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Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva arrives at Sirio Libanes Hospital to be treated for throat cancer in Sao Paulo October 31, 2011. Brazil's popular former president Lula da Silva was diagnosed with throat cancer on Saturday casting doubt on his political future in...

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Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva carries his grandson Pedro in his apartment in Sao Bernardo do Campo October 30, 2011. Brazil's popular former president Lula da Silva was diagnosed with throat cancer on Saturday casting doubt on his political future in Latin...

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Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is seen during ceremony that creates the law of the sharing arrangements of the pre-salt and Social Fund of the pre-salt, at the Planalto Palace in Brasilia in this December 22, 2010 file photo. Brazil's popular former president Luiz Inacio...

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Brazil's former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva enters a car as he leaves the Sirio Libanes Hospital after being diagnosed with a tumor in the larynx in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Saturday Oct. 29, 2011. The tumor was detected Saturday during an examination at Sao Paulo's Sirio Libanes...

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Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva gestures during a news conference with international media in Rio de Janeiro in this December 3, 2010 file photo. Former Brazilian president Lula da Silva's tumor is malignant, Sao Paulo's Sirio Libanes Hospital said on October 29, 2011. ...

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Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva gestures as he speaks during a media conference with Peru's newly elected President Ollanta Humala in Sao Paulo in this June 10, 2011 file photo. Former Brazilian president Lula da Silva's tumor is malignant, Sao Paulo's Sirio Libanes...

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Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva attends a news conference in Rio de Janeiro in this December 3, 2010 file photo. Lula was diagnosed on October 29, 2011 with a tumor in the larynx and will undergo chemotherapy in the coming days.

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Brazil's former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva gestures during the celebration of the 31st anniversary of the Workers Party (PT) in Brasilia in this February 10, 2011 file photo. Lula was diagnosed on October 29, 2011 with a tumor in the larynx and will undergo chemotherapy in the...

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Brazil's former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (C) smiles as he arrives for a private meeting with Enrique Pena Nieto (not in picture), former Mexico state governor and a potential presidential candidate for the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), at a hotel in Mexico City...

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Former Brazilian President (2003-2010) Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva (R) recives the 'Amalia Solorzano' award from the founder of the Democratic Revolution Party (PRD) Cuauhtemoc Cardenas (L) on October 25, 2011 at the Palace of Mining in Mexico City. Lula was in Mexico for attending the...

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Former Brazilian President (2003-2010) Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva (C) sits next to the founder of the Democratic Revolution Party (PRD) Cuauhtemoc Cardenas (L) during the ceremony in which he recives the 'Amalia Solorzano' award on October 25, 2011 at the Palace of Mining in Mexico City.

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Brazil's former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (R) reaches out to shake hands with French Socialist presidential candidate Francois Hollande (L) as Spain's Socialist prime ministerial candidate Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba looks on at the Global Progress Foundation Congress in Madrid October...

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French socialist party (PS) candidate for the Fench 2012 presidential election, Francois Hollande (L) meets Brazilan former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (R) in Madrid on October 18, 2011. Lula and Hollande are in Madrid to attend the Global Progress conference.

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Paraguay's President Fernando Lugo (seated) is visited by Brazil's former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva as he undergoes medical examinations in a hospital in Sao Paulo, January 27, 2012. Both Lugo and Lula are undergoing treatment for cancer.

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Former President of Brazil, Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva, one two, 2011 World Food Prize Laureate recipents, address the crowd during The World Food Prize ceremony at the Capitol in Des Moines, Iowa, Thursday Oct. 13, 2011.

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Rio 2016 Olympic Games Organising Committee President Carlos Arthur Nuzman stands next to a video showing past footage of himself and former Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (R) as Rio de Janeiro was named host city for the 2016 Olympics, during an interview with foreign media...

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Brazil�s President Dilma Rousseff, left, embraces Brazil's former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva as they attend the inauguration of the new Minister of Science and Technology at Planalto Palace in Brasilia, Brazil, Tuesday Jan. 24, 2012. Lula is currently receiving radiation...

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FILE - In this Jan. 24, 2012, file photo, Brazil's former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva attends the inauguration of the new Minister of Science and Technology at Planalto Palace in Brasilia, Brazil. Lula da Silva was hospitalized Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012, after complaining of...

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Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (C) and El Salvador's President Mauricio Funes (R) greet an elderly woman as they arrive at the launch of the programme "Progress Territories" in the city of Puerto El Triunfo, 111 km (74 miles) east of San Salvador September 1, 2011.

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Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (R) shakes hand with El Salvador's President Mauricio Funes (L) during the launch of the programme "Progress Territories" in the city of Puerto El Triunfo, 111 km (74 miles) east of San Salvador September 1, 2011.

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Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (R) greets Salvadorans as he arrives at the launch of the programme "Progress Territories" in the city of Puerto El Triunfo, 111 km (74 miles) east of San Salvador September 1, 2011.

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Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff, left, speaks with her new Minister of Science and Technology Marco Antonio Raupp as former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva stands at right during Raupp's innaguration at Planalto Palace in Brasilia, Brazil, Tuesday Jan. 24, 2012.

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Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva speaks during a news conference at the presidential house in San Jose August 30, 2011.

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Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva meets with Costa Rica's President Laura Chinchilla at the presidential house in San Jose August 30, 2011.

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Former Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva speaks during an economic forum in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2011. Lula is on a two-day visit to Bolivia.