Dima+Rousseff

=Dilma Rousseff and Female Presidents by Danica Golmayo=

__Thesis:__
===Dilma Rousseff, Brazil's first female president is facing many challenges as her country is dealing with many problems. She has not taken much action for its problems because she relies on other leaders to help her. I believe that it may take some time for her to govern her country when she receives the right experience since she does not have any.===

Timeline:
1972-1974 A group of rebels formed in the state of Para, the only rural armed movement against the dictatorship.

1973 Brazil’s Agricultural Research Corp. (Empresa Brasileira de Pesquesa Agropecuaria, aka Embrapa) was set up as a public company by the ruling generals. It grew to become the world’s leading tropical research institution.

1974 Mar 15, In Brazil General Ernesto Geisel (1907-1996) became president and ruled for 5 years. He gradually ended political repression, lifted press censorship and allowed political exiles to return. Under his rule the foreign debt doubled to $43 billion.

1974 A meningitis outbreak killed 4,000 people in a few weeks. 90 million people were soon inoculated by a new vaccine created by the French Merieux laboratory.

1976 Gen’l. Juan Jose Torres, ousted as president of Bolivia in 1971, was kidnapped by a death squad in Argentina and killed. He was a victim of the Condor Plan, a South American military pact between Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile and Paraguay to exchange intelligence information and help each other hunt down suspected leftists. 1977 Jun 23, The Brazil congress legalized divorce with a constitutional amendment, despite opposition from Roman Catholic Church. The amendment would be signed into law by President Ernesto Geisel.

1978 Jul 3, The Amazon Pact was established. Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela signed the Amazon Pact, a Brazilian initiative designed to coordinate the joint development of the Amazon Basin.

1978-1996 Over 200,000 sq. miles, 12.5%, of the Amazon rain forest was destroyed. 1980 In Brazil the Workers’ Party (PT) was founded by a group of people including Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Marina Silva. It later became recognized as one of the largest and most important left-wing leadership movements of Latin America.

1980 Inflation in Brazil reached 110%. The rising cost of imported oil, dating back to 1973, increased short term foreign debt and heralded a decade and a half of instability. 1985 Jan 15, Tancredo Neves (1910-1985) became the 1st elected president of Brazil in 21 years. Just one day before he was scheduled to take the oath of office (March 15, 1985), Neves became severely ill. He suffered from abdominal complications and developed generalized infections. After seven operations, Tancredo Neves died on April 21, 1985. He was succeeded by José Sarney, who served to 1990.

1985 Apr 21, Tancredo Neves, elected president of Brazil on Jan 15, died. José Sarney became president. 1990 Aug, Jose Luiz Santana, the former president of Brazil's nuclear energy commission, known by its Portuguese acronym CNEN, said in 2005 that the military was preparing a test explosion when the program was ultimately dismantled in August 1990.

1992 Sep 29, Lawmakers in Brazil voted overwhelmingly to impeach President Fernando Collor de Mello. He was impeached following allegations of corruption in a kickbacks scandal. The proceedings were largely ignored by the Rede Globo TV network. 1994 Jul 1, Brazil under finance minister Henrique Cardoso adopted the Real Plan, named for a new currency fixed to the US dollar with a "crawling peg." Inflation had hit 7,000% as Cardoso launched the new currency. 1994 Dec 12, The Brazilian Supreme Court acquitted former President Fernando Collor de Mello of the corruption charges that had forced him to resign in 1992.

1995 Jan 1, Fernando Henrique Cardoso took office as Brazil's 37th president. He pushed up interest rates to 25% and stabilized the economy. 1997 Mar 3, A hidden camera revealed severe police brutality over three nights at the intersection of Naval and Jose Francisco Braz streets in Sao Paulo. The videotape showed 15 people abused by the police and one man shot dead in a car as it pulled away by officer Octavio Lorenco Gambra, aka Rambo. 1998 Jul 25, It was reported that 5-7% of the drugs in Brazil were faked medicines mostly from India, China and Pakistan.

1999 Nov, Sen Luiz Estevao and a judge were indicted for pocketing funds from a court complex in Sao Paolo with $300 million in cost overruns. 2000 Jul 16, An oil leak in Brazil’s Parana state began near the Getulio Vargas Refinery in Araucaria and dumped over 1 million gallons of crude into a tributary of the Iguacu River. Petrobras was later fined $94 million for the country’s worst spill in 25 years.

