Tag: Lula da Silva

• Wednesday, February 8th 2012 - 22:08 UTC

  Brazil celebrating unconfirmed report that Lula da Silva is free of cancer

  

  A piece of news in a Brazilian website on Wednesday today caused a wave of reactions and expectations when it declared sources close to the medical team treating former Brazilian President Lula da Silva for a throat cancer said he is free of the disease.

• Wednesday, January 25th 2012 - 03:52 UTC

  Lula da Silva back on the political stage next to President Dilma Rousseff

  

  Former Brazilian president Lula da Silva currently undergoing treatment for larynx cancer, returned on Tuesday to the political stage after three months of absence, for the inauguration ceremony of two new ministers from the cabinet of President Dilma Rousseff

• Wednesday, January 18th 2012 - 05:31 UTC

  Mujica and Lula da Silva discuss promoting regional integration as a doctrine

  

  Uruguayan president Jose Mujica and former leader Lula da Silva, under treatment for larynx cancer, said in Sao Paulo on Tuesday that they would like to have a group of Latin American intellectuals involved in the discussion and promotion of regional integration as a doctrine.

• Friday, January 6th 2012 - 06:58 UTC

  Hillary Clinton, Lula da Silva, Chavez closely following CFK recovery evolution

  

  The US Government said they are closely following the evolution of President Cristina Fernández health after she underwent surgery to remove a thyroid tumour, and highlighted the Argentine leader’s “very good” relationship with Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton.

• Thursday, December 29th 2011 - 21:50 UTC

  Dilma in her first year is proving to be an Iron Lady loved by the middle class

  

  Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff will be celebrating on Sunday her first of four years in office with a record public opinion support of 72%, based on a sober and firm style in running what has become the world’s sixth largest economy.

• Thursday, December 22nd 2011 - 05:13 UTC

  Brazil’s President Rousseff ends her first year with a popularity of 73%

  

  Brazil’s first woman president Dilma Rousseff popularity climbed in December to reach 72%, almost the same level, 73%, when she took office January first 2011, according to a public opinion poll from Ibope released earlier this week.

• Tuesday, December 13th 2011 - 06:47 UTC

  Doctors impressed with Lula da Silva’s response to chemotherapy

  

  Doctors in charge of throat cancer treatment for former Brazilian President Lula da Silva called his response to chemotherapy “impressive” and said the tumour in his larynx had shrunk by 75% in size.

• Thursday, November 17th 2011 - 00:40 UTC

  New look for Lula da Silva as he undergoes chemotherapy treatment

  

  Brazil's ex-president Lula da Silva got a new look Wednesday, as his wife Marisa Leticia shaved off his iconic beard and his thick head of hair ahead of chemotherapy therapy for throat cancer.

• Thursday, November 3rd 2011 - 01:44 UTC

  Lula undergoes cancer treatment; calls Brazilians to support President Rousseff

  

  Former Brazilian President Lula da Silva, one of the most popular figures in Brazil vowed in a video posted on YouTube to beat his recently diagnosed throat cancer.

• Wednesday, November 2nd 2011 - 20:54 UTC

  Brazil receives 8bn dollars loan to lift another 16 million people from ‘misery’

  

  Brazil will receive 8 billion dollars in financing from the World Bank to push its campaign to uproot extreme hardship deeper into some of the country's poorest areas, the bank said on Wednesday.