Brazilian Women in Politics - Dilma Rousseff, Marina Silva, Rosangela Matheus, Maria Do Rosario, Marta Suplicy, Benedita Da Silva (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 23. Chapters: Dilma Rousseff, Marina Silva, Rosangela Matheus, Maria do Rosario, Marta Suplicy, Benedita da Silva, Zelia Cardoso de Mello, Denise Frossard, Ellen Gracie, Heloisa Helena, Angela Guadagnin, Adalgisa Nery, Esther Figueiredo Ferraz, Roseana Sarney, Erenice Guerra, Micarla de Sousa, Yeda Crusius, Ana Maria Rangel, Luiza Erundina, Luizianne Lins, List of female state governors in Brazil, Cinthia Regia Gomes do Livramento, Wilma de Faria, Ana Julia Carepa, Izalene Tiene, Theolinda Olympio de Araujo. Excerpt: Dilma Vana Rousseff (Brazilian Portuguese: ) (born December 14, 1947) is the 36th and current President of Brazil. She is the first woman to hold the office. Prior to that, in 2005, she also was the first woman to become Chief of Staff of Brazil, appointed by then President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. The daughter of a Bulgarian immigrant father, Rousseff was raised in an upper middle class household in Belo Horizonte. She became a socialist during her youth, and following the 1964 coup d'etat joined various left-wing and Marxist urban guerrilla groups that fought against the military dictatorship. Rousseff was captured and jailed between 1970 and 1972 and reportedly tortured. After her release, Rousseff rebuilt her life in Porto Alegre with Carlos Araujo, who would be her partner for 30 years. Both helped found the Democratic Labour Party (PDT) in Rio Grande do Sul, participating in several of the party's electoral campaigns. She became the Secretary of the Treasury of Porto Alegre in the Alceu Collares administration, and later the Secretary of Energy of Rio Grande do Sul under both Collares and Olivio Dutra administrations. In 2000, after an internal dispute in the Dutra cabinet, she left PDT and joined the Workers' Party (PT). In 2002, Rousseff joined the committee responsible for the energy policy of presidential...