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Marina Silva

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Maria Osmarina Marina Silva Vaz de Lima (born 8 February 1958) is a Brazilian politician. [1]

88 relations: A Privataria Tucana, Aécio Neves, Abortion, Acre (state), Agribusiness, Aldo Rebelo, Amazon basin, Anthony Garotinho, Aristocracy (class), Assemblies of God, BBC News, Biofuel, Black people, Brazil, Brazilian Army, Brazilian general election, 2010, Brazilian general election, 2014, Brazilian general election, 2018, Brazilian presidential election, 2010, Brazilian Social Democracy Party, Brazilian Socialist Party, Carlos Minc, Catholic Church, Cécile Duflot, Champions of the Earth, Chico Mendes, Chinadialogue.net, Deforestation, Deforestation of the Amazon rainforest, Dilma Rousseff, Eduardo Campos, Eduardo Jorge, Elizabeth May, Evangelicalism, Federal Highway Police, Federal Police of Brazil, Federal Senate, Federal University of Acre, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Financial Times, Foreign Policy, Goldman Environmental Prize, Green Party (Brazil), Green politics, Greenpeace, House of Windsor, Independent politician, Inter Press Service, Inter-American Dialogue, International Olympic Committee, ..., Itaituba, José Serra, Legality of cannabis, Legislative Assemblies of Brazilian states, Literacy, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Mensalão scandal, Ministry of the Environment (Brazil), Monica Frassoni, O Globo, Olympic symbols, Politics of Brazil, Portuguese language, Portuguese people, President of Brazil, Quality of life, Rainforest, Referendum, Renate Künast, Rio Branco, Acre, Rio de Janeiro (state), Roberto Mangabeira Unger, Rubber tapping, Same-sex marriage, Santos, São Paulo, São Francisco River, São Paulo, Silas Malafaia, Sophie Prize, Standard-bearer, Superior Electoral Court, Sustainability Network, Sustainable development, The Guardian, Time (magazine), Veja (magazine), Workers' Party (Brazil), 2012 Summer Olympics. Expand index (38 more) »

A Privataria Tucana

A Privataria Tucana is a book written by journalist Amaury Ribeiro Jr. Ribeiro Jr.

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Aécio Neves

Aécio Neves da Cunha (born 10 March 1960) is a Brazilian economist, politician and former president of the Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB).

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Abortion

Abortion is the ending of pregnancy by removing an embryo or fetus before it can survive outside the uterus.

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Acre (state)

Acre is a state located in the northern region of Brazil.

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Agribusiness

Agribusiness is the business of agricultural production.

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Aldo Rebelo

José Aldo Rebelo Figueiredo (born 23 February 1956 in Viçosa) is a Brazilian politician, member of the Solidariedade (SD) and a federal deputy elected by the state of São Paulo.

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Amazon basin

The Amazon basin is the part of South America drained by the Amazon River and its tributaries.

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Anthony Garotinho

Anthony William Matheus de Oliveira (born in Campos dos Goytacazes, Rio de Janeiro, 1960), also known as Anthony Garotinho, is a Brazilian politician, radialist and convicted felon.

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Aristocracy (class)

The aristocracy is a social class that a particular society considers its highest order.

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Assemblies of God

The Assemblies of God (AG), officially the World Assemblies of God Fellowship, is a group of over 140 autonomous but loosely associated national groupings of churches which together form the world's largest Pentecostal denomination.

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BBC News

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs.

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Biofuel

A biofuel is a fuel that is produced through contemporary biological processes, such as agriculture and anaerobic digestion, rather than a fuel produced by geological processes such as those involved in the formation of fossil fuels, such as coal and petroleum, from prehistoric biological matter.

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Black people

Black people is a term used in certain countries, often in socially based systems of racial classification or of ethnicity, to describe persons who are perceived to be dark-skinned compared to other populations.

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Brazil

Brazil (Brasil), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (República Federativa do Brasil), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America.

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Brazilian Army

The Brazilian Army (Exército Brasileiro) is the land arm of the Brazilian Armed Forces.

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Brazilian general election, 2010

The first round of the Brazilian general election of 2010 was held on Sunday, October 3, 2010.

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Brazilian general election, 2014

General elections were held in Brazil on 5 October 2014 to elect the President, the National Congress, state governors and state legislatures.

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Brazilian general election, 2018

General elections are scheduled to be held in Brazil in October 2018 to elect the President and Vice President, the National Congress, state Governors and Vice Governors and state Legislative Assemblies.

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Brazilian presidential election, 2010

The Brazilian presidential election was held in 2010 with two rounds of balloting.

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Brazilian Social Democracy Party

The Brazilian Social Democracy Party (Partido da Social Democracia Brasileira, PSDB, also translated as "Party of Brazilian Social Democracy" or "Brazilian Social Democratic Party") is a centrist political party in Brazil.

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Brazilian Socialist Party

The Brazilian Socialist Party (Partido Socialista Brasileiro, PSB) is a political party in Brazil.

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Carlos Minc

Carlos Minc Baumfeld (born July 12, 1951) is a Brazilian geographer, professor, environmentalist, politician and Minister of Environment in Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's second term as president of Brazil.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with more than 1.299 billion members worldwide.

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Cécile Duflot

Cécile Duflot (born 1 April 1975) is a French politician.

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Champions of the Earth

The United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) established Champions of the Earth in 2005 as an annual awards programme to recognize outstanding environmental leaders from the public and private sectors, and from civil society.

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Chico Mendes

Francisco Alves Mendes Filho, better known as Chico Mendes (December 15, 1944 – December 22, 1988), was a Brazilian rubber tapper, trade union leader and environmentalist.

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Chinadialogue.net

Chinadialogue.net (中外对话) is an independent, non-profit organisation based in London and Beijing.

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Deforestation

Deforestation, clearance, or clearing is the removal of a forest or stand of trees where the land is thereafter converted to a non-forest use.

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Deforestation of the Amazon rainforest

The cattle sector of the Brazilian Amazon, incentivized by the international beef and leather trades,Lucy Siegle (August 9, 2015).

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Dilma Rousseff

Dilma Vana Rousseff (often known mononymously as Dilma; born 14 December 1947) is a Brazilian economist and politician who served as the 36th President of Brazil, holding the position from 2011 until her impeachment and removal from office on 31 August 2016, becoming the first democratically-elected female President in the world to be impeached and removed.

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Eduardo Campos

Eduardo Henrique Accioly Campos (10 August 1965 – 13 August 2014) was a Brazilian congressman and governor.

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Eduardo Jorge

Eduardo Jorge Martins Alves Sobrinho (born 26 October 1949), most known simply as Eduardo Jorge, is a Brazilian public health physician and politician.

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Elizabeth May

Elizabeth Evans May (born June 9, 1954) is an American-born Canadian politician.

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Evangelicalism

Evangelicalism, evangelical Christianity, or evangelical Protestantism, is a worldwide, crossdenominational movement within Protestant Christianity which maintains the belief that the essence of the Gospel consists of the doctrine of salvation by grace through faith in Jesus Christ's atonement.

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Federal Highway Police

The Brazilian Federal Highway Police (Polícia Rodoviária Federal or PRF) is a federal highway patrol, subordinate to the Ministry of Justice, whose main function is fighting crime on Brazilian federal roads and highways, as well as monitoring and supervising vehicular traffic, although it has also taken on duties that go beyond its original authority, such as action within Brazilian cities and forests in conjunction with other public safety agencies.

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Federal Police of Brazil

The Federal Police of Brazil (Portuguese: Polícia Federal) is a federal law enforcement agency of Brazil and one of its three federal police forces.

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Federal Senate

The Federal Senate (Senado Federal) is the upper house of the National Congress of Brazil.

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Federal University of Acre

The Federal University of Acre (Universidade Federal do Acre, UFAC) is a Brazilian university with headquarters in Rio Branco, Acre.

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Fernando Henrique Cardoso

Fernando Henrique Cardoso (born June 18, 1931), also known by his initials FHC, is a Brazilian sociologist, professor and politician who served as the 34th President of Brazil from January 1, 1995 to January 1, 2003.

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Financial Times

The Financial Times (FT) is a Japanese-owned (since 2015), English-language international daily newspaper headquartered in London, with a special emphasis on business and economic news.

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Foreign Policy

Foreign Policy is an American news publication, founded in 1970 and focused on global affairs, current events, and domestic and international policy.

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Goldman Environmental Prize

The Goldman Environmental Prize is a prize awarded annually to grassroots environmental activists, one from each of the world's six geographic regions: Africa, Asia, Europe, Islands and Island Nations, North America, and South and Central America.

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Green Party (Brazil)

The Brazilian Green Party (Partido Verde, PV) was constituted after the military dictatorship period and, like other Green Parties around the world, is committed to establishing a set of policies on ensuring social-equity and sustainable development.

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Green politics

Green politics (also known as ecopolitics) is a political ideology that aims to create an ecologically sustainable society rooted in environmentalism, nonviolence, social justice and grassroots democracy.

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Greenpeace

Greenpeace is a non-governmental environmental organization with offices in over 39 countries and with an international coordinating body in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

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House of Windsor

The House of Windsor is the reigning royal house of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms.

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Independent politician

An independent or nonpartisan politician is an individual politician not affiliated with any political party.

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Inter Press Service

Inter Press Service (IPS) is a global news agency.

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Inter-American Dialogue

The Inter-American Dialogue (also the Dialogue or IAD) is a U.S.-based think tank in the field of international affairs primarily related to the Western Hemisphere.

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International Olympic Committee

The International Olympic Committee (IOC; French: Comité International Olympique, CIO) is a Swiss private non-governmental organisation based in Lausanne, Switzerland, which is the authority responsible for the modern Olympic Games.

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Itaituba

Itaituba is a city and municipality located in the state of Pará, Brazil, and one of the most important socioeconomic centers in the western region of the State.

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José Serra

José Serra (born March 19, 1942) is a Brazilian politician who has served as a Congressman, Senator, Minister of Planning, Minister of Health, Mayor of São Paulo, Governor of São Paulo state, and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Brazil.

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Legality of cannabis

The legality of cannabis for general or recreational use varies from country to country.

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Legislative Assemblies of Brazilian states

In Brazil, a Legislative Assembly is the state-level legislature.

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Literacy

Literacy is traditionally meant as the ability to read and write.

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Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (born 27 October 1945), popularly known as Lula, is a Brazilian politician and former union leader, who served as the 35th President of Brazil from 2003 to 2011.

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Mensalão scandal

The Mensalão scandal (Escândalo do Mensalão) was a vote-buying scandal that threatened to bring down the government of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in 2005.

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Ministry of the Environment (Brazil)

The Ministry of Environment (Ministério do Meio Ambiente, abbreviated MMA) is a cabinet-level federal ministry in Brazil.

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Monica Frassoni

Monica Frassoni (born 10 September 1963, in Veracruz, Mexico) is an Italian politician who has been co-chair of the European Green Party since 2009.

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O Globo

O Globo (The Globe) is a Brazilian newspaper based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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Olympic symbols

The Olympic symbols are icons, flags and symbols used by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to elevate the Olympic Games.

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Politics of Brazil

The politics of Brazil take place in a framework of a federal presidential representative democratic republic, whereby the President is both head of state and head of government, and of a multi-party system.

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Portuguese language

Portuguese (português or, in full, língua portuguesa) is a Western Romance language originating from the regions of Galicia and northern Portugal in the 9th century.

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Portuguese people

Portuguese people are an ethnic group indigenous to Portugal that share a common Portuguese culture and speak Portuguese.

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President of Brazil

The President of Brazil, officially the President of the Federative Republic of Brazil (Presidente da República Federativa do Brasil) or simply the President of the Republic, is both the head of state and the head of government of the Federative Republic of Brazil.

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Quality of life

Quality of life (QOL) is the general well-being of individuals and societies, outlining negative and positive features of life.

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Rainforest

Rainforests are forests characterized by high rainfall, with annual rainfall in the case of tropical rainforests between, and definitions varying by region for temperate rainforests.

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Referendum

A referendum (plural: referendums or referenda) is a direct vote in which an entire electorate is invited to vote on a particular proposal.

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Renate Künast

Renate Elly Künast (born 15 December 1955) is a German politician of Alliance '90/The Greens.

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Rio Branco, Acre

Rio Branco (White River) is a Brazilian municipality, capital of the state of Acre.

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Rio de Janeiro (state)

Rio de Janeiro is one of the 27 federative units of Brazil.

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Roberto Mangabeira Unger

Roberto Mangabeira Unger (born 24 March 1947) is a philosopher and politician.

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Rubber tapping

Rubber tapping is the process by which latex is collected from a rubber tree.

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Same-sex marriage

Same-sex marriage (also known as gay marriage) is the marriage of a same-sex couple, entered into in a civil or religious ceremony.

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Santos, São Paulo

Santos (Saints) is a municipality in the Brazilian state of São Paulo, founded in 1546 by the Portuguese nobleman Brás Cubas.

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São Francisco River

The São Francisco River or Rio São Francisco is a river in Brazil.

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São Paulo

São Paulo is a municipality in the southeast region of Brazil.

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Silas Malafaia

Silas Malafaia (born 14 September 1958) is a Brazilian evangelical pastor, author and televangelist, who also has a degree in Psychology.

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Sophie Prize

The Sophie Prize was an international environment and development prize (USD 100,000) awarded annually from 1998 to 2013.

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Standard-bearer

A standard-bearer is a person (soldier or civilian) who bears an emblem called or standard, i.e. either a type of flag or an inflexible but mobile image, which is used (and often honoured) as a formal, visual symbol of a state, prince, military unit, etc.

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Superior Electoral Court

The Superior Electoral Court (Tribunal Superior Eleitoral, TSE) is the highest body of the Brazilian Electoral Justice, which also comprises one Regional Electoral Court (Tribunal Regional Eleitoral, TRE) in each of the 26 states and the Federal District of the country, as determined by Article 118 of the Constitution of Brazil.

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Sustainability Network

The Sustainability Network (Rede Sustentabilidade) is a Brazilian political party founded in 2013 by Marina Silva, a former presidential candidate.

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Sustainable development

Sustainable development is the organizing principle for meeting human development goals while at the same time sustaining the ability of natural systems to provide the natural resources and ecosystem services upon which the economy and society depend.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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Time (magazine)

Time is an American weekly news magazine and news website published in New York City.

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Veja (magazine)

Veja (English: see, look) is a Brazilian weekly news magazine published in São Paulo and distributed throughout the country by media conglomerate Grupo Abril.

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Workers' Party (Brazil)

The Workers' Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores, PT) is a political party in Brazil.

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2012 Summer Olympics

The 2012 Summer Olympics, formally the Games of the XXX Olympiad and commonly known as London 2012, was an international multi-sport event that was held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, United Kingdom.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marina_Silva

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