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Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

Incumbent
Assumed office 
1 January 2003
Vice President José Alencar
Preceded by Fernando Henrique Cardoso
Born 27 October 1945 (1945-10-27) (age 63)
Caetés, Pernambuco
Political party PT
Coalition: PC do B, PTB, PRB, PMDB, PR, PSB, PP, PMN
Spouse 1. Maria de Lourdes - died
2. Marisa Letícia (née Rocco Casa)
Children Lurian Cordeiro
Marcos Cláudio
Fábio Luís
Sandro Luís
Luís Cláudio
Residence Palácio da Alvorada (official)
São Bernardo do Campo, São Paulo (private)
Occupation Politician
Metalworker
Union organizer
Religion Roman Catholicism
Website www.presidencia.gov.br

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Portuguese pronunciation: [luˈiz iˈnäsjʊ ˈlulɐ dä ˈsiʊ̯vɐ]; born 27 October 1945), known commonly by the nickname Lula,[1] is the thirty-fifth and current President of Brazil, and a founding member of the Workers' Party.

Having run for President three times unsuccessfully since the 1989 election, Lula achieved victory in 2002, and was inauguarated as President on 1 January 2003. In the 2006 election he was re-elected, extending his term as President until 1 January 2011.

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[edit] Early life

Luiz Inácio da Silva was born on 27 October 1945 in Caetés (then a district of Garanhuns), Pernambuco. He is the seventh of eight children of Aristides Inácio da Silva and Eurídice Ferreira de Melo. Two weeks after Lula's birth, his father moved to Santos with Valdomira Ferreira de Góis, a cousin of Eurídice.

On December 1952, when Lula was only seven years old, his mother decided to migrate to São Paulo with her children to rejoin her husband. After a journey of thirteen days in a pau-de-arara (the open cargo area of a truck), they arrived in Guarujá and discovered that Aristides had formed a second family with Valdomira. Aristides' two families lived in the same house for sometime, but they didn't get along very well, and four years later, Eurídice moved with her children to a small room in the back area of a bar in the city of São Paulo. After that, Lula rarely saw his father, who became an alcoholic and died in 1978.

[edit] Education and work

Lula had little formal education. He did not learn to read until he was ten years old,[2] and quit school after the fourth grade in order to work to help his family. His working life began at age 12 as a shoeshiner and street vendor.[3] By age 14 he got his first formal job in a copper processing factory as a lathe operator.

At age 19, he lost the little finger on his left hand in an accident while working as a press operator in an automobile parts factory.[2] After losing his finger he had to run to several hospitals to receive attention. This experience increased his interest in participating within Workers' Union. Around that time, he became involved in union activities and held several important union posts.[3] Brazil's dictatorship strongly curbed trade unions' activities, and as a reaction Lula's views moved further to the political left.

In 1969 he married Maria de Lourdes, who died of hepatitis later that year.[2] In 1974 Lula married the widow Marisa, with whom he had three sons (he also adopted Marisa's son from her first marriage). Earlier that year, he had a daughter out of wedlock with Miriam Cordeiro.

[edit] Union career

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In 1978 he was elected president of the Steel Workers' Union of São Bernardo do Campo and Diadema, cities in the Greater São Paulo, home to most of Brazil's automobile manufacturing facilities (such as Ford, Volkswagen, Toyota, Mercedes-Benz and others) and among the most industrialized in the country. In the late 1970s, Lula helped organize major union activities including huge strikes. He was jailed for a month, but was released following protests. For many years he was president of the Central Única dos Trabalhadores (CUT), a union federation that is strongly influenced by the PT.

[edit] Political career

On 10 February 1980, a group of academics, intellectuals, and union leaders, including Lula, founded the Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT) or Workers' Party, a left-wing party with progressive ideas created in the midst of the military dictatorship.

