A new stage in his long journey | From turner to …

The decision made yesterday by the Federal Supreme Court of Brazil marks a new key date in the life of former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

• October 27, 1945: He was born into a poor peasant family in northeastern Brazil. They emigrated to San Pablo when he was 7 years old in the state of Sao Paulo to escape starvation.
• 1975: He is elected president of the metalworkers' union, a sector in which he worked since the age of 14.
• 1978-1980: he led the great strikes in the industrial suburbs, in full dictatorship (1964-1985). He is jailed for a month for his role in the conflict.
• 1980: Participates in the establishment of the Workers Party (PT) and is one of the creators of the Single Workers Union, which becomes the largest federation of labor in Brazil.
• January 1, 2003: He becomes the first Brazilian president of working clbad origin. He is re-elected in 2006.
• 2005: Decapita to the leadership of PT after the corruption scandals of "Mensalao" (paying bribes to legislators in return for political support).
• 2010: Ends his term with 83% approval. Thanks to its social programs, 29 million Brazilians have emerged from poverty, despite the fact that the country remains very unequal.
• March 4, 2016: Judge Sergio Moro orders Lula to make a forced statement as part of the Lava Jato investigation into a bribery ploy in Petrobras.
• March 17, 2016: Another judge suspends her appointment as Dilma Rousseff's chief minister of government on the pretext that the designation was intended solely to protect him from ordinary justice.
• July 12, 2017: Moro condemns him without evidence to nine and a half years of imprisonment for pbadive bribery and money laundering, as alleged beneficiary of a department of the seaside resort of São Paulo Guarujá offered by the government. OAS construction company in exchange for its mediation for obtaining contracts with Petrobras.
• January 2018: A second instance court carries the penalty to 12 years and a month of imprisonment.
• April 7, 2018: Lula surrenders to the police amid mbadive popular support on the outskirts of the San Bernardo do Campo Metallurgical Workers' Union (Sao Paulo Industrial Belt).
• August 31, 2018: The Higher Electoral Tribunal invalidates his candidacy for the presidential election of October.
• February 6th: Judge Gabriela Hardt, deputy Moro, appointed Minister of Justice of the ultra leader, Jair Bolsonaro, condemns him in first instance to 12 years and 11 months imprisonment for alleged corruption and money laundering, considering that He had benefited from reforms in a hacienda in Atibaia (interior of São Paulo) offered by construction companies in exchange for contracts with Petrobras.
• April 23: The Superior Court of Justice reduced Lula's sentence in the Guarujá case from 12 years and one month to 8 years and 10 months of imprisonment. This decision opens the prospect that Lula could benefit in October from a semi-open detention regime.