Rousseff Bulgarian Kin Sits Out Brazil President Homecoming
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Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff’s visit to Bulgaria this week is being feted as a homecoming by the nation that her father emigrated from eight decades ago. At least one of her ancestral compatriots isn’t celebrating.
The president’s father, Petar Rousseff, fled Bulgaria in 1929, leaving behind unpaid debts from a bankrupt textile company and a pregnant wife he never saw again after settling in South America. That’s the account given by Ana Petrova, who shares a mother with Rousseff’s deceased half-brother: Lyuben Rousev.