Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva: "My greatest desire is that the hope that has overcome fear in my country will also help vanquish it around the world," Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva told hundreds of delegates at the World Economic Forum, an annual meeting of corporate and political leaders.
"I would like to invite all of you that are here, on this 'Magic Mountain' of Davos, to look at the world with other eyes," he said, in a reference to the classic novel by Thomas Mann set in Davos.
He said it should be the goal that everyone in the world could "eat breakfast, eat lunch and eat dinner" and called for Western governments and big investors to create a global fund to fight poverty and hunger around the world.
"Countries are spending billions and billions of dollars in an arms race and spending money on things that are not priorities," Silva said. "We look at the third world countries and millions and millions of women and children die because they don't manage to eat the calories they need."
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