Contact Sheet for the State Officials of Tocantins

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Official website for the State of Tocantins

Office of the Assessor

Carlos Gomes - Assessor
Telephone: (63) 3218-1010/3218-1092
E-mail: carlosgomes@gabgov.to.gov.br

Autonomous Governmental Organs and Indirect Administration

Secretaries

Administration
Secretário	Eugênio Pacceli de F. Coelho
Address	Esplanada das Secretarias, Praça dos Girassóis
Telephone	(63) 3218-1501
E-mail	gasec@secad.to.gov.br
Agriculture, Cattle-raising and Supply
Secretário	Roberto Jorge Sahium
Address	Esplanada das secretarias, Praça dos Girassóis CEP:77.003-900
Telephone	(63) 3218-2103
E-mail	gabinete@seagro.to.gov.br
Chief of Staff of the Civil House (White House)
Secretária	Mary Marques de Lima
Address	Palácio Araguaia, Praça dos Girassóis, Marco central - CEP: 77.003-020
Telephone	(63) 3218 1060
E-mail	casacivil@casacivil.to.gov.br
Citizenship and Justice
Secretário	Télio Leão Ayres
Address	104 Sul, Rua SE-09, nº 36 - CEP: 77.020-024
Telephone	(63) 3218-6703
E-mail	seciju@bol.com.br
Communications
Secretário	João Francisco Aguiar Neto
Address	Palácio Araguaia, Praça dos Girassóis, Marco central
Telephone	(63) 3218-1078
E-mail	gabinete@secom.to.gov.br
Education and Culture
Secretária	Maria A. Seabra Rezende
Address	Esplanada das Secretarias,  Praça dos Girassóis, CEP: 77.003-900
Telephone	(63) 3218-1400
E-mail	gabinete@seduc.to.gov.br
Sports
Secretário	Adagsmar de Araújo Martins
Address	Esplanada das Secretarias,  Praça dos Girassóis, CEP: 77.003-902
Telephone	(63) 3218-1120
E-mail	sespo@setas.com.br
Farming and Agriculture
Secretário	Dorival Roriz Guedes Coelho
Address	Esplanada das Secretarias,  Praça dos Girassóis
Telephone	(63) 3218-1202
E-mail	sefaz.to@terra.com.br
Govern
Temporary Secretário	Jacques Silva
Address	502 Sul, Paço Municipal, Palácio dos Girassóis CEP: 77.011-900
Telephone	(63) 3218-1104
E-mail	segov@segov.to.gov.br
Commerce and Tourism
Secretário	Emilson Vieira Santos
Address	Av. Teotônio Segurado, s/nº
Telephone	(63) 218-2001
E-mail	gabinete@sictur.to.gov.br
Infrastructure
Secretário	José Edmar Brito Miranda
Address	Esplanada das Secretarias , Praça dos Girassóis
Telephone	(63) 3218-1601
E-mail	gasec@seinf.to.gov.br
Youth (Juvenile Affairs)
Secretário	Ricardo Ayres
Address	104 Sul, Rua SE - 03, nº 37 CEP: 77.020-016
Telephone	(63) 3218-2310
E-mail	sejuv@sejuv.to.gov.br
Environmental Protection Agency
Secretário	Lívio William Reis de Carvalho
Address	Esplanada das Secretarias, Praça dos Girassóis
Telephone	(63 )3218-1174
E-mail	impresa@seplan.to.gov.br
Water Resources
Secretário	Anízio Costa Pedreira
Address	104 Sul, Av. LO - 01, Conj.  04, Lote 10, 2º piso
Telephone	(63) 3218-2179
E-mail	gabinete@srh.to.gov.br
Health Department
Secretário	Gismar Gomes
Address	103 Sul, Rua  SO - 07, Lote 03, Edificio Durval Silva, CEP: 77.185-030
Telephone	(63) 218-1702
E-mail	saude@saude.to.gov.br
Public Security
Secretário	Júlio Resplande de Araújo
Address	Esplanada das Secretarias, Praça dos Girassóis, CEP: 77.103-970
Telephone	(63) 3218-1801
E-mail	ssp@ssp.to.gov.br
Social Welfare Department
Secretária	Maria Helena Brito Miranda
Address	Esplanada das Secretarias, Praça dos Girassóis, CEP: 77.003-902
Telephone	(63) 3218-1900
E-mail	gabinete@setas.to.gov.br

