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	Silva, Luis Inacio Lula da - MSN Encarta
		Luis Inacio Lula da Silva, born in 1945, widely known as Lula, Brazilian labor leader who was elected president of Brazil in 2002 and again in 2006.
		Da Silva was born one of eight children of a peasant family in Garanhuns, Pernambuco.
		Da Silva was elected president of the union in 1975 and gained national prominence in 1978 and 1979 when, under his leadership, the union confronted the automobile industry and the military government in a series of strikes.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_762511172/Silva_Luis_Inacio_Lula_da.html (872 words)

	Interfax: Brazil welcomes Russia’s plans to join the construction of the Venezuela-Brazil-Argentina gas pipeline
		Da Silva said that, "the agenda of the summit includes the issues of energy security, education and the fight against infectious diseases, where Brazilian experience could be useful."
		Da Silva stressed the scientific and symbolic significance of Brazilian astronaut Marcus Pontis' flight to the International Space Station aboard a Russian Soyuz space ship.
		Da Silva said Brazil "has always supported initiatives on disarmament and nonproliferation" and called for regular joint efforts for disarmament and nonproliferation in the face of new challenges.
	www.interfax.com /17/174744/Interview.aspx (875 words)

	Luís Inácio Lula da Silva : Luis Inacio da Silva (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-25)
		Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (born 1946) is a leftist Brazilian politician who in 2002 was elected President of Brazil[?]; he took office on January 1, 2003.
		Luiz da Silva's birth name did not contain the name "Lula", which was originally just his nickname.
		da Silva was born in a small village in the impoverished Brazilian state of Pernambuco, but grew up in Sao Paulo state, where jobs were more readily available.
	www.eurofreehost.com /lu/Luis_Inacio_da_Silva.html (353 words)

	Stop the FTAA - Rogues’ Gallery: False Opposition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-25)
		Lula’s line is that the Mercosur countries must accelerate their integration as a sub-region to avoid being swallowed up by the much larger FTAA.
		Lula knows this too, of course; he and his top administration officials hobnob regularly with the CFR crowd at globalist conclaves.
		In fact, Lula himself was the main speaker at a special "Meeting With President Lula" sponsored by the CFR in New York on September 25, 2003.
	www.stoptheftaa.org /opposition/luladasilva.html (515 words)

	Lula Watch
		Lula da Silva’s victory is being presented, especially outside of Brazil, as if the Brazilian public had subscribed en masse to leftist ideology.
		Lula da Silva did not reflect support for a leftist ideology and that the majority of Brazilians remain as conservative as ever.
		Luis Inácio Lula da Silva’s inauguration and the first days of his administration have begun to reveal the true ideological colors of the new government.
	www.tfp.org /lulawatch/jan03/vol1/vol1.html (614 words)

	Workers' Party (Brazil) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, is one of its founders, and the most famous member of the party at the present time.
		The culmination point was the victory of its President candidate Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in 2002, succeeding President Fernando Henrique Cardoso of PSDB.
		José Dirceu, Lula da Silva's chief of staff, was forced to resign and return to the Chamber of Deputies.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Workers'_Party_(Brazil) (840 words)

	Institut für Brasilienkunde
		Das sind Herausforderungen, die sich zum Teil nur schwer erklären lassen, Herausforderungen in einem riesigen Land, das fast ein Kontinent ist, in dem jede Region ihre eigenen, einzigartigen Kulturen und Welten aufweist.
		Der brasilianische Präsident Luis Inácio Lula da Silva und sein mexikanischer Kollege Felipe Calderón treffen in Mexiko-Stadt zusammen.
		Das Dokument ist sogar nach der Übergabe an den Papst nochmals an mehr als 200 Stellen verändert worden, wobei ganze Passagen gestrichen und andere eingesetzt wurden.
	www.brasilienkunde.de /4656.html?sessionidkey=sessionidval (2844 words)

	Luís Inácio Lula da Silva : Luis Inacio da Silva (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-25)
		In 1989, da Silva was the PT presidential candidate.
		Da Silva has continued to run for the office of President in every election.
		In the second round of the election, October 27, 2002, da Silva defeated Jose Serra of the Partido da Social Democracia Brasileira[?] (PSDB) (Brazilian Social Democracy Party) to become the president-elect of Brazil.
	www.explainthis.info /lu/luis-inacio-da-silva.html (755 words)

	Brazilians Usher in Peaceful Revolution
		Brazil's new president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, waves to supporters before arriving at Congress to be sworn in to office, in the capital Brasilia, January 1, 2003.
		Lula, son of a poor family in the northeast that went on to become a powerful union leader, is the first working class president of Latin America's largest country.
		Lula, a former lathe worker and union militant, will be the country's first working class president, heading the first leftwing government since before the 1964-85 military dictatorship.
	www.commondreams.org /headlines03/0101-06.htm (885 words)

