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Brazil elects 1st female president (Bradley Brooks, Boston.com, 11/1/2010)
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Brazil elects 1st female president

Ex-Marxist rebel Rousseff succeeds popular de Silva


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SAO PAULO — A former Marxist guerrilla who was imprisoned and tortured during Brazil’s long dictatorship was elected yesterday as president of Latin America’s biggest nation, a country in the midst of an economic and political rise.

With 99 percent of the vote counted, ruling-party candidate Dilma Rousseff had 56 percent, compared with 44 percent for her centrist rival, Jose Serra, according to the Supreme Electoral Court.

Rousseff, the hand-chosen successor to wildly popular President Luiz Inacio “Lula’’ da Silva, cemented her image to Silva’s, whose policies she promises to continue. She will become Brazil’s first female leader when Silva exits Jan. 1.

The new president will lead a nation on the rise, a country that will host the 2014 World Cup and that is expected to be the globe’s fifth-largest economy by the time it hosts the 2016 Summer Olympics. It has also recently discovered massive oil reserves off its coast.

Both Rousseff and Serra are economists by training.

“Starting tomorrow, we begin a new stage of democracy,’’ Rousseff, 62, said in the southern city of Porto Alegre, where she cast her vote. “I will rule for everyone, speak with all Brazilians, without exception.’’

 

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Looks like the South is leading where the North has failed. Congratulations to Rousseff, and congratulations to Brazil.




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Congrats to her.  Looks like every 3rd world and developing nation will have elected a female leader at one point before the U.S.

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