The new "Patria Grande" leader Lula
He is prepared to lead the Patria Grande, Chávez's political allegory that unites the political figures who represent the leftist, revolutionary, and populist currents in Latin America.
They all lavishly celebrated the Brazilian president's return to global prominence yesterday, which comes at the peak of the second pink wave, two decades after the first one that Lula himself participated in with El Comandante Chávez and Nestor Kirchner.