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Brazil’s Dilma Rousseff: Year One

January 4, 2012
Brazil’s Dilma Rousseff: Year One

                              In one of her last official appearances of 2011, on December 22, Dilma Rousseff, Brazil’s president, arrived in a sweltering gymnasium in downtown Sao Paulo to give a speech to a few hundred working-class social activists. In her speech, she [...]

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Building truth in Brazil Brazil President Rousseff has created a commission to unveil crimes committed during the country’s military regime.

December 6, 2011
Building truth in Brazil   Brazil President Rousseff has created a commission to unveil crimes committed during the country’s military regime.

    Rousseff, herself a victim of torture, has organised a Truth Commission to unveil past crimes [GALLO/GETTY] Some things take time. Dilma Rousseff, once a political prisoner who survived repeated torture at the hands of the military dictatorship, is now, a quarter of a century later, Brazil’s commander-in-chief. President Rousseff, Brazil’s first female head [...]

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Dilma Rousseff’s pledge to empower Brazil’s women comes good Brazilian president’s party to field a record number of women candidates for 2012 elections in her home state of Minas Gerais

December 2, 2011
Dilma Rousseff’s pledge to empower Brazil’s women comes good  Brazilian president’s party to field a record number of women candidates for 2012 elections in her home state of Minas Gerais

  Dilma Rousseff, Brazil’s first female president, came to power a year ago promising to fight for women’s rights. Photograph: Ueslei Marcelino/Reuters reddit this Tom Phillips in Belo Horizonte guardian.co.uk, Friday 2 December 2011 12.21 GMT Article history She came to power vowing to blaze a trail for women’s rights and now, nearly a year after [...]

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