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 [...]
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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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, 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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