Lula and his party not only stood for social reform but claimed, from their experience in local administration, a monopoly on clean government in Brazil.
Backed by Syria, Egypt, Vietnam and South Africa, China has said it wants to "globalize" the internet's administration, giving control to a monopoly of nations.
Such pay-for-delay deals arise when generic companies file a challenge at the Food and Drug Administration to the patents that give brand-name drugs a 20-year monopoly.
Ken Lay was the only energy executive to meet privately with Vice President Dick Cheney to help shape the administration's new energy policy -- which included a recommendation to break up monopoly control of electricity transmission networks, a longtime Enron goal.