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Prior to founding US&Latin Magazine in Washington D.C, Samuel Saraiva advocated for land reform and opposed the use of unjustified violence and impunity by the security forces. In his youth Saraiva became a staunch opponent of Brazil's brutal military regime that forced itself into power in 1964. In 1980 he was a founder of and president of the Democratic Workers Party (PDT) in the Brazilian state of Rondonia.
In 1981 he founded the Youth National Movement of the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB), Brazil's largest party, a loosely knit coalition of politicians from across the political spectrum, which elected federal deputies in all states and the federal district in 1990. On that party's slate in the November 1982 election, he was elected Rondonia's federal deputy alternate to the Chamber of Deputies of the Brazilian Legislature. In November 1982, Saraiva published his first book, "In Defense of the People of Rondonia," on the arbitrariness, intolerance and violence of the military.
From 1987 to 1992 he served as a legislative advisor for the Institute of Research, Studies- IPEAC, and Advisory Services of the Brazilian national Congress, where he continued to work for social and political reforms. The following are some of his activities during that period:
In 1989 he published a second book in support of a bill he authored. The proposal calls for the development of Brazil's Amazonian frontier though a radical approach to agrarian reform and international policing of this crime and drug-infested area. It was published by the Brazilian House of Representatives and the Latin American Parliament. The co-authors were Deputies Assis Canuto (Liberal Front Party - PFL) and Jose Guedes (Brazilian Social Democracy Party - PSDB), both representatives of Rondonia State. (Introduced in the Federal Senate in 1997, by Senator ErnandesAmorim.)

In 1989 and 1990 he authored two bills, wherefore the press credited him with the initiatives that would have required accountability from the military and intelligence apparatus for the first time through the submission of quarterly reports to the national Congress regarding the use of torture and other human rights violations; and, for the establishment of a Joint Committee of the Brazilian Congress to exercise oversight over the activities of the intelligence, information, and security apparatus.

In 1992 he authored bills calling for coordination of drug enforcement activities between the Brazilian military and the United States, and for the establishment of new mechanisms of high level conversations and cooperation between the Brazilian and US military forces after the end of the Cold War. Other bills:

Requiring the use of anesthetics in projectile weapons used by police organizations and private security services, in 1992. (This bill was submitted for consideration to the US Senate Judiciary Committee by Senator Barbara A. Mikulski, D-MD, and Senator Paul Sarbanes, D-MD, during the 105th US Congress.)
In October 2000, Samuel Saraiva was invited by the White House to participate in the Oval on Conference about "The growing importance of the Americas and the growth of the Latin American population in the United States in changing the dynamics of the hemisphere".
Saraiva studied International Relations at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico - UNAM in Mexico City, as well as the Universidade de Brasilia - UNB, including course work in Diplomatic Law and Foreign Policy.

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In the United States, Saraiva is a member of The National Association of Hispanic Journalists, the Brazilian American Chamber of Commerce, Amnesty International USA, and the National Press Club in Washington D.C.