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Lula, Filho do Brasil is a biographical movie about former Brazilian President Luis Inácio Lula da Silva. The movie starts with Lula’s birth in Pernambuco and follows his life as a child and adult in São Paulo. Though the movie came out in Brazil in 2010, it is now being released in the United States this week. There are a few reviews out already – read The New York Times review, and NPR’s take on the film.

Back in 2009 before the film’s January 1, 2010 release, Bravo Magazine wrote this brief summary of the movie:

A história começa no semi-árido pernambucano com o nascimento do menino Luiz Inácio da Silva, um dos filhos de Dona Lindu (Glória Pires), e acompanha a trajetória da família até sua chegada a São Bernardo do Campo, onde Lula torna-se o principal líder sindical do Brasil. E termina com a morte de Dona Lindu em 1980, ano da fundação do PT. Entre o nascimento do futuro presidente e a morte da mãe, Lula cresce, torna-se torneiro mecânico, conhece sua primeira mulher, Lurdes (Cléo Pires), que morre de parto, entra no sindicado dos metalúrgicos do ABC, conhece sua segunda e atual mulher, a também viúva Marisa Letícia (Juliana Baroni), opõe-se à ditadura e acaba preso no Departamento de Ordem Política e Social, o Dops, de onde sai apenas para acompanhar o enterro da mãe.

Take a look at the trailers below!

English

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Portuguese

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Have you seen the movie yet? What do you think?

Last week, President Lula took a moment to discuss Wikileaks and his thoughts on the controversial website. There are subtitles available in English, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese but you can also watch the video without them to practice your listening comprehension. Have a look and see if you can answer the questions.

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Questions

1.  What is “liberdade de expressão?”

2. How does Lula plan to protest?

3. According to Lula, who is guilty in this kind of scenario?

4. What is the word for nonsense or rubbish that he uses?

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President Lula is making a big splash in the U.S. this week, where he’s attending several important events.

First, he accepted an award from the Woodrow Wilson Center, where he celebrated with other world leaders. Yesterday, he attended the UN General Assembly in New York, where he gave a long speech (watch and read the speech here). Now he is off to Pittsburgh for the G20 Summit.

Also, Lula was featured in Newsweek this week as “the most popular politician on earth” — read the article here. There’s also a special Q and A section with Lula available on the Newsweek website.

Oliver Stone’s new documentary, South of the Border, is due to be released soon, and President Lula will appear, along with several other Latin American presidents, including the leaders of Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, Paraguay, and Cuba, and starring Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez.

Check out the trailer below, and listen closely to the clip with Lula! (the rest is in Spanish)

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At this week’s G-8 summit in Italy, President Lula of Brazil gave President Obama an official Brazil soccer jersey signed by members of the national team.

The signatures included those of “Edmílson, Gomes, Lúcio, Vágner Love, Daniel Carvalho, Gilberto Silva, Ronaldinho Gaúcho, Elano, Robinho, Júlio Baptista, Alex and Dida.”

President Lula also teased President Obama about the US team’s 3-2 loss to Brazil last week, chanting “Yes, we can” several times. Obama joked about the game and took the teasing lightly, making a sad face while holding up the shirt to show his disappointment in the US loss. Lula also gave the same signed shirts to members of the G-5 earlier in the week.

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