Dilma on Lula: "He's in a wonderful mood"
Dilma Rousseff visited the former president at the Sírio-Libanês Hospital in São Paulo, where he began chemotherapy treatment for laryngeal cancer.
247 – Dilma Rousseff visited former president Lula this Monday at the Sírio-Libanês hospital in São Paulo. The president came from Brasília, where she was participating in the inauguration ceremony of the new Minister of Sports, Aldo Rebelo, and arrived at the hospital by helicopter. Lula is hospitalized to undergo chemotherapy sessions for laryngeal cancer, diagnosed last Saturday. He will spend the night at the hospital.
According to the website of the Instituto Cidadania, founded by Lula, the visit lasted about an hour and they discussed the G20 meeting, which Dilma will attend this week in France. The president was accompanied by the Minister of Finance, Guido Mantega, and the Minister of the General Secretariat of the Presidency, Gilberto Carvalho.
“He was interested in discussing how the countries in the Eurozone are performing, how the crisis is unfolding, and how to overcome it. [He was] very committed to a very important issue, which is the fact that there is no record in history of solutions to a crisis without concomitant growth,” the president stated, according to the Institute.
"He's in a wonderful mood. He's got that joy of his," said Dilma. "The president is a person who looks outward; he doesn't get sad looking inward. He looks at the world, he looks at life, and that's what he values."