SÃO PAULO—Brazil’s former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said he will comply with an order for his arrest in a fiery speech Saturday, two days after a judge demanded he begin a 12-year jail term for corruption.
The leftist icon, who had been considered a front-runner in the country’s presidential elections in October, missed a 5 p.m. deadline Friday to turn himself in, hunkering down in a metalworkers’ union hall.
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