AFP
Brazil’s Lula faces trial for obstruction of justice
https://www.yahoo.com/news/brazils-lula-face-trial-obstruction-justice-official-193657393.html
Brasília (AFP) - Ex-Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who was key in getting the Olympics to Rio, will be put on trial for allegedly trying to obstruct a corruption probe at Petrobras oil company, officials said Friday.
“The charge is obstruction of justice” linked to the Petrobras embezzlement probe, named Operation Car Wash, a spokesman for the justice ministry told AFP.
Lula, 70, was formally charged along with six others, including former senator Delcidio do Amaral, a once-important ally in Lula’s leftist Workers’ Party who is accused of Petrobras-related corruption and has become a state’s witness.
Lula, as he is universally known in Brazil, was president from 2003-2010 and left office with massive popularity thanks to social programs that lifted tens of millions of Brazilians from poverty.
He also was key in the 2009 winning bid by Rio de Janeiro to host South America’s first Olympics, which start next Friday.
Little Lula, Little Lula
With freckles on your chin
Always in and out of trouble but mostly always in
popularity thanks to social programs that lifted tens of millions of Brazilians from poverty.”
That remains to be seen. They will pay for his largesse for years.
ANother commie bites the dust...
Always good to see.