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| IPTC INFO | | Caption | 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. Married to Marisa Letícia since 1974 they have five children. Lula is the seventh of eight children of Aristides Inácio da Silva and Eurídice Ferreira de Mello. Aristides left his wife and children to work as a stevedore in the port of Santos State of São Paulo carrying coffee sacks. Lula first met his father at the age of 5 when Aristides came home to visit his familyThe crisis after the military coup in 1964 obliged Lula to go from factory to factory looking for a job. In January 1966 he started working at Villares Industries one of the main metallurgical industries in the country located in São Bernardo do Campo within the metropolitan area of São Paulo known as ABC. In 1969 the Metallurgist´s Trade Union in São Bernardo do Campo and Diadema elected Lula as a substitute member of the board. Elected president of the trade union in 1975 with 92% of the votes Lula represented around 100 000 workers. On 10 March 1980 Lula founded the Worker´s Party together with other trade unionists intellectuals politicians and representatives of social movements such as rural and religious leaders. .......On 6 November 2002 Lula and José Alencar were elected President and Vice-President of the Federative Republic of Brazil with 61.27% of the valid votes 52.7 million. They were certified by the Electoral Court on 14 December 2002. | | Headline | President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva: 2004 a year of progress & order--27 stories | | Credit | Brazil consulate Washington DC | | URL | http://www.aforum.com/cgi-bin/forum?14@183.O9fqaXHBiZd.47043@.1682b52c | | User | Guest |
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