Take a good look at this 1970 photo.

The 22-year-old woman in the photo is about to be examined by a bunch of subtropical inquisitors.

She has just been tortured, electrocuted and waterboarded - what Dick Cheney dismisses as "enhanced interrogation" - for 22 days.

Yet she didn't break down.

Today this woman, Dilma Rousseff, is the President of Brazil - the perennial "country of the future", the world's seventh-largest economy by purchasing power parity (ahead of the UK, France and Italy), a member of the BRICS, and exercising a soft power way beyond music, football and joy of living.

I hate having to do this.. Really I do..


Tue Dec 6, 2011 1:48pm EST

* Brazil Q3 GDP stalls as euro debt crisis widens
* Central bank, gov't have already eased policy
* Consumption, investment both fall on quarter

By Luciana Lopez and Stuart Grudgings
SAO PAULO/RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec 6 (Reuters) - Brazil's
economy stalled in the third quarter as the euro zone debt
crisis dragged on global demand and the country's increasingly
indebted consumers retreated after nearly three years of
buoyant spending.
Latin America's biggest economy posted zero growth from the
previous quarter, the government said on Tuesday, a sharp
slowdown from breakneck annual growth of 7.5 percent in 2010
that far outstripped developed nations.
The downturn has moved to the top of the agenda for
President Dilma Rousseff, who is trying to tame inflation
without derailing the boom that has lifted more than 25 million
people out of poverty in the last decade and made Brazil a rare
bright spot in an otherwise grim global economy.
Brazil's third-quarter slowdown hit sectors that had been
roaring ahead, with consumer spending - about 60 percent of the
economy - slumping for the first time since the end of 2008.
Capital spending fell, as did the industrial sector, which
has struggled for much of this year because of a strong local
currency, which has opened the floodgates to cheap imports,
especially from China.
"The most shocking aspect of the number was the fact that
all demand components contracted," said Mauricio Rosal, chief
economist at Raymond James & Associates in Sao Paulo.
"The reversal ... is very worrisome, and the worst is that
there's not much that can be done about it - we depend on a
solution to the problems in Europe."

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/06/brazil-economy-idUSN1E7B502O20111206

Dilma Rousseff is a woman whose achievements should be recognized...Her tenacity and strength of conviction(s) is obvious...However, this does not mean she is right in every aspect, it does not mean she is right in any aspect......
Considering her life experience(s), to include torture, one must also question not only her mental stability, but her objective.....

"Today this woman, Dilma Rousseff, is the President of Brazil - the perennial "country of the future", the world's seventh-largest economy by purchasing power parity (ahead of the UK, France and Italy), a member of the BRICS, and exercising a soft power way beyond music, football and joy of living"



You are just like the liberals in this country that love to talk about how artificial economic growth coming from a debt induced bubble should be looked at as a great achievement.

Its a tragic comedy.

A tragic comedy is a very good description...

The purpose of this thread was to highlight the role that women can and should play in the world.....

We in Ireland have had two Women Presidents and Wonderful examples of the Female Species they were

Dilma Rousseff was tortured no doubt by macho men and they failed to break her.

It is about time that all women and fair minded men get behind the many women who in my opinion would make a far better job of running the world than the Likes of Bush Blair Cheney.


Cristina Kirchner has been re-elected as President of Argentina.

Saudia Arabia needs a woman in charge.

Enjoy your thread and don't forget to mention Hillary Rodham Clinton as you sing the praises of women in politics.....

Ha! Now THAT would be interesting!

Hilary has Balls...Pity Bill got his licked

she is an American,and that disqualifies her!

Told you so!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

No need to get crude...The topic is Ms. Rousseff....

Good afternoon Con....

That was a compliment I paid Hilary...whats crude about it?

Good Afternoon to you!