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According to the Congressional Research Service, Dilma Rousseff of the ruling center-left Workers’ Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores, PT) was inaugurated to a four-year presidential term on January 1, 2011. She is Brazil’s first female president. Rousseff inherits a country that has benefited from what many analysts consider 16 years of stable and capable governance under Presidents Cardoso (1995-2002) and Lula (2003- 2010). She has pledged continuity, maintaining generally orthodox economic policies while continuing to assert a role for the state in development. Her 10-party electoral coalition holds significant majorities in both houses of Brazil’s legislature. Although this legislative strength should enable Rousseff to pursue her agenda, keeping the unwieldy coalition together will likely prove challenging. Additional challenges for the Rousseff Administration include strengthening public security, improving the quality of government services, and addressing the country’s overburdened infrastructure.

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Energy and Brazil – United States Relations

Energy has often played a central role in Brazil-United States bilateral relations. In the first half of the twentieth century the United States based Good Roads Movement, fueled by the American Road Builders Association and the American Automobile Association, paved…

Making the Market Work for Brazilian Health Plan Consumers

Brazil’s federal agency (Agência Nacional de Saúde Suplementaror ANS) that regulates the private sector market for health insurance plans announced this month that it would suspend the commercial operations of 288 plans offered by 38 companies operating in the Brazil. As…