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	Scandal threatens Lula da Silva presidency - World - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The scam was supposedly masterminded by Federal Deputy Roberto Jefferson, head of the left-wing Labor Party and a close ally of the leftist Lula da Silva administration.
		Lula da Silva's ruling Workers' Party (PT) were incensed by the charges and have been trying to thwart a federal investigation approved by lawmakers on both sides of the aisle.
		Lula da Silva hopes to pass tax and social security reform before preparing for next year's re-election campaign.
	www.washtimes.com /world/20050611-104857-7693r.htm (508 words)

	FT.com / In depth - Interview transcript: Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
		LULA DA SILVA: I am a good friend of Chávez and the relation that Chávez has with Brazil is a good relation, ever since the time of president Fernando Henrique Cardoso, because Chávez has been in government for almost eight years.
		LULA DA SILVA: Look, first of all, I don’t know what is in [the PT government programme] yet because this is in a process of debate, I don’t know what’s in it yet.
		LULA DA SILVA: But all around the world the courts are flexible, in the whole world you have the argument in favour and against, otherwise you wouldn’t need [courts].
	www.ft.com /cms/s/6d42ae3a-110b-11db-9a72-0000779e2340.html (8611 words)

	Silva Benedita da - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Silva, Benedita da (1943-), Afro-Brazilian politician, social activist, and the first woman from the favelas (shantytown) to become a major...
		Silva, Luiz Inácio Lula da (1945-), Brazilian labour leader, President of Brazil (2003-).
		Popularly known as Lula, Silva was born one of 11...
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Silva_Benedita_da.html (107 words)

	President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
		Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was born on 27 October 1945, in the small town of Garanhuns, State of Pernambuco, in the Northeast of Brazil.
		Lula is the seventh of eight children of Aristides Inácio da Silva and Eurídice Ferreira de Mello.
		Lula´s first job at the age of 12 was in a dry cleaner´s.
	www.brazilembcairo.org /thepresident.html (711 words)

	Brazilian leader a balancing force - World - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Lula da Silva even went after comrades from the early years of the leftist Workers Party, which he had founded to oppose the 1964-85 military regime.
		Lula da Silva has repeatedly denied knowledge of any wrongdoing, but if Brazil's nonpartisan Supreme Electoral Tribunal finds he broke the law in the documents case, he could be removed from office.
		Lula da Silva's change in style did not mean he embraced the politics of the Bush administration in Washington.
	www.washtimes.com /world/20060925-102055-9228r_page2.htm (698 words)

	The World Today - Lula da Silva tipped to win Brazilian Presidential race
		PETER CAVE: In Brazil, the polls are showing President Lula da Silva will easily win a runoff election this month despite a bruising public debate with his main rival, and charges of corruption and dirty tricks.
		Mr Lula has huge support from Brazil's poor, and he appears to have been unscathed by a scandal that forced the head of his Workers' Party, to resign last week.
		VOX POP: The Lula presidency was a huge breakthrough in Brazilian history, but I think they did let down the Brazilian people with this corruption that they all the time were against.
	www.abc.net.au /worldtoday/content/2006/s1764457.htm (738 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)

	EuroNewsEuroNews : PrÃ¤sidentschafts-Stichwahl in Brasilien: Amtsinhaber Lula da Silva haushoher Favorit
		Kurz vor der zweiten Runde der PrÃ¤sidentschaftswahlen in Brasilien baut Amtsinhaber Luiz Ignacio Lula da Silva seinen Vorsprung immer weiter aus.
		Lula da Silva selbst zeigte sich in der Debatte siegesgewiss - und sogar ein wenig herablassend gegenÃ¼ber Alckmin.
		Der Sozialist da Silva liegt in Umfragen bei einem Stimmenanteil von 61 bis 63 Prozent und damit bis zu 26 Prozentpunkte vor Alckmin.
	www.euronews.net /create_html.php?page=detail_info&article=387850&lng=3&option=1 (259 words)

	Lula da Silva debe actuar rapido \| terra
		Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva emergió este lunes vencedor para un segundo mandato presidencial para cuya gestión precisará de acciones decididas que devuelvan credibilidad ética a su gobierno y a su Partido de los Trabajadores (PT), y aceleren el crecimiento económico de Brasil.
		Lula triunfó con más votos de los que había obtenido en su primera elección, en 2002, un hecho destacado a pesar del desgaste natural en el gobierno y de la lluvia de acusaciones que lo cercaron durante el último año y medio.
		Lula prometió continuar con sus programas de transferencia de renta, pero para volverlos sustentables el país tendría que crecer a un ritmo mayor que el 2% de los últimos años.
	www.terra.com /noticias/articulo/html/act632181.htm (834 words)

