Marina Silva
| Marina Silva | |
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| Senator from Acre | |
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In office 13 May 2008 – 1 February 2011 (reassumed) |
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| Preceded by | Sibá Machado |
| Succeeded by | Jorge Viana |
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In office 1 February 1995 – 1 January 2003 (licensed) |
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| Preceded by | Aluísio Bezerra |
| Succeeded by | Sibá Machado |
| Minister of the Environment | |
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In office 1 January 2003 – 13 May 2008 |
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| President | Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva |
| Preceded by | José Carlos Carvalho |
| Succeeded by | Carlos Minc |
| State Deputy of Acre | |
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In office 1 January 1991 – 1 January 1995 |
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| Alderwoman of Rio Branco | |
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In office 1 January 1989 – 1 January 1991 |
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| Personal details | |
| Born |
Maria Osmarina Marina Silva Vaz de Lima 8 February 1958 Rio Branco, Brazil |
| Political party |
Workers' Party (1986–2009) Green Party (2009–2011) Independent (2011–2013) Socialist Party (2013–2015) Sustainability Network (2015–present) |
| Spouse(s) | Fábio Vaz de Lima (1986–present) |
| Children | Shalon Danilo Moara Mayara |
| Alma mater | Federal University of Acre |
| Religion | Pentecostalism |
Maria Osmarina Marina Silva Vaz de Lima (born 8 February 1958) is a Brazilian politician. Silva was a colleague of Chico Mendes, who was assassinated for defending the Amazon environment. She was a member of the Worker's Party (PT) until 19 August 2009 and served as a senator before becoming environmental minister in 2003. In 1996, Silva won the Goldman Environmental Prize for South & Central America. In 2007, the United Nations Environment Program named her one of the Champions of the Earth and the 2009 Sophie Prize. Running in the 2010 Brazilian elections for the Green Party (PV), she earned 19.33% of the popular votes.
In 2010, she, along with Cécile Duflot, Monica Frassoni, Elizabeth May and Renate Künast, were named by Foreign Policy magazine to its list of top global thinkers, for taking Green mainstream. In 2012 she was one of the eight people chosen to carry the flag into opening ceremony of the London Olympic Games.
In April 2014, Eduardo Campos announced his candidacy for the October presidential election, naming Marina Silva as his vice presidential candidate. After Campos's death in a plane crash on 13 August, she was selected to run as the Socialist Party's candidate for the presidency. In December 2014, Marina Silva was elected by the British Financial Times newspaper as one of its Women of the Year.
Marina Silva was born Maria Osmarina da Silva in the small village of Breu Velho, 70 km outside Rio Branco, Acre. Silva is a descendant of Portuguese and black African ancestors in both her maternal and paternal lines. She was one of eleven children in a community of rubber tappers on the Bagaço rubber tree plantation (Portuguese Seringal Bagaço), in the western state of Acre. Growing up, she survived five bouts of malaria in addition to cases of hepatitis and metal poisoning.
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