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By Gabriel Elizondo in Americas on September 29th, 2010
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President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva won’t be on the ballot on Sunday when 136 million Brazilians cast a vote for president, but his famous Lula name will be – it just won’t be the president himself.

Meet Luiz da Silva. Not the president. But the candidate for the federal deputy from Lula’s Workers Party.

Not only is his name almost identical to that of the Brazilian president, but he even has the same thick beard and portly stature. His deep, scratchy voice is almost identical too. And he is even missing part of a finger just like President Lula da Silva.

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Luiz 'Lula' da Silva, candidate for congress, and the man who looks a lot like the popular Brazilian president. Photo: Tatiana Polastri/Al Jazeera.

By Gabriel Elizondo in Americas on August 28th, 2010

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A campaign poster in Brasilia shows how strongly Dilma Rousseff is linking her campaign with the legacy of Pres. Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. Photo: Maria Elena Romero/Al Jazeera.

 

Brazil is leaning heavily towards electing the country's first female president.

Dilma Rousseff has never been elected to public office, but the polls indicate her first such position could be the most important one in Brazil: President. Mrs President.

By Gabriel Elizondo in Americas on February 6th, 2010
Photo by EPA

On the first Sunday in October Brazilians will go to the polls to decide who will get the task of trying to replace Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva as the next president of South America's largest and most influential country.

By Zeina Khodr in Europe on December 15th, 2009

"Long live Abdullah Ocalan" - something I heard time and time ago during the two days I spent in Diyarbakir.

Many Kurds say the Turkish constitutional court's decision to ban the pro-Kurdish party - the DTP - has only made the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) stronger.

They now believe Prime Minister Tayeb Erdogan - the man who promised more rights for Kurds - wasn’t serious and his aim had more to do with regaining popularity lost to the DTP in the southeast

There is a growing sense of frustration and disillusionment in the Kurdish heartland - but at the same time anger.

Saban Karakas, resident in the city, told me that the Kurdish question cannot be solved without a fight.

Many lost faith in the democratic process.

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