Lula has the advantage of being 77 years old. An age that will hurt almost anything else, at least it will give you the advantage of experience for your third term. The advantage can also be decisive if you use it wisely.

Because thanks to her 77 years, most of her environment, and almost all of us who are not Brazilians, she won't have to read history books (besides, she won't be a reader, it costs someone who didn't have another school in her childhood) to remember what happened 60 years ago, 1963-64, and get her studies.

The 1964 coup d'état of Lula and the civic and military rebellion telecuzzada before her, in full compliance with twenty years, almost captured him. As at that time he was a concerned and wrestling worker, he did not escape the area he was in and how he would live that hard time. So João Goulart, Jango, will know perfectly who he was and what happened to him, without us telling him. And he will surely also remember Leonel Brizola and the rest. So you realize what you do. And that's a considerable advantage.

It seems that history could be in the process of repetition, seeing the astrapalada of January 8. With similar motives, protagonists and planning. Not to say exactly the same.

And that very strict parallelism forces others to (re-learn) dismiss Goulart and draw the coup d’état to the 21 year military dictatorship, the most perverse that Latin America suffered in the second half of the twentieth century, yes, the most perverse from many points of view. And, incidentally, strictly monitoring what was then and can be the main driving force: American promotion.

So far, something similar to academic analysis has been the huge role played by Democratic administrations United States, Kennedy and Johnson in promoting the coup d'état from 64, from start to finish. An example of many descendants. Perhaps some still find it difficult to combine Ambassador Gordon's "clothing" with his sad behavior.

But now Lula is aware – and we are the others – and we cannot deceive ourselves at least. Among other things, when accounting for the price of "independent foreign policy", which has always been preferred by Brazil, not only by Lula. And we can't think that Elizabeth F. Bagley, A. Blink's secretary, sitting in Dean Ruske's chair, is going to work in Brazil on friendship and democracy.