CONGRATULATIONS TO MINISTER BARBOSA AND ALSO OUR BRAZILIAN DEMOCRACY FORTHE 2013 TIME100 LIST
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TIME presents its annual list of the 100 most influential people in the
world, from artists and leaders to pioneers, titans and icons
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Joaquim Barbosa
Jurist, 58
By Sarah Cleveland April
18, 2013
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The face on the most popular Carnival mask in
Brazil this year isn’t of a soccer player or pop star. It’s Joaquim Benedito
Barbosa Gomes, a jurist who last year presided over the country’s largest
political-corruption trial and then became the first black president of
Brazil’s Supreme Court. Brazilians choose masks as a sign of honor. They honor
Barbosa because in a country that imported more slaves than any other in the
Americas and where nearly half the 195 million people identify as black or
mixed race, he symbolizes the promise of a new Brazil committed to
multiculturalism and equality.
One of eight children born to a bricklayer,
Barbosa saw education as his ticket out of poverty and worked as a cleaner and
a typesetter in the Senate to support himself in law school. He ultimately
obtained a doctorate from the Sorbonne, learned four foreign languages and
served as a visiting scholar at Columbia Law School’s Human Rights Institute.
Barbosa does not shy away from controversy.
In a Catholic country with entrenched racial inequalities, he is a champion of
affirmative action and abortion. Once during televised proceedings, he accused
the court’s then president of destroying justice with notorious delays.
Barbosa was appointed to the Supreme Court in
2003 by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who had pledged to help the
underprivileged and improve racial equality. The fiercely independent jurist
apparently did not feel indebted. In the face of a long tradition of judicially
tolerated corruption, he oversaw a landmark trial involving a $35 million
vote-buying scheme that last fall convicted many of Lula’s closest associates.
Hailed by one Brazilian newsweekly as “the poor boy who changed Brazil,”
Barbosa was sworn in as president of the court a month later.
Cleveland is a Columbia Law School professor
Barbosa é
eleito por revista como um dos 100 mais influentes do mundo
Segundo publicação, presidente do STF
'simboliza promessa de novo Brasil'
'Time' divulgou lista anual nesta quinta (18). Alex Atala está entre os cem.
Do G1, em
Brasília
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Perfil
de Joaquim Barbosa no site da "Time", que
publicou texto sobre cada um dos 100 eleitos.
(Foto: reprodução/Time)
publicou texto sobre cada um dos 100 eleitos.
(Foto: reprodução/Time)
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mais
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reverencia Barbosa antes da posse na presidência do STF
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