2003 Jun 26, Researchers said the Amazon rain forest is disappearing at an increasing rate, mainly because of a growing appetite for farm land.

2004 Apr 7, In Brazil Amazon Indians attacked prospectors who were illegally digging for diamonds. Cinta Larga Indians massacred 29 illegal wildcat diamond miners on their remote northern reservation. 28 Indians were charged in the killings, but the case has stalled over jurisdictional questions.

2005 Mar 31, In Brazil a massacre in Nova Iguacu, outside of Rio, left 29 people dead. The next day state officials said they might have been carried out by police incensed by investigations of brutality and corruption by "bad" cops. In 2006 a court convicted Carlos Jorge Carvalho (32) a state police officer, of taking part in the Baixada massacre. In 2009 ex-officer Julio Cesar de Paula was sentenced to 480 years in prison and ex-officer Marcos Siqueira Costa to 543 years for homicide and belonging to a criminal organization. The length of the sentences was largely symbolic because under Brazilian law no one can serve more than 30 years in prison. 2006 Mar 27, Finance Minister Antonio Palocci, the architect of Brazil's economic recovery and market-friendly fiscal policy, resigned after becoming caught up in a political scandal. His office was party to the illegal disclosure of payments to a bank account belonging to a witness against him in a corruption case.

2007 Feb 14, Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Bolivian President Evo Morales reached a deal late on how much Brazil will pay for Bolivian natural gas, apparently resolving an issue that has deeply divided the neighboring nations for a year.

2007 May 4, Brazil’s Pres. Lula da Silva issued a license allowing Brazil to buy or produce a cheap generic version of AIDS drug efavirenz, bypassing Merck’s patent. The compulsory licensing for efavirenz will allow Brazil to import unbranded copies at a quarter of current prices while paying Merck a nominal royalty. 2008 Jul 19, In Bogota the presidents of Brazil and Colombia vowed to boost trade and investment between their nations ahead of crucial world trade talks next week.

2009 Mar 14, President Barack Obama met with visiting Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva for talks on the economy, energy and the environment.

2010 Feb 12, In Brazil the World's Greatest Party opened, but the everything-goes atmosphere of Carnival that has turned Rio de Janeiro into a giant oceanside den of debauchery was under assault. Amid the law-and-order makeover, a 7-year-old girl prepared to samba before a crowd of thousands as a Carnival drum corps queen. 2011 Jan 1, Brazil's first female president, Dilma Rousseff, took control of Latin America's biggest economy from outgoing popular leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in a triumphant handover ceremony. Rousseff called for an overhaul of the tax code in her inaugural speech before Congress.

2011 Jan 3, Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff kicked off her government with a series of market-friendly signals, including new details on budget cuts and a report that she will turn to the private sector to help solve one of Brazil's biggest infrastructure bottlenecks, a badly needed new terminal at Sao Paulo's main international airport. 2012 Jan 6, In Brazil a group associated with the Roman Catholic Church said a child from an isolated indigenous community in northern Brazil was killed and the body burned in a region where loggers operate. =__Summary:__= ===Dilma Rousseff has been making a few changes to the many problems of Brazil. But with economic problems her recent scandal, and with her not having much political experience, Ms. Rousseff needs all the help she can receive from her political successors. Her political judgement her power has been questioned because of the amid resignation scandal caused by her former chief of staff, Antonio Palocci. In the future, she can become a better and more experienced president.===

Dilma Rousseff wins Brazil's presidential election media type="youtube" key="32vOsfn5YVs" height="315" width="560" Please write your thoughts about the video.

Bibliography:
> > > > > > >
 * "Timeline Brazil." // Timeline Brazil // . Web. 29 May 2012. .
 * "Biography - Portal Brasil." // Biography - Portal Brasil // . Web. 29 May 2012. [].
 * Adario, Paulo. "Dilma Rousseff Must Veto Brazil's Devastating New Forest Code." // The Guardian // . Guardian News and Media, 23 May 2012. Web. 29 May 2012.
 * "Home and Away." //Home and Away//. Web. 29 May 2012. .
 * Geromel, Ricardo. "Infrastructure Problems in Brazil: Equipment Imported by Petrobras From Italy Has Been Stuck in a Port For Over a Month." //Forbes//. Forbes Magazine, 23 Sept. 2011. Web. 29 May 2012. .