16-03-2016 18:43 via news.yahoo.com

Brazil's Lula takes Cabinet post in bid to save Rousseff

By Lisandra Paraguassu and Patricia Duarte BRASILIA/SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will take over as chief of staff for his successor Dilma Rousseff in a bid to save her from impeachment, raising the prospect of a shift away from austerity to revive a moribund economy. The move, announced after a Wednesday meeting of Rousseff's closest advisors, offers Lula protection from prosecutors who charged him with money laundering. The government hopes that the
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