Brazil’s leader quietly takes the lead in Latin America

By Simon Romero and Alexei Barrionuevo / The Bulletin
July 7, 2008

CARACAS, Venezuela — President Hugo Chavez, of Venezuela, and President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, of Brazil, clasped hands here at a summit meeting late last month, as employees of Venezuela’s state oil company raised their fists and shouted Cuban-inspired socialist slogans....

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