For the last couple of weeks, Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has decided to set his sights on the Central Bank and the country’s 13.75-percent benchmark interest rate. Both are easy targets, as the bank’s chairman, Roberto Campos Neto, was too close for comfort with members of the former government’s cabinet, and the layman believes the financial elite is the sole beneficiary of high interest rates.
While both sides appear to have lifted the banner of peace, tensions will not dissipate completely. After a razor-thin victory in last year’s election and still trying to find a footing while…