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Don’t Mess With Dilma
A WOMAN IS PRESIDENT IN BOOMING, MACHO BRAZIL. AND SHE'S CALLING ALL THE SHOTS.
NEWSWEEK, by Mac Margolis
Edition September 26, 2011
Brazil: An Economic and Diplomatic Powerhouse
Diplomatic Connetions By Roland Flamini
Edition May-June 2011I
In March, President Barack Obama made a swing through Latin America, visiting Bazil, Chile and El Salvador.
The Soft-Power
Foreign Policy
By Susan Glasser
November 28, 2010
Susan Glasser, Foreign Policy's editor in chief, met Foreign Minister Celso Amorim in Brasilia for a wide-ranging conversation on Brazil's role as the rest rises. Below, the edited excerpts.
In Brazil, from Prisoner to President
The Washington Post
By Lally Weymouth
December 5, 2010
IN BRASILIA
Four weeks ago, Brazilians elected their first female president - Dilma Rousseff, the chosen candidate of Luiz Incio Lula da Silva, Brazil's popular outgoing president. Rousseff comes to power with an unusual background: She fought in the 1960s underground against the military regime that then ruled Brazil, and she was imprisoned and tortured between 1970 and 1972. She then started in local politics and joined Lula's government in 2002 as minister of mines and energy, eventually becoming his chief of staff. On Dec. 2, in her first lengthy interview since the vote, Rousseff spoke about her plans for the next four years. Excerpts:
Seven years of progress, expansion
Miami Herald
BY CELSO AMORIM
August 12,2010
Seven years ago, many reacted with skepticism about the need to make changes in the world economic geography and that Brazil and other countries were ready to play a significant role in the World Trade Organization or gain permanent seats on the U.N. Security Council. Both the world and Brazil have changed quite rapidly. Developing countries have presented higher economic growth, becoming central actors in the world economy.