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Maria Osmarina Marina Silva Vaz de Lima is a Brazilian environmentalist and politician. Ms. Silva was a colleague of Chico Mendes, who was assassinated for defending the Amazon environment. She was a member of the Worker's Party until August 19, 2009 and served as a senator before becoming environmental minister in 2003. In 1996, Ms. 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. Running in the 2010 Brazilian elections for the Green Party, she earned 19.4% of the popular votes. 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 the eight people chosen to carry the flag into opening ceremony of the London Olympic Games. Wikipedia [ - ]

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Marina Silva (born in Acre on February 8, 1958) is a Brazilian environmentalist and politician. She was a colleague of Chico Mendes. She is a member of the Partido dos Trabalhadores and served as a senator before becoming environmental minister in 2003. In 1996 she shared a Goldman Environmental Prize and in 2007 the United Nations Environment Programme named her a Champion of the Earth.She had become increasingly isolated in Luiz Incio Lula da Silva's government, her views on hydroelectric dams, biofuels, and genetically modified crops being at variance with his. She resigned in mid-May, 2008 and was replaced by Carlos Minc. She stated she planned to return to the Senate. a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.html?curid=17484359full article at wikipedia/aMarina SilvaPTACLegislatura inicial:52 Legislatura final:53Ano inicial: 2003 Ano final: 2011marinasi@senado.gov.brhttp://www.senado.gov.br/sf/senadores/senadores_institucional.asp?leg=aamp;codparl=59http://www.senado.gov.br/web/senador/marinasi/marinasi.htm
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Maria Osmarina Marina Silva Vaz de Lima is a Brazilian environmentalist and politician. Ms. Silva was a colleague of Chico Mendes, who was assassinated for defending the Amazon environment. She was a member of the Worker's Party until August 19, 2009 and served as a senator before becoming environmental minister in 2003. In 1996, Ms. 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. Running in the 2010 Brazilian elections for the Green Party, she earned 19.4% of the popular votes. 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 the eight people chosen to carry the flag into opening ceremony of the London Olympic Games. Wikipedia