For every rule there is an exception.
For the countless corrupt politicians there is the rare honest and principled one.
In America it's Sanders. In Britain it's Corbyn.
In Brazil it's Lula.

Brazil’s former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has rejected prosecutors’ request that he leave prison for house arrest, setting up a potential clash with judges over his sentence for corruption and money-laundering.

“I won’t swap my dignity for my freedom,” Lula said in a hand-written letter posted on his Twitter account. He added that prosecutors should apologize to the Brazilian people and his family “for the evil they’ve done to democracy, to Justice, and to the country.”
... Lula was convicted by Sergio Moro, the former lead judge in the Carwash corruption investigation, who is now President Jair Bolsonaro‘s justice minister.

Unfortunately, Lula is no longer president in Brazil (although he could still win his appeal).
Instead a much, much lesser man is president, and guess who he takes orders from.

Brazil is trying Wall Street’s patience.

Last Wednesday, the Senate was scheduled to vote on a much touted, and much needed, pension reform bill. Then it was postponed to Thursday. It didn’t happen on Friday. It is now supposed to go up for a vote on Tuesday, Senate leaders said.
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The only hint to foreign investors of what a Bolsonaro economic policy would look like was in his hiring of Paulo Guedes, founder of investment bank BTG Pactual and now the Economic Minister.

Guedes is a “privatize everything”, small government hawk. Pension and tax reform are his two kills.

Guedes is a University of Chicago alumni, the kind that trigger the Latin American left into cold sweats. They have protested the pension bill, but have failed to stop it.

Should Bolsonaro fail on this one, Guedes is a goner.

Brazil has already exceeded it's full-year target of $20 billion in privatizations.
Lula has an opinion about this government.

"As long as there is a president who does not respect himself, who does not respect his sovereignty and who continues sucking up to the Americans, as Fernando Henrique Cardoso did with Clinton and as Bolsonaro does with Trump, the country will not progress."