- Luis Favre
Luis Favre (born
1949 ) is thepseudonym of Argentine-born Brazilianjournalist andpolitical activist Felipe Belisario Wermus. Born inBuenos Aires , Favre joined the political party Politica Obrera as a young man. Later, he moved toFrance and became a member of theInternationalist Communist Organisation (ICO), working especially in its international department. He moved to Brazil and became a critic ofPierre Lambert during the Fourth International tendency within ICO. He would later leave the party to became a member of the Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT). He is known to a broader public in Brazil as the second husband of Marta Smith de Vasconcelos Suplicy, former congresswoman and mayor of São Paulo through PT. Since1986 he has been an aide to the National Secretariat of International Relations of PT, attending various international events on its behalf. [http://www.cubdest.org/0312/c0311islulae.html] He is linked to a group of formerTrotskyists within PT known colloquially as the "Libelu" (named after their tendency, "Liberdade e Luta" or "Freedom and Fight"), which supportsLuiz Inácio Lula da Silva 's wing.His brother, José Saul Wermus (best know as
Jorge Altamira ), is the General Secretary of Partido Obrero (Politica Obrera's sucessor). His other siblings are also active within that party in Argentina.External links
* [http://blogdofavre.ig.com.br/ Favre's blog]
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