S ince leaving hospital in December, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, known as Lula (pictured), has cut a smart figure. Brazil’s ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (JTA) — A major rift between Brazil and Israel has opened up after Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, likened Israel’s war in Gaza to the Holocaust.

Anielle Franco, the Minister for Racial Equality in President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva ’s government, was present at the festivities. “I woke up in Rio de Janeiro accompanying the ...