In 1982 he added the nickname Lula to his legal name.Nickname[›] In 1983 he helped found the Central Única dos Trabalhadores (CUT) union association. In 1984 PT and Lula joined the popular Diretas Já campaign, demanding a direct popular vote for the next Brazilian presidential election. According to the 1967 Constitution, Presidents were then elected by both Houses of Congress in joint session, plus representatives of all State Legislatures, but this was widely recognized as a mere sham as, since the March 1964 coup d'état, only high-level military personnel (all retired generals) chosen after a closed military caucus had been so "elected". As a direct result of the campaign and after years of popular struggle, the 1989 elections were the first to elect a president by direct popular vote in 29 years.

In 1992 Lula joined the campaign for the impeachment of president Fernando Collor de Mello after a series of scandals involving public funds.

[edit] Elections

Lula first ran for office in 1982, for the state government of São Paulo. He lost, but helped his party to gain enough votes to remain in existence. In the 1986 elections Lula won a seat in Congress with a medium percentage of the votes. The Workers' Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores, PT) helped write the country's post-dictatorship constitution, ensuring strong constitutional guarantees for workers' rights, but failing to achieve redistribution of rural agricultural land.

In 1989, still as a Congressman, Lula ran as the PT presidential candidate. Although he was popular with a wide spectrum of Brazilian society, he was feared as an opponent by business owners and financial interests, and was submitted to a thorough vilification by the media,[citation needed]something which contributed significantly to his loss in the election. The fact that his party was formed as a loose confederacy of trade unionists, grassroots activists, left Catholics, left-center social democrats and small Trotskyist groupings, although dampening overtly ideological issues, also earned him the distrust of better-off Brazilians precisely because of the ability of the PT to represent itself as the first working class mass movement organized on a grassroots basis.[citation needed]

Lula refused to run for re-election as a congressman in 1990, busying himself with expanding the Workers' Party organizations around the country. He continued to run for President in 1994 and 1998. As the political scene in the 1990s came to be under the sway of the real monetary stabilization plan, which ended decades of rampant inflation, Lula lost in 1994 (in the first round) to the official candidate, former Minister of Finance Fernando Henrique Cardoso, who ran for re-election (after a constitutional amendment ended the long-held rule that a president could not have a second term) in 1998, also having a first-round win.

In the following 2002 campaign, Lula foreswore both his informal clothing style and his platform plank of conditioning the payment of Brazil's foreign debt to a prior thorough audit. This last point had worried economists, businessmen and banks, who feared that even a partial Brazilian default along with the already ongoing Argentine default would have a massive ripple effect through the world economy. Lula became President after winning the second round of the 2002 election, held on 27 October, defeating the Partido da Social Democracia Brasileira candidate José Serra.

[edit] Presidency

[edit] Political orientation

Lula on a state visit to Mozambique, November 2003. The President aims to build Brazil's relationships with other Portuguese-speaking countries.

From the beginning of his political career to the present, Lula has changed some of his original ideas and moderated his positions. Instead of drastic social changes as he proposed in the past, his government chose a reformist line, passing new retirement, tax, labor and judicial legislation, and discussing university reform. Very few actual reforms have been implemented so far. Some wings of the Worker's Party have disagreed with this moderation in focus and have left the party to form dissident wings such as the Workers' Cause Party, the United Socialist Workers' Party and the Socialism and Freedom Party. Alliances with conservative, right wing politicians, like former Presidents José Sarney and Fernando Collor, have been a cause of disappointment for some.[4]

On 1 October 2006, Lula narrowly missed winning another term in the first round of elections. He faced a run-off on 29 October which he won by a substantial margin.[5] In an interview published 26 August 2007, he said that he had no intention to seek a constitutional change so that he could run for a third consecutive term; he also said that he wanted "to reach the end of [his] term in a strong position in order to influence the succession".[6]

