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Former guerilla set to be world's most
powerful woman
By Hugh O'Shaughnessy
11:37 AM Sunday Sep 26, 2010
The world's most powerful woman will start coming into her own next weekend. Stocky and forceful at 63, this former leader of the resistance to a Western-backed military dictatorship (which tortured her) is preparing to take her place as President of Brazil.As head of state, president Dilma Rousseff would outrank Angela Merkel, Germany's Chancellor, and Hillary Clinton, the US Secretary of State: her enormous country of 200 million people is revelling in its new oil wealth.Brazil's growth rate, rivalling China's, is one that Europe and Washington can only envy.Her widely predicted victory in next Sunday's presidential poll will be greeted with delight by millions. It marks the final demolition of the "national security state", an arrangement that conservative governments in the US and Europe once regarded as their best artifice for limiting democracy and reform. It maintained a rotten status quo that kept a vast majority in poverty in Latin America while favouring their rich friends.
Ms Rousseff, the daughter of a Bulgarian immigrant to Brazil and his schoolteacher wife, has benefited from being, in effect, the prime minister of the immensely popular President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the former union leader. But, with a record of determination and success (which includes appearing to have conquered lymphatic cancer), this wife, mother and grandmother will be her own woman. The polls say she has built up an unassailable lead - of more than 50 per cent compared with less than 30 per cent - over her nearest rival, an uninspiring man of the centre called Jose Serra.Few doubt that she will be installed in the Alvorada presidential palace in Brasilia in January. Like President Jose Mujica of Uruguay, Brazil's neighbour, Ms Rousseff is unashamed of a past as an urban guerilla which included battling the generals and spending time in jail as a political prisoner. As a little girl growing up in the provincial city of Belo Horizonte, she says she dreamed successively of becoming a ballerina, a firefighter and a trapeze artist. The nuns at her school took her class to the city's poor area to show them the vast gaps between the middle-class minority and the vast majority of the poor. She remembers that when a young beggar with sad eyes came to her family's door she tore a currency note in half to share with him, not knowing that half a banknote had no value. Her father, Pedro, died when she was 14, but by then he had introduced her to the novels of Zola and Dostoevski. After that, she and her siblings had to work hard with their mother to make ends meet. By 16 she was in POLOP (Workers' Politics), a group outside the traditional Brazilian Communist Party that sought to bring socialism to those who knew little about it. The generals seized power in 1964 and decreed a reign of terror to defend what they called "national security". She joined secretive radical groups that saw nothing wrong with taking up arms against an illegitimate military regime. Besides cosseting the rich and crushing trade unions and the underclass, the generals censored the press, forbidding editors from leaving gaps in newspapers to show where news had been suppressed. Ms Rousseff ended up in the clandestine VAR-Palmares (Palmares Armed Revolutionary Vanguard). In the 1960s and 1970s, members of such organisations seized foreign diplomats for ransom: a US ambassador was swapped for a dozen political prisoners; a German ambassador was exchanged for 40 militants; a Swiss envoy swapped for 70. They also shot foreign torture experts sent to train the generals' death squads. Though she says she never used weapons, she was eventually rounded up and tortured by the secret police in Brazil's equivalent to Abu Ghraib, the Tiradentes prison in Sao Paulo. She was given a 25-month sentence for "subversion" and freed after three years. Today she openly confesses to having "wanted to change the world". In 1973 she moved to the prosperous southern state of Rio Grande do Sul, where her second husband, Carlos Araujo, a lawyer, was finishing a four-year term as a political prisoner (her first marriage with a young left-winger, Claudio Galeno, had not survived the strains of two people being on the run in different cities). She went back to university, started working for the state government in 1975, and had a daughter, Paula. In 1986, she was named finance chief of Porto Alegre, the state capital, where her political talents began to blossom. Yet the 1990s were bitter-sweet years for her. In 1993 she was named secretary of energy for the state, and pulled off the coup of vastly increasing power