Franklin Martins
Franklin de Sousa Martins ( Vitória, August 10, 1948) is a Brazilian journalist who served as Press Secretary for the government of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil. He started working as a journalist at 15, as an intern in the pro- Vargas newspaper '' Última Hora''. At 20, as a student of Economical Sciences at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (then ''University of Guanabara''), Franklin was elected chairman of the Student's Executive (DCE) and, soon after, vice-chairman of the Metropolitan Union of Students, in Rio de Janeiro. By then, Martins approached then fellow student leader José Dirceu, who was to become a founding member of the Workers Party and a grey eminence behind Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. As a youth, Martins was not only a student leader but after the 1964 coup d'état in Brazil, engaged in armed struggle and urban guerrilla. In the communist group MR-8, he was known as ''Valdir'' (codename). During the military dictatorship, he ha ...
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