People hold an inflatable depicting former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva during a protest against Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff and the Workers' Party (PT) at Paulista Avenue Sao Paulo, Brazil. Nelson Almeida/AFP/Getty Images.
Imagine one of the most admired global political leaders in modern history taken from his apartment at 6 am by armed Brazilian Federal Police agents and forced into an unmarked car to the Sao Paulo airport to be interrogated for almost four hours in connection with a billion dollar corruption scandal involving the giant state oil company Petrobras.
This is the stuff Hollywood is made of. And that was exactly the logic behind the elaborate production.
