In Brazil, former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has reportedly accepted a ministerial role in the government of President Dilma Rousseff. Taking the post will grant Lula a degree of legal protection from what he says are politically motivated charges of money laundering. State prosecutors filed for Lula’s arrest last week. Over the weekend, more than a million people took to the streets to protest Dilma Rousseff’s government amid a corruption scandal and economic crisis.