José Jefferson Carpinteiro Peres (18 March 1932 – 23 May 2008), commonly known as Jefferson Peres, was a Brazilian professor and politician and a member of the

Brazilian Senate The Federal Senate ( pt, Senado Federal) is the upper house of the National Congress of Brazil. When created under the Imperial Constitution in 1824, it was based on the House of Lords of the British Parliament, but since the Proclamation ...

(Senado Federal)."Senador Jefferson Péres morre aos 76 anos em Manaus"
– ''Folha (23/05/2008)'' (Retrieved on May 23, 2008)

Career

In the 2006 presidential election, Peres was the vice-presidential candidate for the Democratic Labour Party (PDT), supporting

Cristovam Buarque Cristovam Ricardo Cavalcanti Buarque (; born February 20, 1944) is a Brazilian university professor and member of Cidadania. He was a senator for the Federal District from 2003 to 2019. Biography Buarque graduated in mechanical engineering fro ...

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candidacy. Péres was involved in a popular movement to nationalize the oil industry in Brazil in the 1950s. He opposed the reconstruction of the

BR-319 BR-319 is an federal highway that links Manaus, Amazonas to Porto Velho, Rondônia. The highway runs through a pristine part of the Amazon rainforest. It was opened by the military government in 1973 but soon deteriorated, and by 1988 was impassi ...

highway through Brazil's rain forest. He called for the replacement of the "wholly artificial"

Manaus Manaus () is the capital and largest city of the Brazilian state of Amazonas. It is the seventh-largest city in Brazil, with an estimated 2020 population of 2,219,580 distributed over a land area of about . Located at the east center of the s ...

industrial park (which exists in part because of tax incentives) with production of goods from local raw materials. In 1988 he became the councilman of

and held that position until he was elected to the Senate in 1994. Outside politics Peres was dean of the

Universidade Federal do Amazonas The Federal University of Amazonas ( pt, Universidade Federal do Amazonas, UFAM) is a public university located in Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil. It is the oldest university in Brazil and one of the largest universities in the northern region of Br ...

School of Social Studies in the 1970s. He taught economics in the same institution.

References

External links

Official site at Brazil's Senate
1932 births 2008 deaths Academic staff of the Federal University of Amazonas Brazilian economists Academic staff of Fundação Getulio Vargas Democratic Labour Party (Brazil) politicians Members of the Federal Senate (Brazil) {{Brazil-economist-stub Candidates for Vice President of Brazil