Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
President

(pronounced "loo-ESE ee-NAY-thee-oh LOO-la dah SEEL-vah")

"More than ten years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, there are other walls that divide those who eat from those who are hungry, those who have jobs from the unemployed, those who live with dignity from those living in the streets."

The Federative Republic of Brazil dominates the South American continent, encompassing 8.5 million sq km (3.29 million sq mi), which represents 40% of the continental land mass. Brazil is bounded to the east and northeast by the Atlantic Ocean; to the north by French Guiana, Suriname, Guyana, and Venezuela; to the west by Colombia and Peru; to the southwest by Bolivia and Paraguay; and to the south by Argentina and Uruguay.

Home to more than 176 million people...