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Brazil's central bank on Wednesday hiked its key interest rate to 13.25 percent in more bad news for leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's …
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Brazil: Lula asks new Brazilian mayors for a relationship “without ideologies”
Brazil - February 11, 2025 Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva inaugurated on Tuesday an event that brings together all the mayors of the country, to whom he asked to establish a relationship “without ideologies” and promote the development of all cities “without partisan signs”. (Camera: Alex Mirkhan.) FOOTAGE AND STATEMENTS BY LUIZ INÁCIO LULA DA SILVA, PRESIDENT OF BRAZIL. 1. “I returned to govern this country with the exclusive responsibility of demonstrating once again that this country tends to be a highly developed country. But it will only be solved if the city is developed. There is no rich state with a poor city, and no rich city with a poor state”. 2. “This is what I promise you: under no circumstances will the Banco do Brazil, the Caixa Econômica Federal, the BRB, the BASA or the BNDES (public banks) stop serving the interests of a governor, of a city, because of ideological issues. And we know that this has always happened in Brazil, we know how the opposition was treated in this country and not so long ago.” [Restrictions: Spain, Latin America, or the U.S. Hispanic market]