BRASILIA ¨C Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was sworn in as Brazil¡¯s president on Sunday, delivering a searing indictment of far-right former leader Jair Bolsonaro and vowing a drastic change of course to rescue a nation plagued with hunger, poverty and racism.
In a speech to Congress after officially taking the reins of Latin America¡¯s biggest country, the leftist said democracy was the true winner of the October presidential vote, when he ousted Bolsonaro in the most fraught election for a generation.
Bolsonaro, who left Brazil for the United States on Friday after refusing to concede defeat, rattled the cages of Brazil¡¯s young democracy with baseless claims of electoral weaknesses that birthed a violent movement of election deniers.
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