production, ensuring the state was spared the power cuts that plagued the rest of the country. She had 1,000km of new electric power lines, new dams and thermal power stations built while persuading citizens to switch off the lights whenever they could. Her political star started shining brightly. But in 1994, after 24 years together, she separated from Mr Araujo, though apparently on good terms. At the same time she was torn between academic life and politics, but her attempt to gain a doctorate in social sciences failed in 1998. In 2000 she threw her lot in with Lula and his Partido dos Trabalhadores, or Workers' Party which set its sights successfully on combining economic growth with an attack on poverty. The two immediately hit it off and she became his first energy minister in 2003. Two years later he made her his chief of staff and has since backed her as his successor. She has been by his side as Brazil has found vast new offshore oil deposits, aiding a leader whom many in the European and US media were denouncing a decade ago as a extreme left-wing wrecker to pull 24 million Brazilians out of poverty. Lula stood by her in April last year as she was diagnosed with lymphatic cancer, a condition that was declared under control a year ago. Recent reports of financial irregularities among her staff do not seem to have damaged her popularity. Ms Rousseff is likely to invite President Mujica of Uruguay to her inauguration in the New Year. President Evo Morales of Bolivia, President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela and President Fernando Lugo of Paraguay - other successful South American leaders who have, like her, weathered merciless campaigns of denigration in the Western media - are also sure to be there. It will be a celebration of political decency - and feminism. - THE INDEPENDENT All rights owned or licensed to Independent Print LtdBy Hugh O'Shaughnessy
Enquanto a mídia que vota em Serra esbraveja: Escandolândia, Escandolândia! jornal inglês reconhece favoritismo de Dilma Rousseff e dá como certa a sua vitória no primeiro turno.
Do jornal The Independent
A ex-guerrilheira deverá ser a mulher mais poderosa do mundo
O Brasil possivelmente elegerá uma líder extraordinária na próxima semana
Por Hugh O’Shaughnessy
Tradução: Diego Casaes, original em inglês, aqui
A mulher mais poderosa do mundo surgirá no próximo final de semana. Encorpada e cheia de força aos 63 anos, a ex-líder da resistência de uma ditadura militar (que a torturou) apoiada pelo Ocidente está se preparando para assumir seu lugar como presidenta do Brasil.
Como chefe de Estado, a presidenta Dilma Rousseff seria superior a Angela Merkel, chanceler da Alemanha, e Hillary Clinton, secretária de Estado dos EUA: seu enorme país, com 200 milhões de pessoas está em festa com a nova riqueza: o petróleo. A taxa de crescimento do Brasil, rivalizando com a da China, é tal que a Europa e Washington podem somentar invejar.
Sua ampla vitória prevista no pleito presidencial do próximo domingo será comemorado com prazer por milhões. Marca a destruição final do “Estado de segurança nacional”, um arranjo que governos conservadores, nos EUA e Europa, tinham como seu melhor artifício para limitar a democracia e as reformas. Esse artifício alimentou um estado em decomposição que manteve uma vasta maioria na pobreza na América Latina, enquanto favorecia seus amigos ricos.
Rousseff, filha de um imigrante búlgaro e de uma professora, beneficiou-se em ser, na realidade, a primeira-ministra do imensamente popular, presidente Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, ex-líder sindical. Mas com um histórico de determinação e sucesso (que inclui aparentemente ter vencido um câncer linfático), essa esposa, mãe, e avó será mulher de si mesma. As pesquisas dizem que ela construiu uma vantagem indiscutível – de mais de 50% comparado com os 30% – sobre seu oponente mais próximo, um homem depressivo do centro chamado José Serra. Poucos duvidam que ela se instalará no Palácio Presidencial da Alvorada em Brasília em janeiro de 2011.
Como o presidente José Mujica do Uruguai, vizinho do Brasil, Rousseff não se vergonha de seu passado de guerrilheira urbana que incluiu lutar contra os generais e passar um tempo na prisão como prisioneira política. Enquanto garotinha crescendo na cidade provincial de Belo Horizonte, ela diz ter sonhado sucessivamente em se tornar uma bailarina, bombeira, e trapezista. As freiras na sua escola levaram a sua turma para a área pobre da cidade para mostrar aos alunos as lacunas entre a minoria de classe média e a vasta maioria de pobres. Ela se lembra que quando um jovem pedinte com olhos tristes foi à porta da casa de sua família ela rasgou uma cédula ao meio e dividiu com ele, não sabendo que metade de uma nota não tinha valor.
