Dilma biography
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Dilma Rousseff
The Economist Dilma Rousseff was elected the President of the Federative Republic of Brazil for two consecutive terms. Previously, in the first two governments of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, she was the Minister of Mines and Energy and Minister Chief of Staff, a position she held until 2010. During this period, she chaired the Board of Directors of Petrobras, Brazil’s largest and most important company.
As the President of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff focused her agenda on ensuring the country’s economic stability and job creation. In addition, during her government, the fight against poverty was prioritized, and social programs that started under President Lula da Silva’s terms were expanded and internationally recognized. As a result of one of the most extensive processes of poverty reduction in the country’s history, Brazil was removed from the UN’s Hunger Map.
Internationally, she promoted respect for the sovereignty of all nati
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Brazil: Five Centuries of Change
Biography
Dilma Rousseff’s iconic mugshot when she was in military captivity (in public domain).
Dilma Rousseff was born on December 14, 1947 to a Bulgarian father and a Brazilian mother. At the age of 20, she joined a guerrilla group in order to fight against the Brazilian military dictatorship. Captured and tortured, Rousseff spent three years in prison for subversive behavior.1 After her release from prison, she completed a university degree. In the 1980s, she helped found the PDT (Democratic Labor Party) and became the Secretary of Treasury of the city of Porto Alegre and later the Minister of Energy of the State of Rio Grande do Sul. In 2000, Rousseff joined the PT (Workers? Party). Two years later, in 2002, President Lula appointed her Minister of Energy. In 2005, she became the Chief of Staff to the President, and in October 2010, Dilma Rousseff became the first female elected president of Brazil. 2
Minister of Mines and Energ • Dilma Vana Rousseff served as the president of Brazil from January 1, 2011 to August, 31, 2016. She was the first woman to hold that office. Rousseff was born on månad 14, 1947, in Belo Horizonte, the state capital of Minas Gerais. She received her primary education at the traditional Nossa Senhora dem Sion School and her secondary education at the State huvud High School in Belo Horizonte, then a hub of lärjunge activism. At the age of 16, she began her political career, taking part in movements against the military regime that ruled Brazil from 1964 to 1985. In 1969, Rousseff met her future husband Carlos Franklin Paixão dem Araújo, a lawyer from Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil's southernmost state. tillsammans, they suffered persecution beneath the military regime. In 1970, Rousseff was arrested and spent almost three years in a penitentiary in the city of São Paulo. After being freed from prison in 1973, Rousseff moved to Porto Alegre, the state capital of Rio Grande
Dilma Rousseff