New year’s resolutions are always hard to keep, even the simple ones that most people make like losing weight. Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva began his second four year term promising policies to close the growing gap between rich and poor.

“We will remove obstacles so that Brazil can grow in an accelerated way,” Silva said. “Brazil can’t continue to be prisoner held in a web of invisible steel, debating and agitating, without seeing the fabric that holds it back.”

The irony? Lula arrived at his swearing in ceremony in a Rolls Royce.

Via / ABC News
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