Dilma Rousseff: From fugitive guerrilla to Brazil's new president

[Judi Lynn]

Source: CNN

Dilma Rousseff: From fugitive guerrilla to Brazil's new president
By Helena de Moura, CNN
October 31, 2010 10:53 p.m. EDT

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Dilma Rousseff was once one of most Brazil's most wanted fugitives, branded by some as a
"subversive Joan of Arc."

(CNN) -- Dilma Rousseff, who was elected as Brazil's first female president on Sunday, once told reporters that as a typical Brazilian girl in the 1950s she dreamed of becoming a ballerina.

But as the 1960s saw the emergence of a brutal military regime in her country, she had to make some hard choices.

"I quickly discovered that the world had no place for debutantes," Rousseff told reporters.

The daughter of a well-educated Bulgarian emigre, Rousseff took piano lessons as a child and was educated in a French-speaking Catholic school.



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