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Mon 11 Nov 2009Comedian impersonating Brazilian president gives radio interviews
WHEN BRAZIL’S notoriously interview-shy president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, offered journalists from Angolan state radio an exclusive telephone chat, they should probably have smelled a rat.
When Mr Lula appeared on air claiming to be speaking live and direct from one of Rio’s most notorious slums, they might also have wondered what was going on.
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