	[www-it] TO DO [en->it] da Globalresearch: Lula
		While Lula is moving forward full throttle to change the country?s social policies, he is already confronting serious economic problems that could undermine and even destroy his government.
		Lula enjoys the full support of the more progressive sectors of the Workers Party for one major financial reform he is proposing-- a restructuring of the country?s tax system.
		Lula is calling for a progressive income tax that would shif= t the burden away from the poor.
	lists.indymedia.org /mailman/public/www-it/2003-March/001564.html (1143 words)

	Mass unrest inspires Lula's victory in Brazil
		Lula’s victory is seen throughout Latin America as a huge advance for the Left, given the fact that Brazil, with 170 million people and by far the biggest economy south of the U.S., has never had an avowed “socialist” in power.
		Thus you have the new Lula: we accept the demands placed on us by the IMF (whose current scheme for Brazil extends to 2005, the third of Lula’s four years), yet we reject the notion that a more just distribution of wealth is not possible.
		Lula proposes to immediately form a new “Secretariat of Social Emergency” to lead the effort to end hunger, but 95% of the budget for 2003 is already decided.
	www.newsandletters.org /Issues/2002/December/Lead_Dec02.htm (2004 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Eusebio Ferreira da Silva
		Eusebio, Ferreira da Silva (1943- ), Mozambique-born Portuguese footballer, one of the outstanding players of the 1966 World Cup held in England.
		Silva, Benedita da (1943-), Afro-Brazilian politician, social activist, and the first woman from the favelas (shantytown) to become a major...
		Leonidas da Silva (1913-2004), Brazilian footballer, regarded by some as the equal of Pelé.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Eusebio_Ferreira_da_Silva.html (107 words)

	Brazil: Lula's first 100 days--austerity for the poor, tax cuts for the rich
		Lula’s arguments about tax cuts and growth notwithstanding, his government’s policies are designed to protect the interests of international creditors.
		A so-called “zero hunger”; initiative was described by Lula as a way of making it possible for all Brazilians to “eat breakfast, lunch and dinner.” The plan would hand out vouchers to indigent families, worth between $16 and $80 a month (for a family of five).
		Lula has sought to portray himself to the public as a pragmatist who will make capitalism work for the average Brazilian, if he is given a chance.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2003/apr2003/braz-a22.shtml (998 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| International \| Lula's woes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-25)
		Brazilian President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva declared three days of mourning for de Mello to honour a man whom he described as being more than just a national hero.
		Lula's stated purpose is to achieve "zero hunger" in Brazil by the end of his mandate.
		According to Gercino Jose da Silva, Lula's agricultural ombudsman, the government will settle 60,000 families on land of their own by the end of the year.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2003/653/in5.htm (1124 words)

	A Review of the first year of the Lula government in Brazil
		The social consensus that Lula boasts of means, in practice, that he and the PT ministers use their authority among the masses while the right wing determines the political direction that has to be followed.
		Lula wants to appear as a rebellious international leader, the creator of a new, more just, commercial arrangement, but what is certain is that on all the basic questions he accepts the rules of the game of imperialism.
		Fight against Lula's policies inside the PT According to what we have been able to read in the Brazilian press the leadership of the PT is planning to call a National Meeting of the party with the aim of ensuring that the party speaks with one voice to those who are outside the party.
	www.marxist.com /Latinam/brazil_one_year_lula.html (3903 words)

	Brazil's New Prez Promises To Build Nuclear Weapons Lula da Silva Revives Cold War Fears In Washington (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-25)
		da Silva, a left-wing populist who campaigned on promises to improve conditions for the country's vast population of poor, promised military leaders he will forego Brazil's adherence to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and refocus efforts on building up nuclear weapons.
		da Silva, a former union leader and Communist, is close to both Cuban dictator Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez, the firebrand president of Venezuela.
		da Silva has promised to adhere to the strict budgetary restrictions imposed by the IMF as a condition of the US$30-billion bailout.
	www.rense.com /general31/braz.htm (779 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Americas \| Lula: Fourth time lucky
		Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's election victory is the end of an unprecedented journey - from abject poverty to the presidency of Brazil.
		Lula was not initially interested in politics, but threw himself into trade union activism after his first wife died of hepatitis in 1969.
		In 1980 Lula brought together a combination of trade unionists, intellectuals, Trotskyites and church activists to found the Workers' Party (PT), the first major socialist party in the country's history.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/americas/2367851.stm (461 words)

	Brésil - LatinReporters.com
		Icône des pauvres, Lula a acculé son adversaire, le social-démocrate Geraldo Alckmin, lui prêtant l'intention de privatiser et de réduire les avantages sociaux.
		Il a manqué à Luiz Inázio da Silva, le tourneur qu'habille aujourd'hui sur mesure le meilleur couturier du Brésil, ce pourcentage de votes déterminant et définitif qu'à remporté le secteur de gauche de l'électorat brésilien.
		Le président du Brésil, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (48,6% des voix), icône de la gauche latino-américaine, devra donc affronter au second tour, le 29 octobre, le social-démocrate Geraldo Alckmin (41,6%).
	www.latinreporters.com /bresil.html (1652 words)

