The Star Online > News > Latest Wednesday, January 19, 2005 Half brother of Brazilian president dies SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) - Odair Inacio de Gois, half brother of Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, died of a heart attack late Tuesday, the president's office said. He was 52. Gois, who was one of the president's 17 siblings, had spent the last three years in a rest home after losing the much of the movement in his arms and legs because of health problems related to alcoholism, the Estado news agency reported. Silva's office said the president would not attend the funeral which was scheduled for 15:00 local time (1700GMT) at the Pauliceia cemetery in Sao Bernardo, a city in the greater Sao Paulo area According to local media Silva and Gois were not close. Gois and Silva shared the same father. Silva was scheduled to travel to Tabatinga in Amazonas state and Leticia, a city in Colombia that sits just across the border from Brazil. In December Silva lost and another brother, Joao Inacio da Silva Neto, 41, who died of multiple organ failure after a battle with cancer.The president did not attend that funeral either.-AP
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Mr Odair de Inácio Góis, aged 52, died Tuesday night at 8:30 at the Central Hospital of São Bernardo do Campo, in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. 

According to the doctors, he had a heart attack. Inácio was the paternal half-brother of the Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. The funeral will be held at Paulicéia Cemitery in São Bernado do Campo. President Lula had between 17 and 25 siblings (including half-brothers and half-sisters).