{{Short description|Brazilian politician (born 1946)}} {{expand Portuguese|topic=bio|date=February 2018}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = José Genoino | image = José Genoino.jpg | alt = | caption = | office = National President of the Workers' Party | term_start = December 7, 2002 | term_end = July 9, 2005 | predecessor = José Dirceu | successor = Tarso Genro | candidate = | election_date = | running_mate = | opponent = | incumbent = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1946|05|03}} | birth_place = Quixeramobim, Ceará, Brazil | death_date = | death_place = | party = Workers' Party | other_party = | relations = | spouse = | civil partner = | children = | occupation = | signature = | signature_alt = | website = | footnotes = }}
'''José Genoino Neto''' (born 3 May 1946) is a Brazilian politician and former guerrilla fighter.
== Biography == Born in Quixeramobim in the state of Ceará,<ref>{{cite book|last1=Couto|first1=Ronaldo Costa|author2=Aécio Neves|authorlink2=Aécio Neves|title=Memória viva do regime militar: Brasil, 1964-1985|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iPYrAAAAYAAJ|accessdate=4 April 2011|year=1999|publisher=Editora Record|isbn=978-85-01-05581-1|page=221}}</ref> he fought as a guerrilla in one of the movements against the Brazilian military leaders Artur da Costa e Silva, Emílio Garrastazu Médici and Ernesto Geisel who ruled Brazil in the seventies. Ultimately, he was given amnesty,<ref>{{cite book|last=Robb|first=Peter|authorlink=Peter Robb (author)|title=A Death in Brazil: A Book of Omissions|date=1 May 2005|publisher=Macmillan|isbn=978-0-312-42487-9|page=137}}</ref> and elected as a congressman for São Paulo, serving between 1982 and 2002.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Siavelis|first1=Peter|author2=Scott Morgenstern|title=Pathways to power: political recruitment and candidate selection in Latin America|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HyuiBXoFd1wC&pg=PA235|accessdate=4 April 2011|year=2008|publisher=Penn State Press|isbn=978-0-271-03375-4|page=235}}</ref> At the end of 2002, he was elected president of the Brazilian Workers Party.<ref>Robb (2005), p. 302.</ref> In 2012, he was found guilty of corruption in one of the largest corruption scandals case by the Brazilian Supreme Court and, as of 2014, is under house arrest.
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