Brazil · Politics

Key Facts

—The thaw Lula and Senate President Davi Alcolumbre resumed direct contact in early August after more than three months of estrangement.

—The dinner They met on August 4 at Justice Alexandre de Moraes’s home in Brasília, in a three-hour meeting brokered by lawyer Cristiano Zanin.

—A follow-up A second meeting followed on August 12 at the Palácio da Alvorada, with the government calling relations ‘reconstructed’.