Jefferson Peres
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Brazil
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ian professor and politician, member of the Brazilian Senate
Senate of Brazil
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(Senado Federal) from 1995.
At the 2006 Presidential election, Peres was the vice-presidential candidate for the Democratic Labour Party
Democratic Labour Party (Brazil)
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(PDT), supporting Cristovam Buarque
Cristovam Buarque
Cristovam Ricardo Cavalcanti Buarque is a Brazilian politician and university professor, member of Democratic Labour Party . He is married and has two children.-Biography:Buarque graduated in mechanical engineering from the Federal University of Pernambuco...
's presidential
President of Brazil
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candidacy.
Péres was involved in a popular movement to nationalize the oil industry in Brazil in the 1950s.
He opposed the reconstruction of the BR-319 highway through Brazil's rain forest. He called for the replacement of the "wholly artificial" Manaus
Manaus
Manaus is a city in Brazil, the capital of the state of Amazonas. It is situated at the confluence of the Negro and Solimões rivers. It is the most populous city of Amazonas, according to the statistics of Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics, and is a popular ecotourist destination....
industrial park (which exists in part because of tax incentives) with production of goods from local raw materials.
In 1988 he became the mayor of Manaus
Manaus
Manaus is a city in Brazil, the capital of the state of Amazonas. It is situated at the confluence of the Negro and Solimões rivers. It is the most populous city of Amazonas, according to the statistics of Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics, and is a popular ecotourist destination....
and held that position until he was elected to the Senate in 1995.
Outside of politics, Peres was the director of Universidade Federal do Amazonas and Fundação Getulio Vargas
Fundação Getúlio Vargas
Fundação Getulio Vargas is a Brazilian higher education institution founded on December 20, 1944. It offers regular courses of Economics, Business Administration, Law, Social Sciences and Information technology management...
. He taught economics at Universidade Federal do Amazonas.