[edit] Social projects

Lula put social programs at the top of his agenda during his campaign and since his election.The real achievements since the beginning of the two terms have led to internal criticism that points to a enormous gap between campaign promises and facts. Lula's leading program since very early on has been a campaign to eradicate hunger, following the lead of projects already put into practice by the Fernando Henrique administration, but expanded as Fome Zero (Zero Hunger).[7] This program brings together a series of programs with the goal to end hunger in Brazil; including programs to create cisterns in Brazil's semi-arid region of Sertão, to counter juvenile pregnancy, to strengthen family agriculture, to distribute a minimum amount of cash to the poor, and many other measures. The largest program is called Bolsa Família, among the many adapted from an earlier initiative by Fernando Henrique Cardoso administration, but without its original mandatory educational return (what has been criticised as turning a humanitarian and educational initiative into a food for votes program) which gives cash to families with very low income. It requires that the families send their children to school and keep their mandatory personal vaccination-booklets duly updated. Fome Zero has a governmental budget and accepts donations from the public and international community. The Bolsa Família program has been praised internationally for its achievements, despite internal criticism accusing it of having turned into a governmental political weapon. Along with projects such as The Zero hunger and Bolsa Família, the Lula's administration Flagship program is the PAC, or Program of Acceleration of Development. The PAC program has a total budget to 646 billion reais (281 billion dollars) by 2010 and is the Lula administration's main social program. It is intended to strengthen Brazil's infrastructure, and consequently to stimulate the private sector and create more jobs. The social and urban infrastructure sector was scheduled to receive 84.2 billion reais (37 billion dollars), of which only a small fraction of it has actually been spent due to many factors including inadequacy of projects and lack of potential private partners.

[edit] Economy

As Lula gained strength in the run-up to the 2002 elections, the fear of drastic measures (and comparisons with Hugo Chávez of Venezuela) increased internal market speculation. This led to some market hysteria, contributing to a currency maxi-devaluation on the real, and a rise in Brazil's risk factor by more than 2000 base points.[8]

In the beginning of his first term, Lula's chosen Minister of Finance was Antonio Palocci, a physician and former Trotskyist 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. Lula also chose Henrique Meirelles of the Brazilian Social Democracy Party, a prominent market-oriented economist, as head of the Brazilian Central Bank. As a former CEO of the BankBoston he was well-known to the market.[9] Meirelles was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 2002 as a member of the opposing PSDB, but resigned as deputy to become Governor of the Central Bank.[9]

Silva and his cabinet followed in part with the ideals of the previous government,[10] by renewing all agreements with the International Monetary Fund, which were signed by the time Argentina defaulted on its own deals in 2001. His government achieved a satisfactory primary budget surplus in the first two years, as required by the IMF agreement, exceeding the target for the third year. In late 2005, the government paid off its debt to the IMF in full, two years ahead of schedule.[11] By following the macroeconomic agenda of the previous government,[12] three years after the election, Lula had slowly but firmly gained the market's confidence, and sovereign risk indexes fell to around 250 points. The government's choice of inflation targeting kept the economy stable, and was complimented during the 2005 World Economic Forum in Davos.[citation needed]

The Brazilian economy was generally not affected by the Mensalão scandal.[citation needed] In early 2006, however, Palocci had to resign as finance minister due to his involvement in an abuse of power scandal. Lula then appointed Guido Mantega, a member of the PT and an economist by profession, as finance minister. Mantega, a former Marxist who had written a Ph.D. thesis (in Sociology) on the history of economic ideas in Brazil from a left-wing viewpoint, is presently known for his criticism of high interest rates, which satisfy banking interests.[citation needed] Besides being unable to do so in practice, he been supportive of a higher employment by the sate, what has been appointed by experts as being the main cause of the banks high interest, the state being the main captor of circulating money to keep its own expenses, i.e., non productive expenses, rolling. Banks have had record profit ever, in Lula's government, and this very fact has been denounced as incompatible with the self proclaimed social orientation in Lula's government economic policy.[13]

