Dilma Vana Rousseff Economist; 36th President of Brazil. First woman to hold the office; Brazil; 5th largest population and 8th largest economy in the world; complicated; Glenn Greenwald; 190million people there (compared to 319million in USA); In 2002, the Worker's Party of Brazil has won 4 elections in a row; the ruling class hates the Worker's Party; Dilma Vana Rousseff is the daughter of a member of the Communist Bulgarian Party who immigrated to Brazil for political reasons. Dilma's Bulgarian father, P etar Rusev, died in 1962 when she was 15. As a student in the 60s, she campaigned locally at first for better street lighting, and then, during the 21-year dictatorship, for revolutionary change in Brazil’s politics. Apolo Lisboa, a comrade from her early days in the clandestine Marxist group Política Operária (Workers’ Politics, or Polop), recalls Rousseff as a familiar figure among the activists who held debates on the Vietnam war an...