Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

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Focuses on how the evangelical movement paved the way for the presidency of Jair Bolsonaro and poses the threat of a national theocracy in Brazil.

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Luiz Inácio DA Silva was born from Recife, capital of Pernambuco, a state in the Northeast of Brazil. He was the seventh of eight children of Aristides Inácio DA Silva and Eurídice Ferreira DE Melo. Two weeks after Lula's birth, his father moved to Santos, São Paulo, with Valdomira Ferreira DE Góis, a cousin of Eurídice. He was raised Roman Catholic. Lula's mother was of Portuguese and partial Italian descent.

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The Edge of Democracy

7.3

Self - Ex-Presidente(as Lula da Silva)

2019

Guerra & Paz: Portinari

6.0

Video

Narrator

2012

ABC da Greve

7.9

Additional Crew(as Lula, himself)

1990

Entreatos

7.8

Self(as Lula)

2004

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Guerra & Paz: Portinari
6.0
Video
- Narrator
- 2012

Writer

Additional Crew

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He migrated from his homeland in the arid north eastern Brazil to São Paulo, in 1952, aboard a cargo truck used for collective transport (commonly known as "pau-de-arara", or parrot-pole).