Brazil`s Lula Launches Presidential Bid From Prison
(World News Brazil)

As thousands of his supporters rallied in Brazil´s capital city on Wednesday, former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva officially registered his candidacy for October´s presidential election from behind bars, The Guardian reported. Official campaigning in Brazil´s most unpredictable election in decades begins on Friday with almost half the electorate still undecided. Lula leads in the polls, but he is serving a 12-year prison sentence for corruption and money laundering, which electoral judges have said makes him ineligible under a `clean slate` law. `If Lula is not a candidate - and I think there is a 90 percent chance he won´t be - that turns the election upside down,` said David...