Seu pai, Pedro, morreu quando ela tinha 14 anos, mas a essa altura ele já tinha lhe apresentado os romances de Zola e Dostoievski. Após isso, ela e seus irmãos tiveram de trabalhar duro com sua mãe para fazer face às despesas. Aos 16, ela estava na POLOP (Política dos Trabalhadores), um grupo desligado do tradicional Partido Comunista Brasileiro que procurava trazer o socialismo para aqueles que pouco sabiam sobre isso.
Os generais tomaram o poder em 1964 e decretaram o reino do terror para defender o que chamavam de “segurança nacional”. Ela ingressou os grupos radicais secretos que não viam nada de errado em empunhar armas contra o regime militar sem legitimidade. Além de mimar os ricos e acabar com os sindicatos e as pessoas de classe mais baixa, os generais censuravam a imprensa, proibindo os editores que deixassem lacunas nos jornais e mostrar onde as notícias tinham sido apagadas.
Roussef acabou entrando na clandestina VAR-Palmares (Vanguarda Revolucionária Armada dos Palmares). Nos anos 1960 e 1970, os membros de tais organizações sequestravam diplomatas estrangeiros por resgate: um embaixador dos EUA foi trocado por uma dúzia de prisioneiros políticos; um embaixador alemão foi trocado por 40 militantes; um emissário suíço foi trocando por 70. Eles também atiraram em peritos em tortura estrangeiros, enviados para treinar os esquadrões da morte dos generais. Embora ela diga que nunca tenha usado armas, ela foi eventualmente presa e torturada pela polícia secreta no equivalente do Brasil ao Abu Ghraib, a prisão Tirandentes em São Paulo. Ela foi sentenciada a 25 meses por “subversão” e libertada após três anos. Hoje ela abertamente confessa ter “desejado mudar o mundo”.
Em 1973, ela se mudou para o próspero estado sulista do Rio Grande do Sul, onde seu segundo marido, Carlos Araújo, advogado, estava complementando um período de 4 anos como prisioneiro político (seu primeiro casamento com um jovem da esquerda, Claudio Galeno, não sobreviveu à tensão de duas pessoas vivendo em cidades diferentes). Ela voltou para a universidade, começou a trabalhar para o governo do estado em 1975 e teve uma filha, Paula.
Em 1986, ela foi nomeada diretora financeira de Porto Alegre, capital do estado, onde seus talentos políticos começaram a florescer. Os anos 1990 foram agridoce para ela. Em 1993 ela foi nomeada secretaria de energia do estado, e proporcionou o vasto aumento da produção de energia, garantido que o estado fosse poupado dos apagões de energia que assolavam o resto do país.
Ela construiu 1.000 km de novas linhas de energia elétrica, novas represas e estações termais de energia, ao mesmo tempo em que persuadia os cidadãos a apagar as luzes quando pudessem. Sua estrela política começou a reluzir brilhantemente. Mas em 1994, após 24 anos juntos, ela se separou de Araújo, embora aparentemente em bons termos. Ao mesmo tempo, ela estava dividida entre a vida acadêmica e a política, mas sua tentativa de adquirir o doutorado em Ciências Sociais falhou em 1998.
Em 2000, ela se projetou junto a Lula e seu Partido dos Trabalhadores, que passou a mirar com sucesso a combinação de crescimento econômico com um ataque à pobreza. Os dois imediatamente se deram bem e ela se tornou sua primeira ministra de energia em 2003. Dois anos depois ele a nomeou chefe da Casa Civil e tem apoiado-a como sua sucessora. Ela estava ao seu lado quando o Brasil descobriu vastas reservas de petróleo no mar, ajudando o líder, o qual muitos na mídia europeia e americana denunciavam há uma década ser um provocador de naufrágios da extrema esquerda, a tirar 24 milhões de brasileiros da pobreza. Lula esteve ao seu lado em abril do ano passado quando ela foi diagnosticada com câncer linfático, uma condição que tinha sido considerada sob controle há um ano. Relatos recentes de irregularidades financeiras entre sua equipe não parecem ter danificado sua popularidade.
