Economics
Brazil's Ex-Guerrilla-in-Chief Isn't Going Down Without a Fight
- Back in the 1970s, Rousseff was unbent by severe torture
- She emerges from state of paralyisis now to fight impeachment
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For much of the past year, as Brazil plunged into economic and political crisis, President Dilma Rousseff seemed cornered in her bunker. Bookish and awkward, she rarely left the presidential palace, poring over infrastructure reports, focusing on the technical side of painful austerity measures.