Dilma Rousseff current President of Brazil.
Dilma Vana Rousseff is the first woman to hold the office.
Dilma Vana Rousseff is the first woman to hold the office.
Assumed office
1 January 2011
Dilma Rousseff and Lula meeting Barack Obama in the White House on 14 March 2009, in Washington
Dilma Rousseff in the 2010 Workers' Party National Convention
The President of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff, is awarded the Woodrow Wilson Award in New York City. September 21, 2011.
On 20 September, she received a Woodrow Wilson Public Service Award at the Pierre Hotel in New York City, a distinction which was also given to her predecessor in 2009. On the following day, she became the first woman to open a session of the United Nations General Assembly.Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilma_Rousseff
After stunning World Cup loss:
Brazilian Pres Dilma Rousseff pledges her country will recover.
If Brazil has been shell-shocked since its 7-1 rout by Germany in the semifinals of the World Cup, the President who staked so much on the Cup, Dilma Rousseff, pledged in an exclusive interview with Christiane Amanpour on Wednesday that the loss will not shake the national psyche.
“There is one hallmark and feature about football,” she told Amanpour at the presidential palace in Brasilia. “It is made of victories and defeats. That’s part and parcel of the game.”
“And being able to overcome defeat I think is the feature and hallmark of a major national team and of a great country.”
Brazil, like so many other middle-income countries around the world, has been engaged in the great project of modernization, and lifting millions out of poverty.
Rousseff has had a long education in Brazilian politics – first as a left-wing guerrilla battling Brazil’s military dictatorship, then as right-hand woman to the heavyweight of Brazilian politics, former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
Despite the country’s deep-seated passion for soccer, its move to host the World Cup was controversial. Brazilians across the country turned out in the streets to protest the vast sums the government spent on stadiums and how they were built.
Rousseff was booed and jeered as she watched the opening match pitting the host nation against Croatia.
Now as she gears up for re-election in October, can President Rousseff push forward with Brazil’s grand transformation?
‘My nightmares never got so bad’
It is one thing to lose; it is quite something else to lose like that.
President Rousseff told Amanpour, she never imagined her country facing such a crushing World Cup defeat.
“My nightmares never got so bad, Christiane,” she said. “They never went that far. As a supporter, of course, I am deeply sorry because I share the same sorrow of all supporters. But I also know that we are a country that has one very peculiar feature. We rise to the challenge of adversity.”
Brazil came into the match missing its two star players: captain and main defender, Thiago Silva, and star striker, Neymar.
“Not being a person that is deeply knowledgeable about football, I do believe that there was a significant effect,” Rousseff said.
“Two hundred million Brazilians view themselves as coaches and they all of course will weigh in, voice their opinions about the national team.”
But despite the drubbing, President Rousseff said Germany deserves to be congratulated.
“This is not a war, after all. It is just a game. And that is why football charms us all.”
“So yes, I will greet Angela Merkel, and I will tell the German Chancellor that, yes, her team did play very well. They are to be congratulated.”
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