Marina Silva Quotes

Maria Osmarina Marina da Silva Vaz de Lima , known as Marina Silva, is a Brazilian politician and environmentalist and current Brazil's Minister of the Environment and Climate Change . She is the founder and former spokeswoman for the Sustainability Network . During her political career, Silva served as a senator of the state of Acre between 1995 and 2011 and Minister of the Environment from 2003 to 2008. She ran for president in 2010, 2014 and 2018.

Silva was a member of the PT until 2009, and served as a senator before becoming Minister of the Environment in 2003. She ran for president in the 2010 Brazilian elections as the candidate for the Green Party, coming in 3rd with 19% of the first-round vote. In April 2014, Eduardo Campos announced his candidacy for the fall 2014 presidential election, naming Marina Silva as his vice presidential candidate. After Campos's death in a plane crash on August, she was selected to run as the Socialist Party's candidate for the presidency, winning 21% of the vote and coming in 3rd. She again ran for president in the 2018 election, this time as the nominee for the Sustainability Network, and finished 8th place with 1% of the vote.

Silva has won a number of awards from US and international organizations in recognition of her environmental activism. 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. She was one of eight people chosen to carry the flag for the opening ceremonies of the 2012 London Summer Olympics. Wikipedia  

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Marina Silva Quotes

“I hope the next minister is not as radical as Marina. She was an obstacle to economic development in Brazil.”

Rui Prado, head of the agriculture federation of Mato Grosso, on Silva's resignation; quoted in " Brazil's Amazon minister resigns," http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7399715.stm BBC News (2008-05-14)

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