Not long after the start of his second term, Lula, alongside his cabinet, announced the Growth Acceleration Program (Programa de Aceleração do Crescimento), a vast series of measures created with the intention of solving many of the problems that prevent the Brazilian economy from growing at higher rates. The measures include investment in the creation and recuperation of roads and railways, simplification and reduction of taxation, and modernization on the country's energy production to avoid further shortages among others. The money promised to be spent in this Program is considered to be around R$500 billion (more than 250 billion dollars) in four years. Part of the measures still depend on approval by the congress, some of them have already generated negative reactions from organizations that consider them unfair and governors of some states that claim the share allocated to their regions to be insufficient.[citation needed] Although a longtime critic of privatization policies, Lula and his government created public-private partnership concessions for seven federal roadways.[14]

After decades as the largest emerging market debtor, Brazil became a net foreign creditor for the first time in January 2008.[15] By mid-2008, both Fitch ratings and S&P had elevated the classification of Brazilian debt from speculative to investment grade.


[edit] Controversies

 This article's Criticism or Controversy section(s) may mean the article does not present a neutral point of view of the subject. It may be better to integrate the material in such sections into the article as a whole.

President Lula has approved the MP458, a multiparty initiative that privatizes huge areas in the Amazon for cattle ranching and other predatory uses of the Amazon forest[16]. Lula's political allies include plantation owners and cattle farming companies that have been burning enormous extensions of forest. The MP458, is considered by reputable commentators as a victory of private interest of old oligarchies in detriment of the people and the environment. Marina Silva, former minister of environment is one of those critics.[17] Moreover, Brazilian state-owned development bank BNDES, is financing three of the biggest wholesalers of meat products despite them being accused and proven guilty of forest devastation. This state owned bank of enormous economic and political resources is reported of having acquired [18] 27.5% stake in Bertin Ltda, a major environmental aggressor, which means, the state in Brazil is currently financing the Amazon forest devastation. This ongoing ecological crime has been reported by Greenpeace. [19]- [20] Another governmental supported ecological disaster has been promoted by INCRA (National Institute of Agrarian Reformation) under the excuse of land distribution to the poor.[21]

Lula has faced criticism for recurrent corruption scandal benefiting private groups and his own party and also for alliances made with right-wing politicians, bankers, plantation owners and most of the economic elite of Brazil, what has led observers to question his self-proclaimed position as a socialist leader.

[edit] Foreign policy

Main article: Foreign relations of Brazil
BRIC leaders in 2008 - Manmohan Singh, Dmitry Medvedev, Hu Jintao and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
Lula with Raúl Castro
Lula meeting with United States President Barack Obama.

According to The Economist of 2 March 2006, Lula has a pragmatic foreign policy, seeing himself as a negotiator, not an ideologue. As a result, he has befriended both Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez and former U.S. President George W. Bush. Leading a large and competitive agricultural state, Lula generally opposes and criticizes farm subsidies, and this position has been seen as one of the reasons for the walkout of developing nations and subsequent collapse of the Cancún World Trade Organization talks in 2003 over G8 agricultural subsidies.[22] Brazil is becoming influential in dialogue between South America and developed countries, especially the United States. It played an important role in negotiations in internal conflicts of Venezuela and Colombia, and concentrated efforts on strengthening Mercosur.[23]

During the Lula administration, Brazilian foreign trade has increased dramatically, changing from deficits to several surpluses since 2003. In 2004 the surplus reached $29 billion due to a substantial increase in global demand for commodities. Brazil has also sent troops and leads a peace-keeping mission in Haiti.

Lula also gained increasing stature in the hemisphere buoyed by economic growth in his country. In 2008, he was said to have become a "point man for healing regional crises," as in the escalation of tensions between Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador. Former Finance Minister, and current advisor, Delfim Netto, said: "Lula is the ultimate pragmatist."[24]

A major goal of Lula's foreign policy has been for the country to gain a seat as a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council. In this he has been unsuccessful.

