Brazilian President Lula wept, and all leaders who put their people in their hearts deserve respect.
As the saying goes, men don't flick tears.
But this time, Brazilian President Lula wept, and it was publicly.
The picture shows Lula crying
Reuters reported on November 10 that Lula, who is about to take the post of Brazil's new president, talked about the most pressing problems facing Brazil when meeting with political allies in Brasilia, Lula said: "I hope that after the end of my four-year term, every Brazilian can enjoy three meals a day, then my mission is completed." ”
When he said this, Lula's emotions were very emotional for a while, his eyes were red, and he couldn't stop tearing, and he had to stop talking and wipe the tears from his eyes with his hand.
After calming down a bit, Lula continued: "I never expected the country to fall into hunger again, and when I left the presidency in 2010, I thought that Brazil would be on the same level as Britain or France for the next 10 years.
I believe Lula shed real tears.
You know, during his two presidential terms in 2002 and 2006, Lula made poverty eradication his main governing goal, and he introduced a series of social welfare policies that achieved great success, Brazil's people's livelihood has gradually improved, nearly 20 million people have been lifted out of extreme poverty, and in 2014, the United Nations also removed Brazil from the hunger map. During this period, Brazil also developed its oil and mining industries, tripling its per capita GDP and placing Brazil among the world's top seven economies.
In 2006, Brazil, together with the foreign ministers of China, India and Russia, promoted the establishment of the BRICS cooperation mechanism during the session of the General Assembly; In 2008, the G7 developed into the G20, and Brazil also had a place; In addition, on October 3, 2009, the International Olympic Committee announced that Rio de Janeiro had won the right to host the 2016 Summer Olympic Games, which brought Brazil the attention of the world; During his eight years in power, Lula achieved unprecedented results in both domestic and foreign affairs, so much so that when he left his second term, he still became one of the most popular politicians in Brazilian history with 83% of the vote.
Pictured is a slum in Brazil
But in recent years, Brazilians seem to have returned to the past due to inflation and the pandemic. According to a survey by Latin Americans, after 2020, 5.4 million people in Brazil have been newly destitutely poor, and a total of 33.1 million people do not have enough to eat, and more than 125 million people do not know whether they can eat three meals a day.
In the face of the situation that Brazil needs to fight hunger, it is no wonder that Lula will burst into tears on the spot, 12 years ago, he thought that the current Brazil would be the same as European countries, who knows, they can't even solve the problem of food and clothing, there is really a sense of heroic twilight of "ten years of achievement, ruined in a moment".
So, at a meeting with political allies, Lula made a vow to Brazilians: Four years later, he would make everyone eat three meals a day. In fact, for such a big country as Brazil, the goal set by Lula is really humble, but this is a practical problem that the current Brazilian leaders have to face, which may also reflect Lula's down-to-earth and simple personality.
On the day of the speech, Lula also reposted the news of his tears and posted: "Hunger torments my soul, because I know what it is, and I also know that we will end hunger again." ”
Well, after talking about the reason why Lula burst into tears, if you are also moved, you may wish to watch the video of Lula's speech, in the process of listening to his emotional speech, if you pay a little attention, you will find a detail, his left hand does not have a little finger.
Lula was not born without a little finger, and this lost little finger is the mark of his ordeal over the past 77 years.
On October 27, 1945, Lula was born in an extremely poor peasant family, with a total of eight siblings, he was the seventh oldest, and when he was in the fifth grade of primary school, he dropped out of school because of poverty, and later, Lula, who had only a primary education, began to shine shoes for others, work, and earn a living for himself.
Even though life was so difficult, fate was still cruel to him, after his father abandoned the family, Lula had to follow his mother and 7 siblings to the Brazilian port city of Santos, where there were more job opportunities, Lula began to work as a lathe worker, during work, an accidental work injury caused him to lose the little finger of his left hand, but the most painful thing for him was when he was 25 years old, he witnessed the death of his wife who was eight months pregnant. The hardships of life and the ups and downs of fate made Lula completely mature, he stood on the opposite side of the junta, gradually grew from an activist in the labor movement to a trade union leader, became an anti-junta rule and "spokesperson for the bottom".
In 1980, the Brazilian Workers' Party was founded with Lula as its chairman, and five years later, the Workers' Party and other forces overthrew the junta, and Lula, who had experienced many hardships, began to rise to prominence in politics, but in the next three presidential elections, Lula failed to do so.
Three consecutive defeats in elections made the Lula-led Workers' Party begin to reflect on its policy ideas, and later Lula cut off his beard, changed into a suit, and his policy position began to shift in a pragmatic direction to benefit more middle and lower classes. In 2002, Lula defeated the opposition Social Democratic Party candidate by overwhelming votes, becoming Brazil's first working-born president, and was successfully re-elected in 2006.
In 2009, UNESCO also awarded Lula the Félix Houphou Eboigny Peace Prize for his outstanding contribution to the eradication of poverty in Brazil.
But such a legend is not perfect.
The picture shows Lula turning himself in
After 2010, Brazilian politics began to change dramatically, with left-right parties intensifying, and Lula himself felt betrayed by many of his supporters because he was accused of corruption. In 2015, Lula missed Brazil's 2018 presidential election after being involved in an oil company corruption case and later spent nearly 600 days in prison before being rehabilitated.
Pictured is Bolsonaro
It is worth mentioning that the judge who convicted Lula was later quickly promoted by Bolsonaro, who also won easily because he lost his biggest competitor in 2018. Therefore, Lula's alleged corruption does not rule out the suspicion of political persecution.
We often say that suffering can change a person, and a person can affect a country, an era, Lula is returning from a long sail and about to start his third presidential term, which is a good thing for the Brazilian people, and for us, every leader who has the people in his heart deserves respect.
Well, the story of "Son of Brazil" is over, and finally the editor wants to say, "the highest to tomorrow and the moon, the closest relatives to the Americas", the return of Brazil's left-wing forces will bring new changes not only to Brazil, but also to Latin America and even to the world political pattern, and the loss of US hegemony is happening in his "backyard" in the most profound and irreversible way.