	Lula Watch Vol. 4 - No. 1
		By the end of the year, Lula claimed the denunciations were lacking in substance and expressed the conviction that the crisis was reaching its end and that political calm would be re-established after the Christmas recess.
		He was the architect of both Lula's electoral victory and the PT's blueprint to dominate the Brazilian political scene for the long term future.
		Lula DA Silva skipped Israel and began with Syria, where, alongside dictator Bashar Assad, he attacked the Jewish State.
	www.tfp.org /lulawatch/v4_feb24/v4_feb24.html (3646 words)

	Lula elected president of Brazil - smh.com.au
		US President George W Bush was among the first foreign leaders to congratulate Lula and raucous street celebrations marked the triumph by the 57-year-old, who rode to victory on widespread discontent over Brazil's social divide.
		Lula -- widely regarded as honest in a country plagued by corruption -- has recently moved closer to the political centre, reached out to the business community, and pledged to aim for a budget surplus while carrying out wide-ranging social reforms.
		Lula was expected to present the team tomorrow, though it was not clear when he would announce his future finance minister and central bank chief.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2002/10/28/1035683355128.html (684 words)

	Luis Inacio Lula da Silva Biography (Political Figure) — Infoplease.com
		Luis Inacio "Lula" da Silva was elected president of Brazil in 2002.
		Da Silva was born into poverty and trained as a metalworker, gradually becoming active in the Metalworker's Union.
		Lula was finally elected in 2002 on a platform of economic and political reform, promising especially to attack hunger in Brazil.
	www.infoplease.com /biography/var/luisinacioluladasilva.html (216 words)

	Silva Luis Inacio Lula da - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Silva Luis Inacio Lula da - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Silva, Luis Inacio Lula da, born in 1945, widely known as Lula, Brazilian labor leader who was elected president of Brazil in 2002 and again in...
		The Workers’ Party candidate Luis Inacio Lula da...
	encarta.msn.com /Silva_Luis_Inacio_Lula_da.html (165 words)

	Hispanic American Center for Economic Research - Scandal threatens Lula da Silva presidency (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The scam was supposedly masterminded by Federal Deputy Roberto Jefferson, head of the left-wing Labor Party and a close ally of the leftist Lula da Silva administration.
		Lula da Silva's ruling Workers' Party (PT) were incensed by the charges and have been trying to thwart a federal investigation approved by lawmakers on both sides of the aisle.
		Lula da Silva hopes to pass tax and social security reform before preparing for next year's re-election campaign.
	www.hacer.org /current/Brazil070.php (470 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)

	BBC NEWS \| Americas \| Profile: Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
		In his victory speech on 29 October, Lula, as the 61-year-old politician is known, promised that his second term would be "better than the first".
		Lula has promised to boost economic growth and reduce inequality to put the country on track to reach the ranks of developed nations.
		The son of a poor, illiterate peasant family, Lula worked as a peanut seller and shoe-shine boy as a child, only learning to read when he was 10 years old.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/americas/5346744.stm (863 words)

	Lula leads the way - Latin America: Chronicle 2002 - Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva New Internationalist - Find Articles
		Given the prevailing international climate Lula is hard pressed to argue for socialism; instead he's deflecting right-wing critics by talking in general terms about a 'progressive' government that will reach out to Brazil's poor and make the kind of changes that will allow them 'to eat three times a day'.
		Lula's nationalist strategy hinges on a pact between business and labour that will boost internal and regional markets, keeping factory production lines humming and unemployment as low as possible.
		Lula's first official trip abroad in December 2002 was to meet with Argentina's Eduardo Duhalde.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0JQP/is_2003_Jan-Feb/ai_97872877 (918 words)

	MiamiHerald.com \| 09/24/2006 \| Lula da Silva's promise (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Shortly after Lula da Silva took office, The Associated Press traveled 1,000 miles from Sao Paulo's urban sprawl to this town just beyond the Mountains of Confusion, one of two places he chose to launch his antipoverty program.
		Analysts predict Lula da Silva could win more than 70 percent of the vote across northeastern Brazil, and his strength is evident along the entire route into Guaribas and throughout the town in campaign signs with his smiling face plastered on houses and businesses.
		Alckmin, the center-left former governor of Sao Paulo state, attacks Lula da Silva over slower economic growth in Brazil than elsewhere in Latin America and a corruption scandal last year that forced members of his inner circle to resign.
	www.miami.com /mld/miamiherald/15585319.htm (1415 words)

	Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		IPA: [lu'iz i'nasju 'lulɐ da 'silvɐ]), born Luiz Inácio da Silva on October 27, 1945, popularly known as Lula, is the 39th and current President of Brazil.
		Lula was elected to the post in 27 October 2002 with 61% of the votes (run-off, and took office on January 1, 2003.
		The minister chosen by Lula was Antônio Palocci, a physician and former trotskyst activist who had recanted his far left views while serving as the mayor of the sugarcane processing industry center of Ribeirão Preto, in the State of São Paulo.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Luiz_In%C3%A1cio_Lula_da_Silva (3049 words)

	National Press Club -- Brazilian President-Elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
		In October, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva -- popularly known as "Lula" -- won the presidential runoff in Brazil.
		Born in 1945, Lula started out as a metal-worker at the age of 14, and studied the craft at night school.
		Lula was elected president of the union twice over the next six years.
	www.npr.org /programs/npc/2002/021210.lula.html (387 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| International \| Lula's woes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		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)

	Bulletin 21 - New Brazilian Government and Nuclear Weapons
		During the presidential campaign, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was invited to meet with representatives of the Brazilian armed forces.
		But besides the official position of President Lula da Silva, influential members of President Lula's administration know better and have already proven to be vigilant and active against technologies leading to weapons of mass destruction.
		On January 14th, 2002, Presidents Lula and Duhalde reaffirmed the commitment of Brazil and Argentina to restrict the "use of the nuclear energy exclusively to peaceful purposes".
	www.inesap.org /bulletin21/bul21art13.htm (1326 words)

	Lula's Brazil: a balance sheet
		When he formed his new government, these commitments were confirmed by the appointment of the former director of the Bank of Boston as head of the central bank and by the appointment to the ministries of economics and finance of a team that was more neoliberal than social.
		In the meantime, the Brazilian economy is dying on the vine.
		Internationally, the bankrupt Social Democracy is taking the “Lula” experience as its banner, counterposing the turtle’s pace and broad alliances of the “Brazilian model” to the precipitate advance of the Chilean Unidad Popular, which is supposed to have facilitated or provoked Pinochet’s coup d’etat.
	www.geocities.com /mnsocialist/lula.html (1341 words)

	Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva
		Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has claimed to be a spokesman for the world's developing nations, but his attempts at building an alliance among those countries hit a snag in Africa.
		In Brazil, a former union leader, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, is the front- runner for the presidential election in October.
		Usually referred to as Lula, the former metalworker and trade unionist chose a cabinet that includes four fls, including one in the newly created position of secretary for the promotion of racial equality.
	lycos.cs.cmu.edu /info/luiz-inacio-lula-da-silva.html (268 words)

	Emol.com - Lula da Silva fue reelecto Presidente de Brasil
		BRASILIA.- El Presidente Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva conquistó el hoy un nuevo mandato para comandar Brasil hasta el año 2010, al derrotar a su rival con un 60,81 por ciento de los votos.
		En 2002, Lula había derrotado en segunda vuelta al también socialdemócrata José Serra por 61,27% a 38,23% los votos.
		Lula se anticipó a los resultados al acudir a votar hoy y comenzó a celebrar desde temprano.
	www.emol.com /noticias/internacional/detalle/detallenoticias.asp?idnoticia=234432 (754 words)

	Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva - Wikimedia Commons
		Español: Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Presidente de Brasil.
		Lula e o Presidente da Rússia, Vladimir Putin.
		Lula e estudantes brasileiros de medicina em Cuba.
	commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/Luiz_In%C3%A1cio_Lula_da_Silva (317 words)

	Lula wins Brazil's presidential runoff
		Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, a longtime union activist, became Brazil's president-elect Sunday in a presidential runoff election.
		Silva – known as "Lula" – has promised to narrow the gap between rich and poor in Latin America's biggest country.
		Lula's leftist tendencies make many Brazilians and global markets nervous, especially as he champions the country's 50 million people said to be living in poverty.
	www.cbc.ca /world/story/2002/10/28/brazil_lula021028.html (1043 words)

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