Blog posts tagged "President Lula de Silva"

November 30, 2009 11:00 am 59 Comments

I am standing on a balcony sixteen floors above the Amazon leaning on the railing talking with Brazil’s President Lula. An exceptional life story has taken him from a 12-year-old shoeshine boy, via work at a sheet metal factory where he lost the little finger of his left hand in an industrial accident, to his [...]

November 6, 2009 9:03 am No Comments

Last night I found myself in the ornate circumstance of the Banqueting Hall in Whitehall. I also found myself too in the midst of a tectonic shift in the new world order. For this was an event in which the old world of European kings and queens were making way for a citizen of the [...]