Brazil: Lula’s Role Models are Mao, Castro, Adolf Hitler

In an interview with Brazilian Playboy magazine in 1979, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva praised Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, Mao Ze Dong, and Adolf Hitler as his role models. Hitler had “the courage of proposing to do something and trying to do it,“ 

Lula said. Speaking with Argentina’s La Nación in 2002, Lula’s successor as head of the São Paulo Forum Marco Aurélio Garcia said thatLula would have no interest in preserving democracy once he is in power: 

“We have to first give the impression that we are democrats, initially; we have to accept certain things. But that won’t last.” 

In 2002, French Le Monde wrote that Lula “strongly believes that every election is a farce and a mere step to take power,” Epoch Times reports.

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