Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

President Luis Inácio Lula da Silva who worked closely with successive South African Presidents Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma on diplomatic issues also presided over a sharp boost in Brazil’s trade with and investment in Africa...

When he first visited the European Union in 2007 four years after coming to office Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva had already travelled six times to Africa covering 16 countries...

Mbeki enthuses about his Brazilian counterpart Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's welfarist policies (except perhaps Brasilia's rapid and broad-based distribution of anti-retroviral drugs) and equally about the tempo of state investment in China and India...

The Brazilian government under President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is keener on African issues...

Something similar is happening in Latin America especially in Brazil which vies with South Africa among the world's most unequal societies and where President Luís Inácio Lula da Silva's government faces land-grabs by a strong Sem Terra (Landless) movement...