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Brazil. On Sunday, October 3, 2010, the
Presidency of the Republic, all 513 Chamber of
Deputies seats and 54 out of 81 Federal Senate
seats were contested in this election, along
with governorships and state legislatures of all
26 states and the Federal District.
An estimated 135 million Brazilians went to the polls to vote and they have elected their first female head of government, Dilma Rousseff who won with 55% of the vote.
Rousseff was born in Belo Horizonte, a state capital north of Rio de Janeiro, in 1947, to her mother, a schoolteacher from a ranching family, and father, Pedro Rousseff, a political exile from Bulgaria.
An estimated 135 million Brazilians went to the polls to vote and they have elected their first female head of government, Dilma Rousseff who won with 55% of the vote.
Rousseff was born in Belo Horizonte, a state capital north of Rio de Janeiro, in 1947, to her mother, a schoolteacher from a ranching family, and father, Pedro Rousseff, a political exile from Bulgaria.
At high school Rousseff was inspired by the writings of French political theorist Régis Debray and a comrade who taught her
about Marxism. In 1967 Rousseff joined a radical faction of the Brazilian Socialist Party, subsequently, connected with a small
group called Colina in Belo Horizonte who carried out car thefts, couple of bombings, and bank robberies.
In January 1969, two policemen were fatally shot and one was wounded during a police raid on a Colina house. Rousseff and her friend Claudio Galeno fled to Rio de Janeiro, whom she later married in 1968.
Galeno later went into hiding in Porto Alegre in southern Brazil while Rousseff remained in Rio, where she met Carlos Araujo, a leftist militant and a lawyer. Araujo recalls that meeting it was "love at first sight," as Rousseff was intelligent, beautiful, and "devoted to political struggle." Rousseff and her mates would go through more mergers and divisions of their small militant groups, with Rousseff ending up in Sao Paulo; that's where she was arrested in 1970 after unexpectedly showing up when a colleague was being arrested in a police sting operation, at a bar.
Dilma received six years of imprisonment and 18 years without political rights. The sentence was reduced to three years, and she was released in 1973. In 1976 she gave birth to her daughter and only child, Paula Rousseff Araujo.
In 1993 the state governor of Rio Grande do Sul appointed her secretary of energy.
She left that post the next year, as well as her relationship with Araujo after discovering another woman was pregnant with his child. They reconciled two years later but broke up again in 2000.
Without having completed her master's degree, Rousseff enrolled in a PhD program but that too was interrupted. In 1999 she was appointed to her old job, now called Secretary of Mines, Energy, and Communications.
Rousseff told jubilant supporters speaking at a victory rally in the capital, Brasilia, "We cannot rest while Brazilians are going hungry, while families are living in the streets, while poor children are abandoned to their own fates and while crack and crack dens rule."
"The eradication of extreme poverty is a target that I assume and I humbly ask for the support of you all to help the country overcome this abyss that still separates us from being a developed nation," she added. "This ambitious goal will not be achieved by the government alone. It is a call for the nation."
"I would like for fathers and mothers to look into their daughters' eyes today and tell them: 'Yes, women can,'" she said, promising to battle for equality in and outside government.
In January 1969, two policemen were fatally shot and one was wounded during a police raid on a Colina house. Rousseff and her friend Claudio Galeno fled to Rio de Janeiro, whom she later married in 1968.
Galeno later went into hiding in Porto Alegre in southern Brazil while Rousseff remained in Rio, where she met Carlos Araujo, a leftist militant and a lawyer. Araujo recalls that meeting it was "love at first sight," as Rousseff was intelligent, beautiful, and "devoted to political struggle." Rousseff and her mates would go through more mergers and divisions of their small militant groups, with Rousseff ending up in Sao Paulo; that's where she was arrested in 1970 after unexpectedly showing up when a colleague was being arrested in a police sting operation, at a bar.
Dilma received six years of imprisonment and 18 years without political rights. The sentence was reduced to three years, and she was released in 1973. In 1976 she gave birth to her daughter and only child, Paula Rousseff Araujo.
In 1993 the state governor of Rio Grande do Sul appointed her secretary of energy.
She left that post the next year, as well as her relationship with Araujo after discovering another woman was pregnant with his child. They reconciled two years later but broke up again in 2000.
Without having completed her master's degree, Rousseff enrolled in a PhD program but that too was interrupted. In 1999 she was appointed to her old job, now called Secretary of Mines, Energy, and Communications.
Rousseff told jubilant supporters speaking at a victory rally in the capital, Brasilia, "We cannot rest while Brazilians are going hungry, while families are living in the streets, while poor children are abandoned to their own fates and while crack and crack dens rule."
"The eradication of extreme poverty is a target that I assume and I humbly ask for the support of you all to help the country overcome this abyss that still separates us from being a developed nation," she added. "This ambitious goal will not be achieved by the government alone. It is a call for the nation."
"I would like for fathers and mothers to look into their daughters' eyes today and tell them: 'Yes, women can,'" she said, promising to battle for equality in and outside government.
"The
eradication
of extreme poverty is a target that I assume and I humbly ask for the support of you all to help the country overcome this abyss that still separates us from being a developed nation"
of extreme poverty is a target that I assume and I humbly ask for the support of you all to help the country overcome this abyss that still separates us from being a developed nation"
President Dilma Rousseff