
Brazil's president-elect, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, appointed 16 ministers on Thursday, tapping two members of his party who oversaw states in Brazil's northeast to oversee the country's education and welfare systems.
Lula is set to take office in a little over a week and still has roughly a dozen nominations to make. But he tapped longtime members of his Workers' Party to head two of his administration's most important positions.