ESP: Político brasileño, actual Presidente de la República desde 2003. Nació en el pequeño pueblo llamado Caetés, estado de Pernambuco, con el nombre de Luiz Inácio da Silva (el apodo "Lula" lo agregó oficialmente a su nombre en 1982). A los siete años de edad Lula realizó un viaje común para muchos campesinos de Brasil: en condiciones no muy buenas, se mudó al estado de São Paulo, con la esperanza de encontrar allí mejores oportunidades de vida. Llegaron a vivir a Guarujá, ciudad del litoral del estado. Tuvo una infancia humilde como lustrabotas. Luiz Inácio fue alfabetizado en el Grupo Escolar Marcílio Dias cuando tenía diez años. En 1956 se mudó a ...
Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Thursday blamed the global economic crisis on “white people with blue eyes” and said it was wrong that black and indigenous people should pay for white people’s mistakes.Speaking in Brasília at a joint press conference with Gordon Brown, the UK prime minister, Mr Lula da Silva told reporters: “This crisis was caused by the irrational behaviour of white people with blue eyes, who before the crisis appeared to know everything and now demonstrate that they know nothing.”
He added: “I do not ...
spetr - in poll Luiz Lula Four-in-five adults in Brazil are satisfied with their president, according to a poll by Instituto Sensus. 80.3 per cent of respondents approve of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s performance, up 2.6 points since September. Lula—a member of the Worker’s Party (PT)—won the October 2002 presidential election with 61 per cent of the vote in a run-off against Jose Serra of the Brazilian Party of Social Democracy (PSDB). In October 2006, he earned a new four-year term, defeating PSDB candidate Geraldo Alckmin with 60.8 per cent of the vote in the second round. Lula is ineligible ...
spetr - in poll Luiz Lula Brazil's newly discovered "pre-salt" oilfields may contain more than 100bn barrels, Haroldo Lima, head of the industry regulatory, said yesterday.Mr Lima said just the pre-salt oilfields already under concession may contain between 50bn and 80bn barrels and that the total area could surpass 100bn barrels.If so, the new fields would propel Brazil up the world league table of oil-producing nations. Brazil currently has reserves of about 12.6bn barrels (or 14.4bn barrels of oil equivalent if natural gas is included), according to a statistical review produced by BP of the UK, a standard industry ...
