"From torture in a dictatorship-era jail cell to the helm of Latin America's largest nation, it's been an unlikely political rise for President Dilma Rousseff, a former Marxist rebel turned career technocrat who claimed Brazil's seat of power..."
http://www.npr.org/2011/01/01/132562633/brazil-swears-in-its-first-female-president
http://www.npr.org/2011/01/01/132562633/brazil-swears-in-its-first-female-president