‘The Difficulties My Family Has Faced Have Influenced Me a Lot,' Says the Son of a Diarist of the U.S.-Elected Baixada.

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At the age of 14, Felipe Sousa-Lazaballet left his family's home in Duke de Caxias, in Baixada Fluminense, and embarked alone to Miami, United States. He did not speak English, had no immigration documentation and took with him the promise to study, get a job and help his mother, Francisca Neide Sousa, who raised the three children alone working as a diarist. Almost 25 years later, the trajectory begun still in adolescence led him to the House o…