Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
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Emerging from a modest upbringing in Pernambuco, Lula left school after second grade, learned to read at ten, and entered metalworking before becoming a trade union leader. He directed the ABC strikes against Brazil’s military regime (1978-80), co-founded the Workers’ Party in 1980, and helped drive the 1984 Diretas Já campaign for direct elections, later serving as a federal deputy for São Paulo.…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources