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...Gil Castello Branco of Contas Abertas, an NGO that scrutinises the public accounts, linked the looser rules with municipal elections due in October....
...Gil Castello Branco, Open Accounts’ secretary-general, said this was equivalent to six times the size of Brazil’s environmental budget....
...But for Laguna, its musicians were paramount, including Gilberto Gil — later culture minister under Lula da Silva’s first administration — who helped bring black consciousness to Brazil (where slavery was...
...Vasconcelos The São Paulo Tapes (Mônica Vasconcelos) In 1969, the Brazilian singer Caetano Veloso was arrested by the military dictatorship and exiled, along with his fellow Tropicalia singer Gilberto Gil...
...In Brazil, the imprisonment of former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has thrown the field wide open....
...The show involved months of political infighting and media attention, with former president and mentor Lula da Silva turning against Ms Rousseff’s policies — while singers Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil...
...In a recent appearance, she joined on a stage in Rio de Janeiro great Brazilian musician Gilberto Gil, who sang a song specially written for her....
...Other famous sons of the region include former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, whose family moved from Pernambuco to São Paulo when he was a boy....
...This is almost a tradition in Brazil, where senior politicians often come from unusual backgrounds – Gilberto Gil, the musician, recently served as minister of culture....
...appetite for ideas, that must have stood him in good stead during the time when his political ideals were put to the test: from 2003 to 2008 he served as Brazil’s minister of culture under president Lula da Silva...
...Ms Rousseff has chosen no such private sector leaders, nor other stars such as Gilberto Gil, a pop singer who was Mr Lula da Silva’s first minister of culture....
...Since Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva took office as president in 2003, some 24m Brazilians have escaped absolute poverty and 31m have progressed to the middle class, according to government figures....
...Gil Castello Branco of Contas Abertas, a consultancy that analyses public spending, says the government has struggled to kickstart investment after years of neglect....
...Critics, including President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, say environmental agencies take far too long to grant or deny licences....
...He is now the country’s minister of culture, appointed by Brazil’s president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in 2003. “Lula has been gentle with me,” Gil quipped, “he’s allowed me to do some music.”...
...But now the biggest software giant of all has struck back, via what might be called the soft underbelly of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's cabinet - Gilberto Gil, Brazil's culture minister and one...
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