With President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva out of commission ... wanted when he received a last-minute call to step in for his boss, who’s in intensive care following an emergency brain surgery.

Lula is old. He is irritable ... With just 24 per cent now approving of the job he is doing, the old union boss has never been as unpopular at any other time during his three terms in office.

(Bloomberg) -- Claudia Sheinbaum’s efforts to blunt Donald Trump’s relentless targeting of Mexico are winning admirers in Brazil, inspiring one of her allies to consider mimicking her approach ...