'''Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva''' (Garanhuns, Pernambuco State, born 1945) is a [[socialist]] politician who was the 35th President of [[Brazil]] and who is marred by charges of corruption. He was succeeded by [[Dilma Rousseff]] on January 1, 2011. In 1980, he founded with a group of leaders the Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT) or Workers' Party, a left-wing party and the left-wing international forum called [[Foro de São Paulo]]. Lula ran for President of Brazil three times unsuccessfully. | '''Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva''' (Garanhuns, Pernambuco State, born 1945) is a [[socialist]] politician who was the 35th President of [[Brazil]] and who is marred by charges of corruption. He was succeeded by [[Dilma Rousseff]] on January 1, 2011. In 1980, he founded with a group of leaders the Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT) or Workers' Party, a left-wing party and the left-wing international forum called [[Foro de São Paulo]]. Lula ran for President of Brazil three times unsuccessfully. |