Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Thursday issued his latest threat to the autonomy of the country's central bank a day after it floated the possibility of keeping interest rates at a six-year high for a longer-than-expected period.
Lula, who had previously described central bank independence as "nonsense," said he could review its autonomy by the end of the term of the current central bank governor, Roberto Campos Neto.
