Brazil's Lula decides whether to resist arrest
São Bernardo do Campo (Brazil) (AFP) - Ex-president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, a fallen giant of leftwing politics and still frontrunner in Brazil's October presidential elections, was deciding Friday whether to resist an order to surrender and start a 12-year prison sentence for corruption.Holed up with a crowd of fervent supporters at the metalworkers' union building in his hometown Sao Bernardo do Campo, near Sao Paulo, 72-year-old Lula had barely seven hours to comply with the order f
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