Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva best known as Lula, is a Brazilian politician, trade unionist and the president-elect of Brazil. He will become the 39th president of Brazil in 2023, and previously served as the 35th president from 2003 to 2010.
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He was born on 27 October 1945 in Caetés (then a district of Garanhuns), located 250 km (150 miles) from Recife, capital of Pernambuco, a state in the Northeast of Brazil.
Lula was the seventh of eight children of his parents Aristides Inácio da Silva and Eurídice Ferreira de Melo.
Lula’s mother was of Portuguese and partial Italian descent.
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Two weeks after his birth, his father moved to Santos, São Paulo, with Valdomira Ferreira de Góis, a cousin of Eurídice.
In December 1952, when Lula was seven years old, his mother moved the family to São Paulo to rejoin her husband.
However, after a journey of 13 days in a pau-de-arara (open truck bed), they arrived in Guarujá and discovered that Aristides had formed a second family with Valdomira.
Aristides’s two families lived in the same house for some time, but they did not get along very well.
Four years later, Eurídice moved with her children to a small room behind a bar in São Paulo.
After that, Lula rarely saw his father, who died an alcoholic in 1978.
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