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Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

President of Brazil (2003–2011; since 2023)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 27, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, known mononymously as Lula, is a Brazilian politician, trade unionist and former metalworker who has served as president of Brazil since 2023 and from 2003 to 2011. He is a member of the Workers' Party.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva” is president of Brazil (2003–2011; since 2023). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Luiz, Inácio and Lula, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2023, 2003, 2011—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Luiz, Inácio and Lula is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “president of Brazil (2003–2011; since 2023)” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 27, 2026. The first chronological checks are 2023, 2003 and 2011.

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This entry incorporates text from “Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.