Dilma Rousseff
Dilma Rousseff is the 36th President of Brazil, and the first woman to
hold the office. Daughter of a Bulgarian immigrant father and a
brazilian schoolteacher mother, 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'état 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.
