After four years of the far-right government of Jair Messias Bolsonaro, Brazilians peacefully welcomed for the third time the inauguration of the popular center-left leader Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on New Year’s Day.
South America’s largest democracy will hold presidential elections on Oct. 2 with two iconic Latin American populists as competing candidates: Mr. Bolsonaro and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who served as president from 2003 until 2010.