...for el imperio, and that anti-U.S. affinity bridges all other differences. Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's embrace of Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in recent years is an even more troublesome example of...

...The euro became legal tender on this date in 2002.) In 2003, Brazil's first elected leftist president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, took office. In 2007, an Indonesian Boeing 737 jetliner crashed, killing all 102 people on board. Ban Ki-moon...

...crashed just after takeoff from Abuja airport, killing 96 of the 105 people on board. Brazil's president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, won re-election in a landslide.