Between this, BNDES (Development Bank) and Bacen (Central Bank, its "Fed"), it seems like Brazil's public service is a Julia hotspot.
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The Brazilian academics favors open source over commercial software (the most well ranked universities in the country are free, and many student cant't afford to pay license fee).
So it doesn't come as surprise egresees uses Julia, R over the paid counterpart.
Not really. julia is niche at the best in Brazil. Python largely dominates the scene
Brazilian institutions used to love FORTRAN and Matlab. Maybe Julia was more familiar to their teams somehow.
Did Lua ever have a corresponding long march through the institutions?
I don't think so. For example: Lua was supposed to be the official language for interactive broadcast TV apps in the early 2000s, but it lost to Java due to IT consulting firms pressure.