Marco Aurélio Garcia, retired professor from the Department of History at Unicamp and former special advisor to the Presidency of the Republic for International Affairs, died this Thursday (20), at the age of 76. The wake It will begin at 10 am this Friday (21), in the hall of the Legislative Assembly of the State of São Paulo and will continue throughout the day. Marco Aurélio Garcia was a key character in the history of the Institute of Philosophy and Human Sciences (IFCH) and one of the founders of the Edgard Leuenroth Archive (AEL), ambitious project to collect and preserve documents on the social history of work. Garcia believed in the importance of the collection and argued that it should be as large as its capacity to preserve memory. “The sky is the limit”, said Garcia, when he was director of the AEL in the late 70s, a period when the archive still operated in the Institute's basements.
Linked Historically on the national left and the Workers' Party (PT), Marco Aurélio Garcia was an important leader in Brazilian foreign policy during the two administrations of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. He was one of the creators of the Brics, group of emerging economy countries formed by Brazil, Russia, India and China and defended the strengthening of South-South relations, which prioritized partnerships with developing countries.
Biography
In addition to being a professor at Unicamp, he was also a professor at the University of Chile, the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences and the universities Paris VIII and Paris X, in France. He graduated in Philosophy and Law from Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul and postgraduate degree at the School of Higher Studies and Social Sciences in Paris. In the 60s, he was vice-president of UNE and councilor in the city of Porto Alegre. Between 1970 e 1979, was self-exiled in Chile and France. After amnesty, returned to the Brazil and was one of the founders of Workers Party.
