View the special newsletter for Brazil Elections in 2010. Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's election victory was the end of an unprecedented journey - from abject poverty to the presidency of Brazil. The convincing victory for the Workers' Party by Lula (as he is known in Brazil) - at the fourth attempt - put a left-wing government in power in Brazil for the first time in more than 40 years. In the 1980s, Lula brought together a combination of trade unionists, intellectuals, Trotskyites and church activists to found the Workers' Party, the first major socialist party in the country's history. Since...