	New Statesman: US fears a new "axis of evil" - Brazil - Luis Inacio Lula da Silva economic policy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-25)
		He may be the leader of the Workers' Party and a former union leader, but Luis Inacio Lula da Silva (Lula), who is almost certain to become the next president of Brazil, has his business supporters, too.
		Lula is a three-time loser and many thought his party had blundered by insisting on him as its candidate again.
		Lula's victory would be the most important for the left in Latin America since the election of Salvador Allende in Chile in the Seventies.
	findarticles.com /cf_dls/m0FQP/4609_131/93657572/p1/article.jhtml (745 words)

	NPR: Search Results
		da Silva is scoring points with the military and with conservative members of his governing coalition.
		Da Silva is heading to China with a delegation of 300 Brazilian businessmen.
		da Silva is taking a pounding in the local press for his decision to expel a New...
	www.npr.org /search.php?text=lula (774 words)

	Pravda.RU Brazil: Reactionaries wrongly frightened by spectre of Lula (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-25)
		In the words of Lula, in the last internal party congress, “We are going to avoid a situation whereby the foreign debt increases, destroying the confidence in the capacity of the government to honour its promises”.
		Lula has signed a political agreement with the Conservative Liberal Front Party, whose candidate Jose Alencar will be Lula’s Vice-President, bringing with him a notion of trust and confidence among Brazil’s entrepreneurial class, which he represents.
		Luis Inacio Lula da Silva, (Lula) the candidate of the Partido dos Trabalhadores (Labour) for the forthcoming Presidential election in October, is leading the opinion polls with some 40% of the vote, against the 20% obtained by the government’s candidate, Jose Serra, of the Brazilian Social Democratic Party (PSDB), of President Fernando Henrique Cardoso.
	english.pravda.ru /politics/2002/06/26/31139.html (2077 words)

	AEGiS-AP: Brazil Pres Launches AIDS Initiative With Mozambique
		Lula said Brazil has reduced its AIDS mortality rate by 50% since starting to make it's own HIV medicine and reiterated his pledge to build a factory in Mozambique to produce the anti-retroviral drugs.
		In the meantime, Lula presented the Health Ministry with medicine to treat 100 AIDS suffers at the ceremony attended by his Mozambican counterpart Joaquim Chissano.
		Lula's trip has also included stops in Angola and Sao Tome and Principe, which like Mozambique are fellow members of the Portuguese-speaking commonwealth.
	www.aegis.com /news/ap/2003/AP031108.html (447 words)

	NotiSur - Latin American Political Affairs; August 25, 1995
		Lula, who was defeated in the October 1994 presidential elections by Fernando Henrique Cardoso, announced his resignation at the PT's tenth national convention in Guarapari, in the state of Espirito Santo.
		Lula was replaced by Sao Paulo moderate Jose Dirceu de Oliveira e Silva, a former deputy and former general secretary of the party.
		Lula was elected to parliament in 1986, receiving the largest number of votes in the country.
	ssdc.ucsd.edu /news/notisur/h95/notisur.19950825.html (4080 words)

	Presidency of the Federative Republic of Brazil (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-25)
		Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was born on 27 October 1945, in the small town of Garanhuns, in the inner state of Pernambuco.
		Lula is the seventh of eight children of Aristides Inácio da Silva and Eurídice Ferreira de Mello.
		Lula led the process of organizing the party and, in that year, ran for the Government of the state of São Paulo.
	www.presidencia.gov.br /ingles/president (856 words)

	Lula's Brazil - Global Policy Forum - Social and Economic Policy
		As Luis Inacio Lula da Silva enters his third month as president of Brazil he enjoys popular approval ratings approaching eighty percent.
		Senator Heloisa Helena from Alagoas, an impoverished state in northeastern Brazil declares, "the policies of the economic advisors will not work." The leadership of the party tried to discipline her, but it was forced to back off when many others in the party supported her statements and her right to speak out.
		Lula is calling for a progressive income tax that would shift the burden away from the poor.
	www.globalpolicy.org /socecon/develop/2003/0310lula.htm (947 words)

	Brazil sees market economy in China
		Silva is on a five-day state visit to Beijing and Shanghai aimed at boosting exports to Asia's fastest growing economy.
		Lula said Brazi is confident of the prospects of working with China on political, economic and trade and technological areas.
		Lula said he hoped to enhance bilateral co-operation in agriculture, energy and mineral resources, science and technology, space and information technology, as well as infrastructure construction.
	www.chinadaily.com.cn /english/doc/2004-05/24/content_333379.htm (487 words)

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