Zila Bezerra

Maria Zila Frota Bezerra de Oliveira (born 7 May 1945) is a Brazilian teacher and politician of the Brazilian Democratic Movement, later the Liberal Front Party who was a Federal Deputy for Acre in the Chamber of Deputies from 1991 to 2003. She was a member or alternate of several committees, commissions and inquiries. Bezerra was later the mayor of Cruzeiro do Sul.

Background and early career Bezerra was born to parents Giucippe Genuense Frota and Maria Júlia Lopes Frota in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on 7 May 1945. She began teaching at the Fundação Educacional do Distrito Federal in Brasília in 1966 and remained there until 1970. In 1970, Bezerra was appointed external control technician at the Tribunal de Contas da União and as a chancellery officer at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From 1971 to 1981, she was educated at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Brasília. Bezerra also enrolled at the Sorbonne in Paris, France between 1975 and 1979, studying the French Language and Civilization.

In 2014, she was convicted for embezzlement of federal public money following an investigation by the Ministry of Defence technicians discovering more than 80 per cent of works and services of a contract were not carried out. Four years later, Bezerra was convicted by the Judiciary of the Civil Chamber of the Court of Justice of Acre for nonpayment of bills that Acre had to pay to the Acre Electricity Company (Eletroacre) that resulted in a loss along with interest and fines of R$16 million for the company.

Personal life She was married to the politician and the couple had one child.