Lula da Silva was also re-elected by the Brazilians that year ... In his first speech to the nation, he promised to close the Guantánamo Bay prison as soon as possible, a promise that he failed to ...

However, the chief justice of the TRF-4 appeals court, Carlos Eduardo Thompson Flores, granted a request from prosecutors to keep Lula in prison, blocking Favreto’s ruling. The former president ...

BRASILIA, Brazil — Brazil´s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is pressing the country’s environmental regulator to approve exploratory drilling near the mouth of the Amazon River ...