Curitiba – 8/15/2018 – 8.30 PM It’s official: Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is the Workers’ Party candidate for the Presidency of the Republic. His candidacy was registered with the Higher Electoral Court (TSE) this Wednesday (08/15). In the words of Fernando Haddad, the candidate for Vice President on the Lula ticket (supported by a coalition made up of the …
CURITIBA, Brazil — Sixteen years ago, Brazil was in crisis; its future uncertain. Our dreams of developing into one of the world’s most prosperous and democratic countries seemed imperiled. The idea that one day our citizens might enjoy the comfortable living standards of our peers in Europe or other Western democracies seemed to be fading away. Less than two decades after dictatorship …
Bulletin 176 – People’s Committee in Defense of Lula and Democracy Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil – 8/13/2018 – 8:35 PM The National Free Lula March is getting closer to Brasilia hour by hour. The three columns, with thousands of rural workers, which left from three different locations on the outskirts of the Federal District should arrive at Mané Garrincha stadium …
Bulletin 175 – People’s Committee in Defense of Lula and Democracy Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil – 8/12/2018 – 8:10 PM In a note released this Sunday, August 12th, PT demanded that the National Justice Council and the Senate take a stand on the illegal acts made by agents of the State against ex-President Lula. The General Director of the Federal …
Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil – 8/9/2018 – 8:20 PM The ex-President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was visited today, August 9th, by Sharan Burrow, General-Secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC). “We came to bring him the solidarity of 207 million workers from around the world,” said Burrow, who came to Curitiba accompanied by CUT Union Federation President Vagner Freitas. …
Bulletin 171 – People’s Committee in Defense of Lula and Democracy Curitiba, 8/8/2018 – 7:25 PM During an interview on Radio Guaíba, in Rio Grande do Sul, Fernando Haddad, Vice Presidential candidate on Lula’s ticket and his spokesman, reaffirmed his candidacy for the Vice Presidency. Haddad said that the ticket is making all efforts possible to guarantee that the election …
Bulletin 170 – People’s Committee in Defense of Lula and Democracy Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil – 8/7/2018 – 8PM After the announcement of the alliance between the PT and the PC do B, which made the Lula-Haddad-Manuela ticket official, the spokespersons for the PT Presidential candidate gave their first press conference on this Tuesday, August 7th. Fernando Haddad and Manuela D’Ávila said that they …
Bulletin 169 – People’s Committee in Defense of Lula and Democracy Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil – 6/8/2018 – 7:30 PM PT National President, Senator Gleisi Hoffmann (Paraná), and the pre-candidate for Vice President, Fernando Haddad, visited ex-President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva today in the federal police headquarters building in Curitiba, where he is being held as a political prisoner. …
In a meeting that finished shortly before midnight on Sunday, August 5th, the presidents of PT, Senator Gleisi Hoffmann (Paraná) and the PC do B, Congresswoman Luciana Santos (Pernambuco), announced Manuela D’Àvila as the Vice Presidential candidate on the ticket that will have Lula as candidate for the presidency of the republic. At this initial moment, however, due to Lula’s …
Bulletin 168 – People’s Committee in Defense of Lula and Democracy Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil – 8/5/2018 – 9:50 PM 1. After traveling over 4000 kilometers through the states of Pernambuco, Bahia, Minas Gerais, São Paulo and Paraná, the Semiarid Caravan Against Hunger arrived in Brasilia, with a plan to consolidate all of the complaints against the setbacks caused by the …
