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...once more entered the political arena upon the election of leftist President Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva in 2002, when he was appointed the Minister of Culture...
...spent decades fighting illegal efforts by loggers and ranchers to appropriate land in the Amazon rain forest; after being shot in the face by gunmen just days after she met with Brazil's Human Rights Secretary to report death threats against local farmers; near Anapu, Brazil. President Luiz Incio Lula da Silva responded to the outcry over her death last week by creating two vast Amazonian forest preserves and sending the first of 2,000 troops to the region...
...decades fighting efforts by illegal loggers and ranchers to appropriate vast areas of land in the Amazon rain forest; after being shot in the face by gunmen, just days after she met with Brazil's Human-Rights Secretary to report death threats against local farmers; near Anapu, Brazil. President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva sent federal investigators and the first of 2,000 troops to the region, calling for a crackdown on violence against land activists...
...LUIZ INACIO LULA DA SILVA by Tim Padgett...
...didn't take long after his election in 2002 for the new President of Brazil, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, to make his mark. In Cancun, Mexico, last September, a coalition of developing nations shut down a meeting of the World Trade Organization. Led by Lula and Brazil, the developing world refused to negotiate new foreign-investment rules until powers like the U.S. and the European Union promised to cut the lavish agriculture subsidies that effectively keep developing-world farmers out of lucrative markets. Lula's stance may also derail or seriously dilute the Free Trade Area of the Americas...