Luiz Lindbergh Farias Filho, commonly known only as Lindbergh Farias (born 8 December 1969), is a Brazilian former student union leader and politician. Lindberg became famous as student leader, specially in 1992, when he was president of the National Union of Students (UNE) and one of the main leaders of the student movement ''Caras-Pintadas'' (''Painted Faces'') against the then president

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, who was his ally before Lindberg's political career. Farias attended Medicine and Law colleges, but never got a degree. After leaving the student movement, he was elect

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for two legislatures. He was also elect and re-elect Mayor of

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, in

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. In 2010, Lindbergh was elect

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for

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. In 2014, he ran for Governor of Rio de Janeiro for the Workers' Party (PT), when he placed 4th, with 10% of the valid votes.

Early years

Childhood

He was born on 8 December 1969 in João Pessoa, capital of

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. Farias is son of the doctor Luiz Lindbergh Farias and the university professor Ana Maria. He was named after his father, a tribute to the grandfather of the American aviator

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, who was the first man to cross the

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in 1927. Lindbergh spent his childhood in Paraíba, along with his siblings Fred, Rodrigo and Georgiana.

Student movement

His grandfather was a Communist Party voter. His father studied in Rio de Janeiro and was National Vice President of the Nationals Union of Students in 1961. According to himself, Lindbergh grew up reading about the left-wing thinking and, at the age of 14, considered himself a socialist. At 16, joined

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(PCdoB), where he acted in the youth wing, being elect National President of the Union of the Socialist Youth (UJS) a few years later. At 17, began his studies in Medicine at

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. In 1990, joined, upon submission to selection by the entrance exam, in the Law course, and joined the Students' Central Directory (DCE). At 21, Farias was elect Secretary-General of the National Union of Students and moved to São Paulo. In 1992, Lindbergh Fariais was elect president of UNE, marking the beginning of his political career. In that year, he met the unionist and metalworker

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Painted Faces

As he became president of UNE, moved to Rio de Janeiro and, in the student movement, led the historical movement of the "Painted Faces" in 1992, which contributed for the ''impeachment'' of the then president

. In an interview to

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, Lindbergh said: "We left the museum, walked through Avenida Paulista, went down to Avenida Brigadeiro Luiz Antônio and finished in front of the Law School of USP, in Largo São Francisco".

Political career

Lindbergh was elect Federal Deputy for the Communist Party of Brazil in the 1994 elections, being the left-wing candidate most voted. In 1996, he was elect National President of the Union of the Socialist Youth. Adhered to the trotskyism in 1997 and joined the

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(PSTU). In the Chamber of Deputies, opposed the government of

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(

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