路易斯·伊纳西奥·卢拉·达席尔瓦（Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva）之间的会议，他反对私有化，并呼吁更严厉的税收执行和巴西外债的重新谈判引起该国企业的恐惧和厌恶。精英。高管们与卢拉（Lula）及其助手共度了六个小时，讨论政治，经济政策和巴西的未来-几乎对一切都持反对意见。但是梅雷莱斯发现这次会议同样有用。
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