Lieutenant Governor (Vice-Deputy)

Raimundo Nonato Pires dos Santos  

He Was born in 1946. He is married to Attorney Warner Pires and they have five children. He is a licensed medical doctor and has practiced medicine in Para before becoming a politician.

He was the first president of the Legislative Assembly, elected in 1988, participating in the preparation of the Constitution of the State. He was a vice-deputy in the second government of Siqueira Campos, assumed the governors post for eight months, when Governor Campos resigned to dispute the re-election, in 1998. He was elected a vice-deputy of Palms in 2000, together with Mayor Nilmar Ruiz.

Governor

Marcelo de Carvalho Miranda

He was born in 10/10/1961.  He is the 4th governor who assumes the command of the Government of the Tocantins. He has wide experience in public administration polished by three terms as state deputy. His experience in politics began very much early, in the advisory body of his father, Brito Miranda, then state deputy, representative of the region of the ancient north from Goias, today Tocantins, in the Legislative Assembly of Goias.

In the Legislative Assembly he arrived in 1990 and soon he stood out, being re-elected in 1994 and 1998, conquering in this last election in a landslide victory. His sympathy, humility, and competence have been the mainstays of his administration during his two terms as governor.  Before becoming governor, he was President of Parliament.  As leader of Brazilian parliamentarians Marcelo Miranda boldly integrated the National Union of the State Legislatures and articulated the creation of the Amazonian Parliament, of which he was a president.

Governor Marcelo Miranda won more than 60 % of the popular vote in his most recent election.  His pledges are to improving the quality of life through the generation of jobs and income, by attracting investment, and to support to programs of social promotion. He also pledges to enlarge the popular participation in the decisions of the Government and to maintain a strong partnership with the local authorities.

Governor Marcelo Miranda has been married to Dulce Miranda for 14 years.  They have two children, Marcela and Guilherme.

First-Lady

Dulce Ferreira Pagani Miranda

Dulce Miranda is a native from Minas Gerais, where she was born in 1963.   She is the daughter of Cordovil Ferreira Aaua and Rita Thereza Pagani, northern native of Goias.   She is very connected with her family and with religion.  Her involvement with the community was always familiar in natural way as a frequent volunteer, since the time when she was a single woman.

Give in, Dulce discovered the strength of the love, the comfort of the complicity and of the companionship, while getting married with Marcelo Miranda, a dreamy young person, who was feeding the wish of doing more for the long-suffering people of the north from Goias. The charitable soul of Dulce reinforced this dream, which brought near it still more than the husband who had already opted for the public life, devoting herself to the common good.

Dulce chose to be active in the social area.  She has developed philanthropic activities in the peripheral districts of the Capital.

Dulce has been active in intense social work for 13 years.  So great is her dedication that she has earned the nickname of "Sweet Dulce" in, and it is so that she is affectionately that called by that that are benefited by her sincere involvement during her work as a volunteer.

Because of this new challenge, of being the First-lady, Dulce has exchanged theory for practice.  At the front of the State General Office of the Work and Social Action (Arrows), Dulce established a more human way in the treatment of relevant questions like the generation of job and income, believing in the improvement of the quality of life for families.  She is guided by generosity, determination, companionship and humility.

Marcelo and Dulce, a marriage that propelled her into public activity. In spite of the dedication to the social and political activity, Dulce, always finds time to take care of the children, Guilherme, 9 years, and Marcella, 8 years, and of the house, which it administers with great care. She knows what modern life demands of a woman in her position.

