The booze from Brazil

Sunday Star-Times | May 16, 2004 | Copyright

A PRESIDENT'S lot can be a very happy one. Just ask Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, head honcho of Brazil. According to the New York Times, his liking for a tipple, be it beer, whisky or the fiendish cachaca so beloved of Brazilians, is affecting his running of the country.

The Times' reports of his imbibing have led to demands that its Brazilian correspondent Larry Rother have his visa withdrawn. Government officials have spoken of "infamy" and "calumny and defamation". Da Silva, apparently, just rips the top off another one. Rother quoted Leonel Brizola, da Silva's former running mate and now ...

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