For more than 30 years Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has been the standard-bearer of the Brazilian left, forged as a strike leader during the country’s dictatorship and three times elected president of what became Latin America’s largest democracy.
But a health scare has forced supporters of the 79-year-old to consider what might come after the end of his political career, which has taken a shoeshine boy born in rural poverty to the role of global statesman.
Lula, as he is universally known, was rushed from Brasília by plane on Monday night to São Paulo for emergency surgery, after an MRI scan revealed a brain bleed caused by a fall at his home in October.
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