Telephone	(63) 3218-2461
E-mail	primeiradama@gabgov.to.gov.br

National Level

Brazil's President

LUIZ INÁCIO LULA DA SILVA’S BIOGRAPHY

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was born on 27 October 1945, in the small town of Garanhuns, State of Pernambuco, in the Northeast of Brazil. Married to Marisa Letícia since 1974, they have five children. Lula is the seventh of eight children of Aristides Inácio da Silva and Eurídice Ferreira de Mello. Aristides left his wife and children to work as a stevedore in the port of Santos, State of São Paulo, carrying coffee sacks. Lula first met his father at the age of 5, when Aristides came home to visit his family.

In December 1952 Euridice traveled on the back of a truck for 13 days with her children, to migrate to the coast of the State of São Paulo. They settled in Vicente de Carvalho, a poor neighborhood of Guarujá, a well-known beach resort. When he was 7 years old Lula sold peanuts, tapioca (a typical Brazilian sweet made of coconut) and oranges on the streets of Guarujá. He attended "Marcílio Dias", a state owned school.

In 1956, after separating from her husband, Eurídice took her children to live in the city of São Paulo in one single room at the back of a bar in a neighborhood called Ipiranga. Lula’s first job at the age of 12 was in a dry cleaner’s. He also worked as a shoe shiner and as an office boy.

When he was 14, Lula went to work at Columbia Warehouse where for the first time he was officially registered as a worker. Later on he transferred to Marte Screw Factory and thanks to his metallurgical work, he was able to enroll in a technical school called SENAI - National Industry Service - where he studied for three years to become a mechanic and a lathe operator.

The crisis after the military coup in 1964 obliged Lula to go from factory to factory looking for a job. In January 1966 he started working at Villares Industries, one of the main metallurgical industries in the country, located in São Bernardo do Campo, within the metropolitan area of São Paulo known as ABC.

The first contact that Lula had with the trade union movement was made through his brother José Ferreira da Silva, known as Frei Chico. In 1969 the Metallurgist’s Trade Union in São Bernardo do Campo and Diadema (metropolitan area of São Paulo) elected Lula as a substitute member of the board. In the next election, in 1972, Lula was again nominated for the board of directors and was elected First Secretary and responsible for the Social Security area. Elected president of the trade union in 1975 with 92% of the votes, Lula represented around 100,000 workers.

On 10 March 1980 Lula founded the Workers Party together with other trade unionists, intellectuals, politicians and representatives of social movements, such as rural and religious leaders.

In 1982 the Worker’s Party was represented in most of the country by some 400,000 members. Lula led the process of organizing the party and ran for the government of the State of São Paulo. Despite losing the election for governor of São Paulo State, the Worker’s Party elected 8 federal congressmen, 12 state congressmen and 78 councilors. Lula also took part in the foundation of CUT (Central Única dos Trabalhadores), a federation of Trade Unions.

In 1986 Lula was elected Federal Representative for the State of São Paulo with the largest number of votes in the country. In 1988 the Worker’s Party had a brilliant performance in the local elections, managing to elect 1,000 councilors all over the country and 36 mayors.

After 29 years without direct elections for the Presidency, the Worker’s Party launched Lula as their candidate in 1989. In 1994 and 1998 Lula also ran for President but lost to Fernando Henrique Cardoso.

From 1998 onwards Lula has coordinated the Citizenship Institute, a non governmental institution which carries out studies, research, debate, important publications and the elaboration of proposals for public policies, as well as national campaigns to mobilized civil society so that Brazilians can attain full citizenship.

On 6 November 2002 Lula and José Alencar were elected President and Vice-President of the Federative Republic of Brazil with 61.27% of the valid votes (52.7 million). They were certified by the Electoral Court on 14 December 2002.

Contact information for the President of Brazil

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
Palácio do Planalto
70150-900 Brasília, DF, Brasil

Fax: 00 55 61 411-2222

Email: protocolo@planalto.gov.br