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allthebrazilianpolitics · 2 years

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Bolsonaro seeks to woo Brazilian voters in Lula’s left-wing stronghold

President aims to offset loss of support in south by gaining votes in opponent’s home region in the north-east

A battered car mounted with oversized loudspeakers greets visitors to Garanhuns, a provincial city in north-east Brazil. “How we’ve missed voting for Lula!” a recorded message blares as the vehicle trundles around with little regard for the racket.

Nostalgia for Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva permeates the municipality where the leftwing former president was born 76 years ago. For much of the local population, Lula is a hero who delivered unprecedented opportunities during two terms as president between 2003 and 2010. Their support for him in October’s presidential election is a given.

“Lula is a darling of the region. We’re rooting for him because he was a president for the poor. We’re waiting for his return,” said Nivaldo Leão de Lima, a local bar owner.

It is a sentiment held across north-east Brazil, one that Lula’s main election rival, Jair Bolsonaro, is belatedly addressing. After years of ignoring a region that is among the poorest in Brazil, the far-right populist elected president in 2018 is seeking to hoover up support with a programme of infrastructure work and cash handouts.

Bolsonaro’s calculus is simple: he hopes that votes gained in the region of 57mn people make up for his declining popularity in big southern states such as São Paulo and Minas Gerais.

“Among the 150mn Brazilian voters, approximately 40 per cent are based in the north-east. For years, Bolsonaro boycotted the region because the state governments there are controlled by leftwing parties. Now he realises it’s important,” said Hussein Kalout, who was an official in the previous Michel Temer administration.

“Because he’s lost ground in São Paulo and Minas he’s decided to transfer the battle to the north-east and not simply give Lula the region.”

The question is whether the tactic can work.

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political-affairs · 11 years

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Lula Da Silva

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, President of Brazil

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Portuguese: [luˈiz iˈnasju ˈlulɐ dɐ ˈsiwvɐ] born 27 October 1945, known popularly as Lula,[2] is a Brazilian politician. He was a founding member of the Workers' Party (PT – Partido dos Trabalhadores) and ran for president three times unsuccessfully, first in the 1989 election, then again in 1994 and 1998. Lula achieved victory in the 2002 election, and was inaugurated as president on 1 January 2003. In the 2006 election he was elected for a second term as president, which ended on 1 January 2011.[3] He was succeeded by his former Chief of Staff, Dilma Rousseff.

He is often regarded as the most popular politician in the history of Brazil and, at the time of his mandate, one of the most popular in the world.[4][5][6] Social programs like Bolsa Família and Fome Zero are hallmarks of his time in office. Lula played a prominent role in recent international relations developments, including the Nuclear program of Iran and global warming, and was described as "a man with audacious ambitions to alter the balance of power among nations."[7] He was featured in Time's The 100 Most Influential People in the World for 2010,[8] and has been called "the most successful politician of his time."[9]

As of the 21st century, Lula is considered by most of the center, center-left and left-wing politicians and intellectuals from Brazil as one of the greatest Brazilian presidents.

In October 2011, Lula—who was a smoker for 40 years[10]—was diagnosed with throat cancer and quickly started chemotherapy treatment. Since the cancer was found he has successfully recovered and has since announced a return to politicsEarly life

Luiz Inácio da Silva was born on 27 October 1945 (but registered with a date of birth of 6 October 1945) in Caetés (then a district of Garanhuns), located 155 miles (250 km) from Recife, capital of Pernambuco, a Brazilian state in the Northeast of Brazil. He was 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.

In December 1952, when Lula was only 7 years old, his mother decided to move to São Paulo with her children to rejoin her husband. After a journey of thirteen days in a pau-de-arara (open truck bed), they arrived in Guarujá and discovered that Aristides had formed a second family with Valdomira. Aristides' two families lived in the same house for some time, 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.

Lula was married twice. In 1969, he married Maria de Lourdes, who died of hepatitis in 1971, when she was pregnant with their first son, who also died.[12] Lula and Miriam Cordeiro had a daughter, Lurian, out of wedlock in 1974.[13] In 1974, Lula married Marisa, his current wife and at the time a widow, with whom he had three sons (he has also adopted Marisa's son from her first marriage).

Education and work

Lula had little formal education. He did not learn to read until he was ten years old,[14] and quit school after the second grade in order to work to help his family. His working life began at age 12 as a shoeshiner and street vendor.[15] 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.[14] After losing his finger he had to run to several hospitals before he received medical attention. This experience increased his interest in participating within the Workers' Union. Around that time, he became involved in union activities and held several important union posts.[15] Due to perceived incompatibility with the Brazilian military government and trade union activities, Lula's views moved further to the political left.

Union career

Inspired by his brother Frei Chico, Lula joined the labour movement when he worked at Indústrias Villares. He rose steadily in the ranks, and was elected in 1975, and reelected in 1978, president of the Steel Workers' Union of São Bernardo do Campo and Diadema. Both cities are located in the ABCD Region, home to most of Brazil's automobile manufacturing facilities (such as Ford, Volkswagen, Toyota, Mercedes-Benz and others) and are among the most industrialized in the country. In the late 1970s, when Brazil was under military rule, Lula helped organize union activities, including major strikes. Labour courts found the strikes to be illegal, and Lula was jailed for a month. Due to this, and like other people imprisoned for political activities under the military government, Lula was awarded a lifetime pension after the regime fellEconomy

"Under Lula, Brazil became the world's eighth-largest economy, more than 20 million people rose out of acute poverty and Rio de Janeiro was awarded the 2016 Summer Olympics, the first time the Games will be held in South America."

