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Here’s a take a look at the lifetime of former Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff.
Birth date: December 14, 1947
Birth place: Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Birth title: Dilma Vana Rousseff
Father: Pedro Rousseff, development entrepreneur
Mother: Dilma Jane (da Silva) Rousseff, instructor
Marriages: Carlos Araujo (1973-2000, divorced); Claudio Galeno Linhares (1968-early Nineteen Seventies, divorced)
Children: with Carlos Araujo: Paula, 1976
Education: Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, B.A. Economics, 1977
Prior to working for president, she had by no means run for an elected workplace.
Joined the resistance motion in opposition to the navy dictatorship and was jailed and allegedly tortured within the early Nineteen Seventies.
Rousseff democratized Brazil’s electrical energy sector by the “Luz Para Todos” (Light for All) program, which made electrical energy extensively accessible, even in rural areas.
1986 – Finance secretary for the town of Porto Alegre.
2003 – Is named minister of mines and vitality by President Luis Inácio Lula da Silva.
2003-2010 – Serves as chair of Petrobras, Brazil’s state-run oil firm.
June 2005-March 2010 – Lula da Silva’s chief of employees.
April 2009 – Is recognized with stage one lymphoma and begins therapy. By September, she is said most cancers free.
October 31, 2010 – Wins a run-off election to turn out to be Brazil’s first feminine president.
September 21, 2011 – Becomes the primary feminine chief to kick off the annual United Nations General Assembly debates.
2011 – Allegations of corruption are the premise of her dismissal of six cupboard ministers in her first yr in workplace. Between June and December, her chief of employees, ministers of tourism, agriculture, transportation, sports activities and labor together with 20 transportation workers resign because of the scandal.
September 17, 2013 – The United States and Brazil jointly agree to postpone Rousseff’s state visit to Washington next month due to controversy over reports the US government was spying on her communications.
September 24, 2013 – In a speech earlier than the UN General Assembly, Rousseff speaks about allegations that the US National Security Agency spied on her. “Tampering in such a manner in the lives and affairs of other countries is a breach of international law and, as such, it is an affront to the principles that should otherwise govern relations among countries, especially among friendly nations.”
2014 – Executives at Petrobras are accused of illegally “diverting” billions from the corporate’s accounts for his or her private use or to repay officers. Rousseff served as chair of Petrobras throughout most of the years when the alleged corruption occurred. She denies any information of the corruption.
October 26, 2014 – Is reelected president.
December 2, 2015 – A bid to impeach Rousseff is launched by the speaker of the nation’s decrease home of Congress, Eduardo Cunha. Rousseff has been accused of hiding a budgetary deficit to win reelection in 2014, and opponents blame her for the worst recession in decades.
April 17, 2016 – A complete of 367 lawmakers within the Brazilian parliament’s decrease home vote to question Rousseff, comfortably greater than the two-thirds majority required by regulation. The impeachment motion will next go to the country’s Senate.
May 12, 2016 – The Brazilian Senate votes 55-22 to begin an impeachment trial against Rousseff. Rousseff will step down for 180 days and Vice President Michel Temer will function interim president whereas the trial takes place.
August 4, 2016 – After a ultimate report concludes that causes exist to proceed with formally eradicating Rousseff, the Brazilian Senate impeachment fee votes in favor of making an attempt the suspended president in entrance of the total senate chamber.
August 25, 2016 – Rousseff’s impeachment trial begins.
August 31, 2016 – Brazil’s Senate votes 61-20 in favor of eradicating Rousseff from workplace.
September 5, 2017 – Corruption prices are filed in opposition to Rousseff, her predecessor Lula da Silva, and 6 Workers’ Party members. They are accused of working a prison group, to divert funds from state-owned oil agency Petrobras. The prices are associated to Operation Car Wash, a prolonged cash laundering investigation carried out by the Brazilian authorities. Lula da Silva, Rousseff, and the Workers’ celebration deny the allegations.
October 7, 2018 – Rousseff solely receives 15% of the vote for senator within the common election.
March 24, 2023 – The New Development Bank pronounces its board of governors elected Rousseff as its new president. She is reelected in March 2025.