PRIDE AND FALL: Brazil’s Lula Investigated by Electoral Court After Blatantly Illegal Tribute in Rio’s Carnival – His Statue Collapses, Is Dragged and Goes Viral (VIDEOS)

Many see the fall of his float statue as a precursor of Lula’s fall.

Lula may have finally gone too far even for his allies in the upper courts.

By now, no one is surprised by Brazilian socialist President Lula da Silva’s shameless self-aggrandizing, as by his use of illegal tactics to try to win yet another election in November.

But when a third-rate Samba school paraded in the Sambadrome with a ‘tribute’ lionizing him, and he had the gall of showing up to get all those photo-ops for a campaign that hadn’t even started...