Discussed:

* From Sheffield to covering the Sandinistas.

* The failures of the far left against Latin America’s military dictatorships.

* “Running to stand still.”

* Fernando Henrique Cardoso and the Plano Real.

* Socialist idealism meets capitalist pragmatism.

* Brazil’s victims and beneficiaries of circumstance.

* A look into Lula’s psychology.

* No time for the ideological left.

* What BRICS means for Brazil.

* Lula’s relationship with Trump.

* The collapse of Brazil’s unionized working class.

* PT’s shift to a lobby for pensioners and the public sector.

* No time for the Lava Jato rabbit hole.

* Was Lula the only candidate who could have beaten Bolsonaro in 2022?

* Lula’s chances of winning amidst high(ish) rejection rates.

* The current state of Brazil’s economy.

* And much more!

Richard’s latest book, ‘‘Lula! The Man, The Myth and a Dream of Latin America’’ is available here. We also recommend checking out his other title, ‘Beef, Bible and Bullets: Brazil in the Age of Bolsonaro’, which you can find here.

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