[edit] Awards and recognition

Since Lula began his term as President, he has attained numerous medals, such as the Brazilian Order of Merit, the Brazilian Orders of Military, Naval and Aeronautical Merit, the Brazilian Order of Science Merit, the Order of the Southern Cross, the Mexican Order of the Aztec Eagle [25] and the Norwegian Order of Royal Merit. He also received the Prince of Asturias Award for International Cooperation in 2003[26] and was a guest of honour at India's Republic Day Celebrations of 2004.[27] On 20 December 2008, Lula was named the 18th most important person in the world by Newsweek magazine. He was the only Latin American person featured in a list of 50 most influential World leaders.[28] On July 7th, 2009, he received UNESCO's Félix Houphouët-Boigny Peace Prize at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, France.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Luiz Inácio da Silva was Lula's full birth name, which he used from 1945 to 1982, but he has been known as Lula since childhood; the nickname itself is a hypocoristic for Luiz with consonantal reduplication. Consequently, Lula became the name by which he was known throughout his career as a metallurgical worker, and as he emerged in the national scene as a union leader, and for all his political life. In 1982, in order to run for governorship of the state of São Paulo, Lula changed his legal name, adding the nickname Lula by which he was nationally known. Under Brazilian electoral laws at the time, one could only use one's legal name to run for public office. Currently, Brazilian newspapers refer to him either (more formally) using his full name Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva or (informally or on second reference) only his moniker Lula.
  2. ^ a b c "Lula: Fourth time lucky?". BBC News (BBC). 2002-10-28. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/2367851.stm. Retrieved on 2007-04-27. 
  3. ^ a b "Biography". Presidency of the Federative Republic of Brazil. 2005. http://www.presidencia.gov.br/ingles/president. Retrieved on 2007-09-02. 
  4. ^ The Economist (2009-02-05). "Where dinausaurs still roam". http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13062220. Retrieved on 2009-05-12. 
  5. ^ "Brazil re-elects President Lula". BBC News (BBC). 2006-10-30. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6095820.stm. Retrieved on 2007-04-27. 
  6. ^ Newsroom (2007-08-27). "Brazilian President Vows Not to Seek a Third Term". Mercopress via Brazzil Magazine. http://www.brazzilmag.com/content/view/8599/54/. Retrieved on 2008-04-05. 
  7. ^ Kirksey, Emily (2006-06-21). "Lula - Brazil's Lost Leader". Council on Hemispheric Affairs. http://www.coha.org/2006/06/21/lula-brazils-lost-leader/. Retrieved on 2008-04-05. 
  8. ^ "Brazil hit by debt downgrade". BBC News (BBC). 2002-06-21. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/2057137.stm. Retrieved on 2007-08-09. 
  9. ^ a b "Henrique de Campos Meirelles". Banco Central do Brazil. http://www.bcb.gov.br/pre/quemequem/ingl/presidentes/henriqueMeirelles.asp. Retrieved on 2007-08-09. 
  10. ^ Balbi, Sandra (2005-12-18). "Economistas Alertam para Desindustrialização" (in Portuguese). Folha de S. Paulo. http://www.iedi.org.br/cgi/cgilua.exe/sys/start.htm?2=217&sid=77&1=43&infoid=1749. Retrieved on 2008-04-05. 
  11. ^ "Brazil to pay off IMF debts early". BBC News (BBC). 2005-12-14. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4527438.stm. Retrieved on 2007-04-27. 
  12. ^ Pimenta, Angela (2006-06-27). "Lula segue política econômica de FHC, diz diretor do FMI" (in Portuguese). BBC Brasil (New York City, New York: BBC). http://www.bbc.co.uk/portuguese/reporterbbc/story/2006/06/060626_lulafhcpimenta.shtml. Retrieved on 2008-04-05. 
  13. ^ {{|url=http://:alainet.org/active/19077&lang=es|title=Lula e o lucro recorde dos bancos |publisher=La Agencia Latinoamericana de Información - ALAI |date=2007-08-16 |accessdate=2009-06-23 |language=Portuguese }}
