Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has been inaugurated for a third term as Brazil’s president, in a ceremony snubbed by outgoing leader Jair Bolsonaro. In a sign of the scars that remain from Lula’s brutal election showdown with ex-army captain Bolsonaro in October, security was exceptionally tight at the pomp-filled ceremony in Brasilia.

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