Marina Silva, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Marina Silva

Brazilian environmentalist and politician

Date of Birth: 08-Feb-1958

Place of Birth: Rio Branco, Acre, Brazil

Profession: politician, environmentalist, trade unionist

Nationality: Brazil

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

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About Marina Silva

  • Maria Osmarina Marina Silva Vaz de Lima (born 8 February 1958) is a Brazilian politician and environmentalist.
  • She is currently the spokeswoman for the Sustainability Party (REDE).
  • 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. Born in a rubber plantation in Acre, Marina moved to the state capital Rio Branco as a teenager, where she became literate.
  • After graduating high school, she completed her undergraduate degree in History from the Federal University of Acre at 26.
  • She developed an interest in politics and joined the Revolutionary Communist Party, a Marxist organization that was housed in the Workers' Party (PT), later helping to found the Unified Workers' Central of Acre.
  • She helped Chico Mendes to lead the trade union movement, being elected as councillor of Rio Branco in 1988 for her first mandate in a public office. 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 (PV), 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.
  • In the first round of the October 2014 election, she won 21% of the vote (less than many of the opinion polls had predicted), coming in 3rd and failing to advance to the run-off.
  • In the second round, she supported PSDB candidate Aécio Neves over PT incumbent Dilma Rousseff.
  • She is running for president again in the 2018 election, this time under the Sustainability Network. Silva has won a number of awards from US and international organizations in recognition of her environmental activism.
  • In 1996, Silva won the Goldman Environmental Prize for South & Central America.
  • In 2007, the United Nations Environment Program named her one of the Champions of the Earth and the 2009 Sophie Prize.
  • In December 2014, Marina Silva was elected by the British Financial Times newspaper as one of its Women of the Year.
  • Silva is also a member of Washington, D.C.-based think tank, the Inter-American Dialogue.
  • 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.
  • In 2012 she was one of eight people chosen to carry the flag for the opening ceremonies of the 2012 London Summer Olympics.

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