August 31, 2019, Strategic Culture
Foundation (Russia) https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2019/08/31/brics-was-created-as-a-tool-of-attack-lula/
Former Brazilian leader Lula speaks from a room in a prison in southern Brazil. Photo: Editora Brasil 247
Pepe ESCOBAR
Former Brazilian leader wishes emerging economies
were closer, recalls Obama ‘crashing’ Copenhagen climate meet
In
a wide-ranging, two-hour-plus, exclusive interview from a prison room in
Curitiba in southern Brazil, former Brazilian president Luis Inacio Lula da
Silva re-emerged for the first time, after more than 500 days in jail, and sent
a clear message to the world.
Amid
the 24/7 media frenzy of scripted sound bites and “fake news”, it’s virtually
impossible to find a present or former head of state anywhere, in a
conversation with journalists, willing to speak deep from his soul, to comment
on all current political developments and relish telling stories about the
corridors of power. And all that while still in prison.
The first part of this
mini-series focused on the Amazon. Here, we will focus on Brazil’s relationship
with BRICS and Beijing. BRICS is
the grouping of major emerging economies – Brazil, Russia, India and China –
that formed
