Brazil is governed by ‘gang of madmen’: Lula 0 SHARES Share it! Share TweetBy Agence France-PresseFormer Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Friday said the country is governed by a “gang of madmen” in his first interview from prison, where he is serving an almost nine year sentence. “It can’t be that this country is governed by this gang of madmen … the country doesn’t deserve that and above all the people don’t deserve that,” Folha de S. Paulo reported Lula as saying of President Jair Bolsonaro’s far-right administration. Bolsonaro entered office in January, defeating Workers’ Party candidate Fernando Haddad, who replaced Lula after he was banned from running. Lula was convicted as part of Operation Car Wash, a wide reaching probe into corruption surrounding state oil firm Petrobras.

Source: Manila Bulletin April 27, 2019 02:37 UTC