Gary Coronado

1. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has tapped into Brazilians’ longing for the more prosperous days of his presidency, when the country rose from the world’s 13th to the seventh-largest economy.

1. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, center, former president of Brazil and a current candidate for the office, at a campaign rally in Nova Iguacu, Brazil.

1. People attend a rally for presidential candidate and former president of Brazil, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

1. A Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva supporter becomes emotional. Brazil, like much of the rest of the world, is trying to climb out of the economic crater left by the COVID-19 pandemic while battling inflation and rising fuel costs.

1. Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, 67, used Brazil’s Independence Day Celebration to rally voters.

1. Supporters wearing Brazilian flag colors and waving the national flag attend the Independence Day celebration in Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro, on Sept. 7, 2022.

1. A boy and supporters cheer during a rally for Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro during Brazil’s Independence Day Celebration in Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro.

1. Brazilian military paratroopers land on the beach for Brazil’s Independence Day Celebration.

1. Supporters of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro line the street after Brazil’s Independence Day Celebration.

1. A woman with a presidential campaign poster of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, blows kisses to angry supporters of opposition Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro from a window in the Copacabana neighborhood.

A supporter of the Brazilian president yells at a woman who has a campaign poster of opposition presidential candidate Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, hanging in her window in the Copacabana neighborhood. Read the story at https://lat.ms/3QRA86S