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Dilma rousseff
Rousseff, Dilma - Infoplease!
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, 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.
Arnaldo jabor dilma rousseff biography
In the s, 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 , Rousseff joined the PT (Workers?
Party). Two years later, in , President Lula appointed her Minister of Energy. In , she became the Chief of Staff to the President, and in October , Dilma Rousseff became the first female elected president of Brazil. 2
Minister of Mines and Energy & Chief of Staff