BRAZIL’S FIRST woman president hit the ground running yesterday, spending her first full day in power holding meetings in her office in the Planalto presidential palace while her compatriots recovered from their new year celebrations.
Dilma Rousseff was sworn in on Saturday afternoon at a ceremony in the capital Brasília, promising to eradicate extreme poverty and turn Brazil into a solidly middle-class country. Normally described as dour and uncharismatic, Ms Rousseff was moved to tears several times during Saturday’s ceremonies that accompanied her taking over from Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
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