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Article: Lula da Silva, Luiz Inácio
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- Encyclopedia of World Biography
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Luiz In
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cio Lula da Silva
Luiz In
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cio Lula da Silva (born 1945), known as Lula, steered a middle course between helping his country's poor and stabilizing the country economically after his election as Brazil's president in 2002.
Lula came to the presidency from a labor union background, and he won the presidency partly through populist appeals. Yet the first part of his presidency was not marked by the turn to the political left undertaken by his Venezuelan counterpart, Hugo Ch
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vez. Lula expanded government antipoverty programs while maintaining stability in Brazil's financial relationships with the rest of the world. He
was seen as a new breed of Latin American ...