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| BRASILIA – President Dilma Rousseff, speaking on Friday at the 2011 Human Rights Award in the nation's capital, defended the right to “disagree” in Brazil. Speaking to an audience of people involved in the fight for human rights, the president also criticized social inequality and said “we can not be a country of 190 million with growth only for some.”
Dilma Rousseff at 2011 Human Rights Award (photo: terra.com.br/Wilson Dias/Agência Brasil)
The president said that freedom of the press is one of the best tools in the struggle for human rights. Dilma repeated the maxim that she used during her campaign and in her inauguration speech that she “prefers the noise, sometimes extremely painful, free press than the silence of dictatorships.”
Thanks to reports in Brazil's free press, the president has lost six cabinet ministers to corruption charges and is on the verge of losing a seventh.
The president also took the opportunity to compare the present with the reality of the era of military dictatorship, during which the future leader was imprisoned and tortured. “Going on strike then was a police matter, a matter that could bring jail, a fight for your life, imprisonment and even death,” she said.
Dilma, as she is known here, was speaking during the delivery of the 17th annual Human Rights Award. Today the Human Rights Secretariat of the Presidency delivers awards in 21 categories. The award is the highest award from the Brazilian government to persons and entities who stood out in defense of human rights.
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Brazilian online news source for this article: G1 Politica/terra.com.br
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