Lula expresses his opposition with nostalgia for anti-privatization.

In addition to the old Comperge complex, Rio de Janeiro’s petrochemical complex, Lula is directing investments from Petrobras to the Abreu e Lima refinery in Pernambuco. Corruption in the two projects, which were blocked in 2015, has caused losses of US$27 billion, according to the Federal Audit Court.

After returning to Planalto with a broad front that included defending democracy, Lula witnessed the conviction in May of last year of Fernando Collor—to eight years and ten months in prison—for embezzling some R$20 million from the coffers of the PR Distribuidora company. Something that had begun in 2010, under Lula, was completed by 2014, under Dilma.

It’s a pity that Lola doesn’t develop the habit of reading. I could step down from the moon world for a moment to enjoy a story written by Ernest Hemingway. It’s called “The Snows of Kilimanjaro,” a snow-capped mountain, 6,000 meters above sea level.

“Its western peak is called Ngàge Ngài, the House of God,” Hemingway wrote. “Next to this peak is the carcass of a tiger. No one has yet been able to explain what the tiger was searching for at that height.”

The tiger in the story is a metaphor for many things. It can symbolize the romantic search for the unattainable. Or the adventurous spirit taken to extreme recklessness. By comparison, Lula is in a similar position to the cheetah, the presidency being the pinnacle of politics.

At a time when Brazil is on fire, Lula must ask himself: Why did he reach the highest point of executive power for the third time? Otherwise, in the future, when archaeologists go to excavate this piece of history, they will find, under the ashes of a remote region of Brazil, the body of a president as inexplicable as Hemingway’s tiger.