President sworn in for second term
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Brazil’s first working-class president was sworn in to a second term, renewing his pledges to boost the nation’s lackluster economy and ease the deep divide between a rich elite and millions living in misery.
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva took the oath of office in Brasilia after riding to the ceremony in a classic Rolls-Royce convertible, according to inaugural protocol, but insisted he had not lost sight of his roots as the son of a dirt-poor farmer from Brazil’s impoverished northeast.
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