{"id":106142,"date":"2026-02-19T10:15:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T10:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/19\/giant-robot-tribute-to-brazils-lula-leads-start-of-rio-carnival\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T10:15:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T10:15:13","slug":"giant-robot-tribute-to-brazils-lula-leads-start-of-rio-carnival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/19\/giant-robot-tribute-to-brazils-lula-leads-start-of-rio-carnival\/","title":{"rendered":"Giant robot tribute to Brazil&#8217;s Lula leads start of Rio Carnival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">A tribute to Brazil&#8217;s President Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva which marked the first day of the parade, came in last place at Rio de Janeiro&#8217;s annual carnival competition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The samba school Acad\u00eamicos de Nit\u00e9roi traced Lula&#8217;s life as a boy growing up in poverty in the Brazilian northeast, to a metalworker, union leader and then president, showcasing giant figures to honour him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The parade has drawn criticism from the opposition because Brazil&#8217;s next presidential election will take place in October. Critics argue the tribute can be seen as early electioneering and a possible violation of campaign rules ahead of the election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Samba school Unidos do Viradouro took the crown for its tribute to its legendary drum director.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\"><i id=\"video-edited-by-marina-costa\" class=\"sc-d16436d-0 iVdNuz\">Video edited by Marina Costa<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/videos\/cgjz234pj3lo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A tribute to Brazil&#8217;s President Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva which marked the first day of the parade, came in last place at Rio de<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":106143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}