Brazil Is Once Again Lula’s Political Prisoner

(Bloomberg Opinion) -- When he walked out of jail in Curitiba in southern Brazil after 580 days, former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was not an entirely free man. He is merely the highest-profile beneficiary of the Nov. 7 Supreme Court decision to allow convicted criminals to remain at liberty until they exhaust all possible appeals.Yet for loyalists of the practically beatified political leader, apparition is absolution. “Lula Livre!” — Lula in liber