— The Washington Post, October 2010[17]

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 drop in the value of the real, and a downgrade of Brazil's credit rating.[23]

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.[24] 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.[24]

Silva and his cabinet followed in part the lead of the previous government,[25] 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.[26] 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.

Economy

The Brazilian economy was generally not affected by the mensalão scandal.[27] 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 PhD 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, something he claims satisfy banking interests. So far, however, Brazil's interest rates remain among the highest in the world. Mantega has been supportive of a higher employment by the state.

Not long after the start of his second term, Lula, alongside his cabinet, announced the new Growth Acceleration Program (the Programa de Aceleração de Crescimento, or PAC, in Portuguese), an investment program to solve many of the problems that prevent the Brazilian economy from expanding more rapidly. The measures include investment in the creation and repair of roads and railways, simplification and reduction of taxation, and modernization on the country's energy production to avoid further shortages. The money promised to be spent in this Program is considered to be around R$ 500 billion (more than 250 billion dollars) over four years. Part of the measures still depend on approval by Congress. Prior to taking office, Lula had been a critic of privatization policies. In his government, however, his administration has created public-private partnership concessions for seven federal roadways.[28]

After decades as the largest foreign debtor among emerging economies, Brazil became a net creditor for the first time in January 2008.[29] By mid-2008, both Fitch ratings and S&P had elevated the classification of Brazilian debt from speculative to investment grade. Banks have had record profit in Lula's government.[30] The Lula Administration's economic policies also helped to significantly raise living standards, with the percentage of Brazilians belonging to the consumerist middle class rising from 37% to 50% of the population..

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jasrandal · 5 years

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7 baptized at Brazil's Northeast lectureship

7 baptized at Brazil's Northeast lectureship - #baptisms

GARANHUNS (PE) Brazil (BNC) — Seven people were baptized at the Northeast Christian Lectureship, held Jan. 17-20 in this interior city. Two were adults, five were adolescents.

From 41 congregations 243 people came together at a rural retreat center for the 33rd annual event that rotates among cities around the northeast region. The theme was 1 Corinthians, with 1 Cor 1.9 as the main text: “Called…

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investmart007 · 6 years

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SAO PAULO | Brazil's Lula da Silva barred from running for presidency

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SAO PAULO | Brazil's Lula da Silva barred from running for presidency

SAO PAULO— A majority of justices on Brazil’s electoral court voted late Friday to bar ex-President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva from running in October’s presidential election, virtually ending any chance that the front-runner will get on the ballot.

The decision, while long expected, leaves tens of millions of voters without a candidate and adds uncertainty to the race to lead Latin America’s largest nation.

After several hours of debate late Friday, five justices had voted against da Silva’s candidacy and just one in favor. One more was still to vote, though the majority was enough to seal da Silva’s fate.

Supreme Court Justice Luis Roberto Barroso cast the first vote, saying barring da Silva was “very simple” due to the conviction and upheld appeal.

“There is no margin here for the electoral court to make any other evaluation but the one showing there is a conviction, and that conviction matters in the candidate’s eligibility” to run, said Barroso.

Justice Edson Fachin disagreed, citing a recent call by a U.N. human rights committee calling for da Silva to be allowed to run while he appeals his conviction.

While justices were debating, the Workers’ Party put out ads on its social media channels featuring da Silva, holding to a strategy to keep the former president front and center as long as possible.

Da Silva was wildly popular as president of Latin America’s largest nation between 2003 and 2010. U.S. President Barack Obama once called him the “most popular politician on earth.” But da Silva and his Workers’ Party have lost much of that appeal over the last several years amid a sprawling corruption probe that has ensnared many top businessmen and politicians, including da Silva.

Da Silva, serving a 12-year-sentence for corruption and money laundering, is the front-runner despite being in jail. Under Brazilian law, da Silva is ineligible to run because his conviction was upheld on an initial appeal. But da Silva and supporters had hoped the Supreme Electoral Tribunal, which makes final decisions on candidacies, would allow him to run.

Da Silva has long argued that he should be allowed to run because his conviction was a sham. Judge Sergio Moro convicted da Silva of trading favors with construction company Grupo OAS in exchange for the promise of a beach house apartment.

He said the Workers’ Party should replace da Silva within 10 days, and he should not appear as a presidential candidate in free airtime that is given to political parties on nationwide TV and radio starting on Saturday

Da Silva’s lawyers complained the court was rushing a decision because they submitted their defense only on Thursday, noting that the court rarely holds sessions on Fridays.

In a statement late Friday, the Workers’ Party said it would appeal.

Earlier this year, the Supreme Federal Tribunal, the nation’s highest court, denied a petition by da Silva to get out of prison while he continued to appeal.

With da Silva out of the race, former Sao Paulo Mayor Fernando Haddad was expected to take his place on the Workers’ Party ticket.

Currently Haddad is candidate for vice president. Polls show tepid support for his bid as replacement, but the party hopes da Silva’s popularity could boost the former mayor’s hopes.

On Saturday, Haddad was scheduled to visit Garanhuns, a city in Brazil’s impoverished Northeast where da Silva was born.

By MAURICIO SAVARESE, Associated Press

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