Roussef deve provavelmente convidar o presidente Mujica, do Uruguai, para sua posse. O presidente Evo Morales da Bolívia, Hugo Chavez da Venezuela, e Fernando Lugo do Paraguai, outros líderes sul-americanos bem-sucedidos como ela, intemperizados com campanhas de difamação impiedosas pela mídia ocidental, também devem estar lá. Será uma celebração de decência política, e feminismo.
Representação feminina: O lugar de uma mulher… é no governo
Nos anos recentes, representação política feminina esteve em crescimento significante, com mudanças dramáticas tendo ocorrido em cantos inesperados do globo. Em alguns países, as mulheres estão dominando gabinetes e até mesmo câmaras parlamentares. Em comparação, o Reino Unido está atràs, com apenas 22% de assentos na Assembléia sendo ocupados por mulheres.
Bolívia: No gabinete boliviano, 10 homens agora são acompanhados por 10 mulheres. Em 2009, as mulheres ganharam 25% dos assentos na câmara menor, e 47% na câmara superior.
Costa Rica: Em 2010, as mulheres ganharam 39% dos assentos na câmara menor.
Argentina: Em 2009, mulheres ganharam 30% dos assentos na câmara menor e 47% na câmara maior.
Cuba: Em 2009, mulheres ganharam 41% dos assentos na câmara menor.
Rwanda: Em 2009, mulheres ganharam 56% dos assentos na câmara menor, e 35% na câmara maior.
Moçambique: Em 2009, mulheres ganharam 39% dos assentos na câmara menor.
Angola: Em 2009, mulheres ganharam 38% dos assentos na câmara menor.
Suíça: Possui uma mulher-líder do gabinete pela primeira vez. Em 2007, mulheres ganharam 29% dos assentos na câmara menor.
Alemanha: Em 2009, o gabinete tinha seis mulheres e 10 homens. As mulheres ganharam 33% dos assentos na câmara menor.
Espanha: Nove mulheres, comparado com oito homens no gabinete. Em 2008, mulheres ganharam 37% dos assentos na câmara menor.
Noruega: Quantidade igual de homens e mulheres no gabinete. Mulheres ganharam 40% dos assentos na câmara menor.
Dinamarca: Nove mulheres e 10 homens no gabinete. Em 2007, mulheres ganharam 23% dos assentos na câmara menor.
Holanda: Três mulheres e nove homens no gabinete. Em 2010, mulheres ganharam 41% dos assentos na câmara menor.
Charlotte Sewell
The world's most powerful woman will start coming into her own next weekend. Stocky and forceful at 63, this former leader of the resistance to a Western-backed military dictatorship (which tortured her) is preparing to take her place as President of Brazil.
As head of state, president Dilma Rousseff would outrank Angela Merkel, Germany's Chancellor, and Hillary Clinton, the US Secretary of State: her enormous country of 200 million people is revelling in its new oil wealth.
Brazil's growth rate, rivalling China's, is one that Europe and Washington can only envy.
Her widely predicted victory in next Sunday's presidential poll will be greeted with delight by millions. It marks the final demolition of the "national security state", an arrangement that conservative governments in the US and Europe once regarded as their best artifice for limiting democracy and reform. It maintained a rotten status quo that kept a vast majority in poverty in Latin America while favouring their rich friends.
Ms Rousseff, the daughter of a Bulgarian immigrant to Brazil and his schoolteacher wife, has benefited from being, in effect, the prime minister of the immensely popular President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the former union leader.
But, with a record of determination and success (which includes appearing to have conquered lymphatic cancer), this wife, mother and grandmother will be her own woman. The polls say she has built up an unassailable lead - of more than 50 per cent compared with less than 30 per cent - over her nearest rival, an uninspiring man of the centre called Jose Serra.
