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Dilma

Her Excellency
Dilma Rousseff
Official portrait of Dilma Rousseff
36th President of Brazil
In office
1 January 2011 – 31 August 2016
Vice President Michel Temer
Preceded by Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
Succeeded by Michel Temer
Chief of Staff of the Presidency
In office
21 June 2005 – 31 March 2010
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
Preceded by José Dirceu
Succeeded by Erenice Guerra
Minister of Mines and Energy
In office
1 January 2003 – 21 June 2005
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
Preceded by Francisco Luiz Sibut Gomide
Succeeded by Silas Rondeau
Secretary of Mines, Energy and Communications
In office
1999–2002
Governor Olívio Dutra
Constituency Rio Grande do Sul
Secretary of Mines, Energy and Communications
In office
1993–1994
Governor Alceu Collares
Constituency Rio Grande do Sul
Municipal Secretary of Economy
In office
1 January 1986 – 24 September 1988
Preceded by Jaime Oscar Silva Ungaretti
Succeeded by Políbio Braga
Constituency Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul
Personal details
Born Dilma Vana Rousseff
(1947-12-14) 14 December 1947 (age 69)
Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Political party PDT (1979–1986)
PT (1986–present)
Spouse(s) Cláudio Galeno Linhares (1967–1969); divorced
Carlos Paixão de Araújo (1969–2000); divorced
Children 1
Alma mater Federal University of Minas Gerais
Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
University of Campinas
Signature
Website Official website
Presidential styles of
Dilma Rousseff
Presidential Standard of Brazil.svg
Reference style Excelentíssima Senhora Presidenta da República
"Her Most Excellent Madam President of the Republic"
Spoken style Presidenta da República
"President of the Republic"
Alternative style Senhora Presidenta
"Madam President"

Dilma Vana Rousseff (Brazilian Portuguese: [ˈdʒiwmɐ ˈvɐnɐ ʁuˈsɛf(i)]; born 14 December 1947), a Brazilian economist and politician, was the 36th President of Brazil from 2011 until her impeachment and removal from office on 31 August 2016. She was the first woman to hold the Brazilian presidency and had previously served as Chief of Staff to President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva from 2005 to 2010.

The daughter of a Bulgarian immigrant, Rousseff was raised in an upper middle class household in Belo Horizonte. She became a socialist in her youth and after the 1964 coup d'état joined left-wing and Marxist urban guerrilla groups that fought against the military dictatorship. Rousseff was captured, tortured, and jailed from 1970 to 1972.

After her release, Rousseff rebuilt her life in Porto Alegre with Carlos Araújo, who was her husband for 30 years. They both helped to found the Democratic Labour Party (PDT) in Rio Grande do Sul, and participated in several of the party's electoral campaigns. She became the treasury secretary of Porto Alegre under Alceu Collares, and later Secretary of Energy of Rio Grande do Sul under both Collares and Olívio Dutra. In 2000, after an internal dispute in the Dutra cabinet, she left the PDT and joined the Workers' Party (PT).


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