Brazil swears in Rousseff
Dilma Rousseff has been sworn in as Brazil’s first female president, succeeding her hugely popular predecessor and mentor Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. Rousseff, 63, who served as Lula’s former cabinet chief, assumed the presidency on Saturday at Brazil’s congress after a short motorcade ride under steady rain in the capital Brasilia, during which she waved to a crowd of an estimated 70,000 supporters. In her first speech to the nation as president, delivered after taking the presidential oath and signing official documents, Rousseff swore to protect the most vulnerable in Brazil and to “govern for all”. She repeatedly paid homage to Lula, saying she had been honoured to serve under “the great…
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