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Dilma Vana Rousseff ( born 14 December 1947) is the 36th and current President of Brazil. She is the first woman to hold the office.
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Amado Boudou still leads a new generation of politicians preparing to run the country, but scandal now dims his youthful glow.The 48-year-old vice president is accused of steering a $55 million contract for printing the nation's money to secret partners through a shadowy shell company used to fund pleasure trips for his friends and family.Boudou claims the media and judiciary invented the scandal, saying "there's a devious plan to try to find a connection to people that I don't have."But opponents say attempts have been made to cover it up, revealing a culture of impunity. The affair is feeding anxieties about a government that seems to be running out of room to stabilize the economy and keep businesses from bailing out of the country.Prosecutors said they found sufficient evidence to pursue illegal enrichment, money-...Brazil's president says the nation has nearly doubled its high-speed internet connections in the past year.President Dilma Rousseff says there are now 72 million suc...
The Rio de Janeiro state government said Friday it will apologize to Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff for the human rights abuses she suffered during the country's...
Conflicts over land issues in Brazil increased last year, although the number of rural activists killed nationally went down slightly, according to a report released...
Deputies in Brazil's lower house of Congress decided late Tuesday to delay a vote on a bill that would revamp the nation's tough environmental law, which activists w...
Brazil's lower house of Congress has approved the main text of a bill that weakens the nation's benchmark environmental law protecting the Amazon.The bill now goes t...
Activists are warning that a proposed revamping of Brazil's tough environmental law could roll back recent historic gains in the fight against Amazon deforestation b...
Activists are warning that a proposed revamp of Brazil's tough environmental law could roll back historic gains in the fight against Amazon deforestation by opening ...
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff faced a tough challenge in simply having to follow in the footsteps of her wildly popular political mentor Luiz Inacio Lula da Sil...
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff faced a tough challenge in simply having to follow in the footsteps of her wildly popular political mentor, Luiz Inacio Lula da Si...
FIFA President Sepp Blatter apologized for remarks by one of his top executives about Brazil's preparations for the 2014 World Cup.Blatter's comments came in a lette...
Brazil and FIFA have put their rift behind them. Now it's time to get to work.A public dispute brought uncertainty over the country's preparations, but both sides ar...
Could this weekend's gathering of about 30 Western Hemisphere leaders be the last Summit of the Americas?The question hung in the air as the leaders convened Sunday ...
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has defended the spending of nearly $12.7 billion on preparing for the 2014 World Cup.Rousseff says the money that will be investe...
FIFA chief Sepp Blatter will meet Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff on Friday to discuss the 2014 World Cup preparations.Soccer's governing body said Tuesday the me...
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff used a line-item veto Friday to send back parts of a congressional bill that loosened the nation's benchmark law protecting the Am...
A freedom of information law has taken effect in Brazil, challenging an embedded culture of secrecy and bureaucracy.Proponents, including President Dilma Rousseff, s...
Brazil is taking steps to lower the spiraling cost of accommodations during the United Nations' upcoming conference on sustainable development, the office of Preside...
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff on Wednesday swore in the seven members of a truth commission created to investigate human rights abuses committed during the nati...
The names of those who will make up a Truth Commission charged with investigating human rights abuses under Brazil's 1964-1985 dictatorship were published Friday, ta...
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