Brazil’s Ex-Guerrilla-in-Chief Isn’t Going Down Without a Fight

For much of the past year, as Brazil plunged into economic and political crisis, President Dilma Rousseff seemed cornered in her bunker. Bookish and awkward, she rarely left the presidential palace, pouring over infrastructure reports, focusing on the technical side of painful austerity measures.

But in recent months, as opposition efforts to impeach her gained momentum, something in her visibly shifted. Rousseff, a former urban guerrilla who refused to break under prolonged torture, snapped out of her state of paralysis. With the crisis now focused on her, she seems to be sending a message: I will not make it easy and step aside.

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