Our new cover tarradiddle on leadership is fill with the bluff ideas and unusual measure that politicians have taken to try and good their countries . But part of what get the piece so enchanting is that all of these man and women have had improbable lives . Their history fathom so unlikely– from a hippie , folk - tattle physician who escaped torture to become president , to an East German scientist and daughter of a pastor who walk over the Berlin wall and was so moved that she felt compelled to go into politics . The stories are unbelievable , but my front-runner is that of Lula da Silva . This is just an excerpt from one of the profiles in that narrative .
The End of Poverty: Lula da Silva
The Miraculous Bag of Money
Born to illiterate parents in 1945 , Lula embark on out life in a hut with no electricity and only dirt floors to sleep on . At eld 7 , he sold peanuts on the street of Sao Paulo to help plump for his household . They often went athirst , mostly because his father was an scurrilous alky who had a 2nd family and a total of 23 offspring . When Lula was 10 , his mother , Lindu , decide she ’d had enough . She gathered her seven tike and moved them to a undivided room in the back of a local bar . But she still could n’t keep up with the snag .
Inside was more money than a minimum - pay manual laborer could make in three days . After waiting a hebdomad for someone to claim it , Lula ’s pal reach the package to Lindu . She used the extra cash to move the family to a nearby industrial suburb . life sentence was still hard , but the move convey opportunities . Lula learned to read and eventually receive vocational preparation as a metalworker .
