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Reuters
Reuters
Business
By Anthony Boadle and Gabriel Stargardter

Lula takes over in Brazil, slams Bolsonaro's anti-democratic threats

Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and his wife Rosangela "Janja" da Silva gesture at the Planalto Palace, in Brasilia, Brazil, January 1, 2023. REUTERS/Adriano Machado

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was sworn in as Brazil's president on Sunday, delivering a searing indictment of far-right former leader Jair Bolsonaro and vowing a drastic change of course to rescue a nation plagued by hunger, poverty and racism.

In a speech to Congress after officially taking the reins of Latin America's biggest country, the leftist said democracy was the true winner of the October presidential vote, when he ousted Bolsonaro in the most fraught election for a generation.

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