  Brazil's presidential campaign  In Lula's footsteps  Dilma
Rousseff is cruising towards victory on the coat-tails of a
popular president. But there is more at stake in October’s
election than meets the eye  See article  Readers' comments
It is my obligation to post here to defend Lula, you see, I get
paid to defend the government. I am one of the “bolsa família”
recipients, so what I basically do for a living is to get this
huge amount of money (roughly $80 per family per month) then I
go and log into accounts in this magazine, yes, I write
accounts, because obviously everybody defending Lula ou Dilma
are only my alter egos.  And I write obviously because everyone
who votes for Lula and Dilma are poor people, and the poor in
Brazil cannot speak English, they cannot even think, they are
not illuminated like the ones who courageously write here
against this leftist dictator, even though many who oppose the
government have been arrested and even killed. But back to the
poor, so how did it ever come to your