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Dilma Rousseff

36th President of Brazil (2011-2016), 3rd President of the New Development Bank (BRICS) · Brazil · Politicians · Born 1947 · age 78

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Brazil's first woman president, ousted mid-term in 2016 after the Senate convicted her of breaking budgetary laws. The impeachment cleaved the country and ended a career that had already survived torture under the military dictatorship.

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A life in dates

2024Friendship MedalAward2022“There is no more significant geopolitical consequence today than the growing strategic partnership between China and Russia.”In their words23 March 2022quoted in "Brazil’s ex-president Dilma Rousseff: US-China conflict is neoliberalism vs. socialism" by Ben Norton, March 23, 2022.

2014President-elect of BrazilOffice2013“If today is Children's Day, yesterday I said that child... the children's day is mother's day, father's day and teachers' day, but is also the day of the animals.”In their wordsSpeech in Porto Alegre (YouTube), October 12.

Grand Cross with Collar of the Order of the Sun of PeruAward2012Bertha Lutz PrizeAwardCollar of the Order of Isabella the CatholicAward2011President of BrazilOffice2011-20162010“Reality has changed, and we changed with it. However, I never changed sides. I have always been on the side of justice, democracy and social equality.”In their wordsInterview to Veja magazine, February 24.

“It'a an immense joy to be here today. I have received from millions of male and female Brazilians the most important mission of my life.”In their wordsFirst speech after being elected President, October 31.

2008“Any comparison between the military dictatorship and democracy can only come from those who do not value the Brazilian democracy. (...) I am proud to have lied.”In their wordsResponding to Senator José Agripino Maia - former member of ARENA, ruling party of the military dictatorship - in a Senate hearing, May 7.

2005Chief of Staff of the Presidency BrazilOffice2005-20102003Minister of Mines and EnergyOffice2003-20051993State secretary of Rio Grande do SulOffice1993-19941947Born14 December 1947

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  1. There is no more significant geopolitical consequence today than the growing strategic partnership between China and Russia.

    Mar 23, 2022, quoted in "Brazil’s ex-president Dilma Rousseff: US-China conflict is neoliberalism vs. socialism" by Ben Norton, March 23, 2022., Own words

  2. If today is Children's Day, yesterday I said that child... the children's day is mother's day, father's day and teachers' day, but is also the day of the animals.

    2013, Speech in Porto Alegre (YouTube), October 12., Own words

  3. Reality has changed, and we changed with it. However, I never changed sides. I have always been on the side of justice, democracy and social equality.

    2010, Interview to Veja magazine, February 24., Own words

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Friendship Medal2024
Grand Cross with Collar of the Order of the Sun of Peru2013
Collar of the Order of Isabella the Catholic2012
Bertha Lutz Prize2012
Order of Rio Branco
Order of Naval Merit
Order of Stara Planina
Grand Cross of the Order of the Southern Cross
Order of the Southern Cross
Order of Aeronautical Merit
Order of the Aztec Eagle
Order of the Sun of Peru
Order of Military Merit
Order of Isabella the Catholic
Order of Cultural Merit (Brazil)

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Born in 1947 in Belo Horizonte, Rousseff turned socialist as a young woman and joined Marxist guerrilla groups resisting the military regime after the 1964 coup. She was captured, tortured, and jailed from 1970 to 1972. After her release she settled in Porto Alegre, helped found the Democratic Labour Party, and rose through state government as treasury secretary and then energy secretary. She switched to the Workers' Party in 2001 and became Lula's energy minister in 2003, then his chief of staff in 2005. She won the presidency in 2010 and narrowly again in 2014. Impeachment proceedings began in December 2015; the Senate suspended her in May 2016 and voted 61-20 to remove her on 31 August for budgetary violations. She ran for the Senate in 2018 and finished fourth.

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Born 1947 · age 78

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