Halfway through Lula, Son of Brazil, a newly released film of the Brazilian president, there is a scene in which Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, at this point a budding trade union leader, delivers a speech that brings his audience to its feet and, in effect, launches him on his path to the national presidency.
“Nobody here is an enemy of the bosses,” he thunders in the gravelly, smoker’s voice that has roused so many listeners in recent years. “After all, they’re the ones who pay our salaries.”
