Biography dilma rousseff

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 December 14, 1947, in Belo Horizonte, the state capital of Minas Gerais. She received her primary education at the traditional Nossa Senhora de Sion School and her secondary education at the State Central High School in Belo Horizonte, then a hub of student 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 de Araújo, a lawyer from Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil's southernmost state. Together, they suffered persecution under 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

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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 grad. In the 1980s, she helped funnen 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 kvinnlig elected president of Brazil. ²

Minister of Mines and Energ

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Dilma Rousseff

Dilma Vana Rousseff (born 14 December 1947) is an economist and politician. She was the 36th President of Brazil from 2011 until 2016.

In 2003, in the government of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, she was the minister of Mines and Energy. She became Lula's Chief of Staff in 2005, after her predecessor, José Dirceu, resigned because of charges of corruption.^[1] On 31 October 2010, Rousseff won 55% of the vote. Her main contender was José Serra who won 44%. Serra was the candidate of the Brazilian Social Democratic Party. On 1 January 2011, she became the first woman president of the country.^[2][3] In August 2016, she was impeached and removed from office.

Early career

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She was against the military dictatorship that governed Brazil from 1964 to 1985. In January 1970 she was sent to prison for being a member of a Marxist group which had carried out bank robberies and murders.^[3][4] She was re