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Jos DirceuJos Dirceu de Oliveira e Silva was born on March 16, 1946. He is married and has three children. With a law degree from the Pontifical Catholic University of So Paulo (PUC-SP), he served as state deputy from 1987 to 1991 (SP-PT) and federal deputy from 1991 to 1995 (SP-PT) and, again, from 1999 to 2003 (SP-PT). Dirceu held numerous posts in the Workers Party (PT), including the presidency of the National Executive between 1995 and 1997. In 1989 he coordinated Luiz Incio Lula da Silvas first presidential campaign for the party. He exercised various parliamentary activities in municipal councils, state legislative assemblies, and the legislative chamber of the Federal District. Among them, he was a member of the Finance and Budget Commission and vice-president of the Public Safety Commission. In consequence of his militancy in the student movement, Dirceu was arrested at the 1969 Congress of the National Student Union (UNE), deprived of his nationality, and banned from the country. While in exile, he worked and studied in Cuba. He returned to Brazil when amnesty was instituted. He played an active role in the movement to amnesty those tried and convinced for political activities and in the coordination of the Direct Elections Now campaign in 1984 on behalf of direct presidential elections. As state deputy, he gained recognition for monitoring the government of the state of So Paulo. It's not hard to understand why Lula's Chief of Staff, Jos Dirceu, got emotional and cried when hugged by Fidel Castro. Dirceu was the president of UNE (Unio Nacional dos EstudantesNational Union of Students) on October 1968, when he was imprisoned by the military government with other student leaders while trying to clandestinely hold the 30th UNE Congress.
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