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Dilma Rousseff
president of Brazil
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History & Society
- In full:
- Dilma Vana Rousseff
- Born:
- December 14, 1947, Belo Horizonte, Brazil (age 76)
- Title / Office:
- president (2011-2016), Brazil
- Political Affiliation:
- Workers’ Party
- Role In:
- Petrobras scandal
Dilma Rousseff (born December 14, 1947, Belo Horizonte, Brazil) Brazilian politician who in 2011 became Brazil’s first female president. She was reelected in 2014 but impeached and removed from office in 2016. Rousseff was raised in an upper-middle-class household. Her father was a lawyer who immigrated to Brazil from Bulgaria, and her mother was a teacher. In 1964 Brazil’s president was overthrown by a coalition of civilian and military officials, and the teenaged Rousseff became involved in the left-wing opposition to the government. She was associated with the militant group National Liberation Command (Comando de Libertação Nacional; Colina), and she ...(100 of 2482 words)