36th President of Brazil (2011-2016), 3rd President of the New Development Bank (BRICS)
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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.
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…
Sourced, dated quotes from Dilma Rousseff
There is no more significant geopolitical consequence today than the growing strategic partnership between China and Russia.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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