Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

Liberation Command where she met her future husband and fellow activist Claudio Geleno Linhares. “The couple was a part of a raid on the Colina safe house where police officers were killed (Ray & Wallenfeldt, 2016).” The couple then fled to Rio de Janeiro where they went their separate ways and divorced. “Dilma participated in the left-wing urban guerrilla movements during the dictatorship and a three year prison sentence for violating the National Security Act (Skidmore, 2014).” After she finished her prison sentence Dilma continued her education and once again went back into politics. In 2002, Dilma joined the Workers Party presidential campaign to help get Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva elected president. After her won the election Lula appointed Dilma as the Minister of Mines and Energy (Cod, Dilma Rousseff life and biography, 2010). Lula was near the end of his second term as president and started preparing Dilma to become president. In 2011, Dilma was the first female president of Brazil. Dilma’s plan was to stabilize the economy, eliminate poverty, create more jobs, and reform taxes. “Dilma helped 12 million people get electricity for the first time and she helped 40 million shifted from poverty to the middle class (Abrams, 2012).” In 2016, Dilma was impeached for misuse of state funds to cover up deficits in budget while the 2014 presidential election was going on. Michelle Bachelet was born on September 29, 1951 in Santiago, Chile. Her full name is Verónica Michelle…

government for cash. Second, the worry of the poor not knowing how to allocate resources well, thus policymakers knew what the poor needed the most. This last criticism quite ignorant because it assumes that the poor would blow all their money on drugs, alcohol, and other wasteful items. For the former criticism, analysis shows that there is simply no evidence of a culture of dependence, and that to prove such there needs to be “broad and pervasive influences across many different values,…

In Brazil, extreme wealth inequality has persisted since the arrival of Portuguese colonizers and the highly stratified race and class-based society they created. The nation’s role as an exporter of natural resources and agricultural goods – such as sugar, coffee, rubber, and diamonds – in the international economy has only exacerbated inequality by preventing economic diversification and failing to absorb a large labor force. Its transitions between different economic structures, from…

Dilma Rouseff was elected as the Brazilian during the 2010 Presidential elections and assumed office on January 1st, 2011. She represents a historical landmark for Brazil, and all of female politics because she is the first female President of Brazil. Rouseff identifies with the Workers Party of Brazil, which is classified as a left-winged party. Dilma Rouseff has been repeatedly stated in Forbes most powerful women in the world, including the year 2015 (Forbes). She has been detrimental to…

The favelas in Brazil are mainly built on the hillsides and they consist of small shacks where the city’s poor live. Many of the houses are single rooms and lack water, electricity, and plumbing of any kind. In the worst cases, the houses are single room buildings made out of cardboard, plastic and tin roofs held down by rocks. The more established favelas have houses of maybe 2 rooms and are made out of bricks rather than scavenged materials. Benedita da Silva, an Afro-Brazilian woman and…

struggling to hold on to power in the face of a massive corruption scandal and the worst recession in decades, urged demonstrators to remain peaceful, as 100,000 people marched in the capital of Brazil. Protesters did remain peaceful some even bringing their children, as well as buying things from street venders but even this peacefulness didn’t hid their anger. President Dilma Rousseff seems to have been part of a huge embezzlement and bribery scandal centered on state oil company Petrobras, do…

Throughout the following paragraphs, we will discuss the differences or similarities between these two fuel resources and how they contribute to our battle against pollution. Ethanol fuel can be traced as far as 1925 in nations such as Brazil. Brazil is the world's largest sugarcane ethanol producer and has been very successful in making it a common fuel to power their vehicles (Goldemberg, 2014). Starting off with sugar cane fuel, Brazil has been the nation that has shed light to the use of…

The years following the turn of the millennium represented a seismic shift in the scope of Brazilian politics. After running on behalf of the Brazilian Workers’ Party, otherwise known as the PT (Partido dos Trabalhadores), since the mid-1980s, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Lula) finally became elected in 2002, winning a landslide runoff election over José Serra of the Social-Democratic Party. As Lula assumed office and control over the government, he was confronted by an assortment of challenges…

becoming the first president in Brazil's history to win a second term. As president he favored policies that made Brazil attractive for foreign investment while at the same time addressing some of Brazil's most pressing social needs. Cardoso's primary challenge was to stabilize the country's failing economy. In order to avert a disaster, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) stepped in and gave $41.5 billion in emergency funds; in 1999 the government reduced the value of its currency. In 2001,…

Military mainly consists of lower class people that couldn’t deferment the contract. There haven’t been too many conflicts in Brazil so now the Brazilian military has joined the United Nations peacekeeping forces. Since 2004 some Brazilian Soldiers have been linked with the United Nations in Haiti to help stabilize the mission named MINUSTAH. The key focus of Brazil now is to focus on education, health-care, construction, and civic-action programs. (Scorza, 2006) Until the 21st century Brazil…