  14. ^ Clemente, Isabel; Leal, Andréa; Neves, Maria Laura. "Enfim, Lula privatizou..." (in Portuguese). Época (Rede Globo). http://revistaepoca.globo.com/Revista/Epoca/0,,EDG79551-6009,00.html. Retrieved on 2008-04-05. 
  15. ^ Parra-Bernal, Guillermo; Pimentel, Lester. "Brazil Became Net Creditor for First Time in January". Bloomberg.com (Bloomberg). http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aPLYQJIG_Re8. Retrieved on 2008-01-06. 
  16. ^ http://www.estadao.com.br/estadaodehoje/20090609/not_imp384514,0.php//|title=Lula deve ignorar pressão e vetar um só artigo da MP da Amazônia|publisher=http://www.estadao.com.br/home/index.shtm |year=2009 |accessdate=2009-06-10
  17. ^ http://oglobo.globo.com/pais/mat/2009/06/09/marina-silva-essa-alienacao-equivale-quase-quatro-bbs-756258804.asp |title=Marina Silva: Esta alienação equivale à quatro BBs |publisher=oglobo.globo.com|year=2009 |accessdate=2009-06-10<
  18. ^ http://www.alacrastore.com/storecontent/Thomson_M&A/BNDES_acquires_a_minority_stake_in_Bertin_Ltda_from_Heber_Participacoes_Ltda-1976598040|publisher=http://www.alacrastore.com/|2009/05/05 |accessdate=2009-06-18
  19. ^ http://www.greenpeace.org/international/press/reports/slaughtering-the-amazon|publisher=greenpeace international |2009/06/01 |accessdate=2009-06-18
  20. ^ http:/http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/folha/brasil/ult96u579899.shtml ONG pede ao BNDES suspensão de contratos com 3 frigoríficos |title= |publisher=ofolha online|11/06/2009 - 11h49 |accessdate=2009-06-18
  21. ^ http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/folha/brasil/ult96u458883.shtml|title= Ministério mantém Incra no ranking de desmatamento|publisher=Folha online=2008/10/22
  22. ^ Padgett, Tim (2004-04-26). "Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva". Time. http://www.time.com/time/subscriber/2004/time100/leaders/100lula.html. Retrieved on 2008-03-26. 
  23. ^ Lapper, Richard; Wheatley, Jonathan; Silva, Luiz Inácio Lula da (2006-07-11). "Interview transcript: Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva". Financial Times (Brasília, Brazil). http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/6d42ae3a-110b-11db-9a72-0000779e2340.html. Retrieved on 2008-04-05. 
  24. ^ "Brazil's Lula takes center stage in Latin America - Los Angeles Times". Latimes.com. 2008-10-05. http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-fg-latin5-2008oct05,0,1861646.story. Retrieved on 2009-07-02. 
  25. ^ Walle, Suzanne Stephens (2007-08-06). "President Calderón at Dinner Hosted in Honor of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and his wife, Marisa Leticia Lula da Silva". Sistema Internet de la Presidencia. http://www.presidencia.gob.mx/prensa/?contenido=31289. Retrieved on 2007-09-13. 
  26. ^ "The Prince of Asturias Foundation". Fundacionprincipedeasturias.org. http://www.fundacionprincipedeasturias.org/ing/04/generados/galardonados2003_0.html. Retrieved on 2009-07-02. 
  27. ^ "India shows off on republic day". BBC News (BBC). 2004-01-26. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3424537.stm. Retrieved on 2008-04-05. 
  28. ^ "The NEWSWEEK 50: Brazil's Chief, Lu­la da Silva | Newsweek The Global Elite". Newsweek.com. 2009-01-05. http://www.newsweek.com/id/176304. Retrieved on 2009-07-02. 

[edit] Further reading

  • Silva, Luis Inácio da; Castro, Cassiana Rosa de; Machado, Sueli de Fátima; Santos, Alveci Oliveira de Orato; Ferreira, Luiz Tarcísio Teixeira; Teixeira, Paulo; Suplicy, Marta; Dutra, Olívio (2003). "The programme for land tenure legalization on public land in São Paulo, Brazil." Environment and Urbanization 15 (2): 191–200.
  • Bourne, R (2008). Lula of Brazil : The story so far. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-24663-8

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