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A long time ago I learned not to put the blame for backwardness in Brazil on the US. We have to blame ourselves. Our backwardness is caused by an elite which for a century didn't think about the majority and subordinated itself to foreign interests.

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

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Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: October 27
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