SÃO BERNARDO DO CAMPO, Brazil: Brazil’s left-wing leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva returned to his trade union stronghold on Saturday (Sunday in Manila), delivering a fiery speech to throngs of celebrating supporters a day after walking free from jail.

Reveling in the adoration of his followers at the metalworkers’ union he once led, Lula attacked his arch-nemesis President Jair Bolsonaro, who hours earlier had called him a “scoundrel,” and those who jailed him last year for corruption.

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