Below you will find details of Brazil’s former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva international agenda in 2014. To see details of his trips in other years, click here .
TRIPS AND ACTIVITIES IN 2014
- Country: USA (New York) Date: February 1012, 2014
Activities:
– Meeting with former US President Bill Clinton (February 11, 2014)
– Meeting with President of the Inter-American Development Bank, Luis Alberto Moreno (February 11, 2014)
– Meeting with leadership of Ford: Mark Fields (Director of
operations), Stephen Biegun (Vice-Pres. of International Governmental
Relations) and Rogelio Golfarb (President for the Americas) (February
11, 2014)
– Meeting with Brazilian Ambassador in the USA: Antonio Patriota
(UN); Ana Lucy Cabral (consul in New York) and Frederico Araujo (Consul
in Boston) (February 11, 2014)
– Visit to the New York Times, followed by interview.
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Country: Uruguay (Montevideo) Date: February 17–18, 2014
Activities:
– Dinner at the invitation of the President of Uruguay, Pepe Mujica (February 17, 2014)
– Meeting with the Brazilian Ambassador in Montevideo, João Carlos Souza-Garcia
– Lunch with the former President of Uruguay, Tabaré Vázquez (February 18, 2014)
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Country: Cuba (Havana) Date: February 22 – 27, 2014
Activities:
Cuba (Mariel)
– Visit to the Mariel Port (February 25, 2014)
Cuba (Havana)
– Meeting with the President of Cuba, Raul Castro (February 25, 2014)
– Meeting with Ex-President Fidel Castro (February 25, 2014)
– Visit to the Cubasoy farm with Senator Blairo Maggi (February 26, 2014)
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Country: Italy (Rome) Date: March 10–12, 2014
Activities:
– Meeting with Brazil’s Ambassador in Rome, Ricardo Neiva Tavares
– Lunch with Prime Minister of the Republic of Italy, Matteo Renzi (March 12, 2014)
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Country: Spain (Bilbao) Date: March 26-28, 2014
Activities:
– Meeting with Brazil’s Ambassador in Madrid, Paulo Campos
– Meeting with the President of the Basque Government o Lehendakari, Don Iñigo Urkullu (March 27, 2014)
Activities:
Spain (Salamanca)
– Meeting with the Rector of the University of Salamanca, Prof. Daniel Hernández Ruipérez (April 23, 2014)
– Meeting with Brazil’s Ambassador in Madrid, Paulo Campos
– Ceremony of the Award of Honorary doctorate – University of Salamanca to former President Lula (April 23, 2014)
– Seminar for Brazilian students in the program “Science without Borders” at the University of Salamanca (April 23, 2014)
Portugal (Lisbon)
– Meeting with President of Portugal Anibal Cavaco Silva and Prime Minister of Portugal Passos Coelho (April 24, 2014)
– Interview with journalist Cristina Edwards, RTP
– Meeting with the Brazilian Ambassador in Lisbon, Mario Nasim
– Lecture for the 40-year anniversary of the Revolution of the
Flowers, organized by the Portuguese Socialist Party and former
President and former Prime Minister of Portugal, Mario Soares, on the
topic: The April 25 Revolution Seen from the Outside” (April 25, 2014)
– Lunch with former President and former Prime Minister, Mário
Soares, and Dominique Pouchin (French intellectual, who lived in the
Portugal during the April 25 Revolution in April 1974), the former Prime
Minister of Italy, Massimo D’alema (current President of the European
Progressive Studies Foundation, FEPS), Ernst Stetter (Director of FEPS)
and leaders of European Socialist parties (April 25, 2014)
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Angola (Luanda and Cacuso) / Nigeria (Abuja) Date: May 5–9, 2014
Activities:
Angola (Cacuso)
– Visit to SENAI Vocational Education School (May 6, 2014)
– Visit to the core of the family agriculture program of the Government of Angola-Capanda agro-industrial complex. (May 6, 2014)
– Interview with Jornal de Angola
– Trip to Biocom Plant
Angola (Luanda)
– Meeting with the Ambassador of Brazil in Luanda, Maria Serdar Fontenele Kings
– Meeting with the President of Angola José Eduardo Santos (May 7, 2014)
– Meet with members of the Brazilian community
Nigeria (Abuja) (May 7, 2014)
– Participated in the “World Economic Forum on Africa” (May 8, 2014), in two seminars:
1: “Conversation with Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva”, with Carlos Lopes, Secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Africa, and
2: “Meeting with young entrepreneurs”
– Meeting with the President of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan (May 8, 2014)
– Meeting with the President of Benin, Boni Yayi (May 8, 2014)
– Meeting with the Secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Africa, Carlos Lopes (May 8, 2014)
– Meeting with authorities attending the event (May 8, 2014)
– Meeting with the Ambassador of Brazil in Abuja, John André Lima
– Meeting with President of the World Economic Forum, Klaus Schwab (May 9, 2014)
- Country: Bolivia (Santa Cruz de La Sierra) Date: May 21-22, 2014
Activities:
– Ceremony for the Award of title of Doctor Honoris Causa of the Universidad de Aquino Bolivia (UDABOL) (May 21, 2014)
– Meeting with Consul of Brazil in Santa Cruz, Colbert Soares (May 21, 2014)
– Participation in the preparation Seminar for the UN Conference on
“Climate Change: an Economy and a Society for Living Well”, Opening by
Ambassador Politics Ferreira; Ex-President Lula and President of the
Plurinational State of Bolivia, Evo Morales (May 22, 2014)
– Meeting with President Evo Morales (May 22, 2014)
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Country: Ecuador (Guayaquil) Date: December 3–5, 2014
Activities:
– Participation in the “Seminar on the Integration and Convergence of
South America”, organized by the Government of Ecuador and the Lula
Institute (December 3, 2014)
– Meeting with President of Ecuador, Rafael Correa (12/4/13)
– Meeting with Ernesto Samper, Secretary General of Unasur and former President of Colombia. (December 4, 2014)