Few doubt that she will be installed in the Alvorada presidential palace in Brasilia in January.
Like President Jose Mujica of Uruguay, Brazil's neighbour, Ms Rousseff is unashamed of a past as an urban guerilla which included battling the generals and spending time in jail as a political prisoner.
As a little girl growing up in the provincial city of Belo Horizonte, she says she dreamed successively of becoming a ballerina, a firefighter and a trapeze artist.
The nuns at her school took her class to the city's poor area to show them the vast gaps between the middle-class minority and the vast majority of the poor.
She remembers that when a young beggar with sad eyes came to her family's door she tore a currency note in half to share with him, not knowing that half a banknote had no value.
Her father, Pedro, died when she was 14, but by then he had introduced her to the novels of Zola and Dostoevski. After that, she and her siblings had to work hard with their mother to make ends meet. By 16 she was in POLOP (Workers' Politics), a group outside the traditional Brazilian Communist Party that sought to bring socialism to those who knew little about it.
The generals seized power in 1964 and decreed a reign of terror to defend what they called "national security". She joined secretive radical groups that saw nothing wrong with taking up arms against an illegitimate military regime.
Besides cosseting the rich and crushing trade unions and the underclass, the generals censored the press, forbidding editors from leaving gaps in newspapers to show where news had been suppressed.
Ms Rousseff ended up in the clandestine VAR-Palmares (Palmares Armed Revolutionary Vanguard). In the 1960s and 1970s, members of such organisations seized foreign diplomats for ransom: a US ambassador was swapped for a dozen political prisoners; a German ambassador was exchanged for 40 militants; a Swiss envoy swapped for 70. They also shot foreign torture experts sent to train the generals' death squads.
Though she says she never used weapons, she was eventually rounded up and tortured by the secret police in Brazil's equivalent to Abu Ghraib, the Tiradentes prison in Sao Paulo. She was given a 25-month sentence for "subversion" and freed after three years. Today she openly confesses to having "wanted to change the world".
In 1973 she moved to the prosperous southern state of Rio Grande do Sul, where her second husband, Carlos Araujo, a lawyer, was finishing a four-year term as a political prisoner (her first marriage with a young left-winger, Claudio Galeno, had not survived the strains of two people being on the run in different cities). She went back to university, started working for the state government in 1975, and had a daughter, Paula.
In 1986, she was named finance chief of Porto Alegre, the state capital, where her political talents began to blossom. Yet the 1990s were bitter-sweet years for her. In 1993 she was named secretary of energy for the state, and pulled off the coup of vastly increasing power production, ensuring the state was spared the power cuts that plagued the rest of the country.
She had 1,000km of new electric power lines, new dams and thermal power stations built while persuading citizens to switch off the lights whenever they could.
Her political star started shining brightly. But in 1994, after 24 years together, she separated from Mr Araujo, though apparently on good terms. At the same time she was torn between academic life and politics, but her attempt to gain a doctorate in social sciences failed in 1998.
In 2000 she threw her lot in with Lula and his Partido dos Trabalhadores, or Workers' Party which set its sights successfully on combining economic growth with an attack on poverty. The two immediately hit it off and she became his first energy minister in 2003.
Two years later he made her his chief of staff and has since backed her as his successor. She has been by his side as Brazil has found vast new offshore oil deposits, aiding a leader whom many in the European and US media were denouncing a decade ago as a extreme left-wing wrecker to pull 24 million Brazilians out of poverty.
Lula stood by her in April last year as she was diagnosed with lymphatic cancer, a condition that was declared under control a year ago. Recent reports of financial irregularities among her staff do not seem to have damaged her popularity.
Ms Rousseff is likely to invite President Mujica of Uruguay to her inauguration in the New Year. President Evo Morales of Bolivia, President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela and President Fernando Lugo of Paraguay - other successful South American leaders who have, like her, weathered merciless campaigns of denigration in the Western media - are also sure to be there. It will be a celebration of political decency - and feminism.
- THE INDEPENDENT
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