Lawfare Archive: How is Lula Doing?
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🗓️ 9 August 2025
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From June 7, 2023: On January 1, 2023, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was sworn in as president of Brazil. A week later, insurrectionists in Brazil stormed government buildings, including the president’s palace, the Supreme Federal Court, and the National Congress building to violently disrupt the democratic transition of power and challenge the results of the election. Lula, however, remained undeterred and forged ahead.
It’s been roughly 150 days since those events, and Lawfare Legal Fellow Saraphin Dhanani sat down with Brian Winter, Editor-in-Chief of Americas Quarterly and a journalist with over a decade of experience living and reporting across Latin America, to discuss how Lula has fared in his first 100 days in office, his vision for reviving Brazil’s place in the world, and the political forces he’s up against.
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| 1:30.3 | Music Learn more at freshworks.com. I'm Mary Ford, Internet Lawfare, with an episode for the Lawfare Archive for August 9th, 2025. This week, President Trump announced a new round of sweeping tariffs. |
| 1:34.3 | Brazil and India were two of the most hard-hit countries, with tariff rates jumping to 50% on Wednesday. |
| 1:41.3 | While President Trump's economic brinksmanship has led some countries like |
| 1:45.9 | Switzerland to come to the negotiating table, Brazilian President Luis Inaccio Lula de Silva |
| 1:51.5 | has been defiant in his response. In an interview with Reuters on Wednesday, Lula indicated |
| 1:57.7 | that he had no intention of having direct talks with President Trump, saying he, quote, won't humiliate, unquote, himself. |
| 2:05.8 | For today's archive episode, I selected an episode from June 7, 2023, in which Serafine Denani sat down with editor-in-chief of America's quarterly Brian Winter to take stock of President Lula's |
| 2:18.9 | performance in his first hundred days in office, his vision for Brazil, and more. |
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