Childhood and family profile[ edit ] Dilma Rousseff center with her parents and siblings. He arrived in Brazil in the s, already widowed he left behind his son Lyuben, who died in , but soon moved to Buenos Aires , Argentina. Igor Rousseff, Dilma's elder brother, is a lawyer. The family lived in a large house, had three servants, and maintained European habits.
The children had a classical education with both piano and French lessons. After they overcame the initial resistance of the community to accepting foreigners, the family attended traditional clubs and schools. Her father died in , leaving behind about fifteen properties. Its members found themselves divided over methods; some wanted to advocate for the election of a constituent assembly , but others advocated an armed struggle.
Heringer says that "the book inflamed everybody, including Dilma". Galeno, who had joined POLOP in , had served in the Army , participating in the uprising of sailors against the military coup , for which he had been arrested in Ilha das Cobras. They married in in a civil ceremony , after dating for one year. Its activities boiled down to four bank robberies, some stolen cars and two bombings, with no casualties. On 14 January, after some arrests during a bank robbery, they gathered to debate what to do to release them from jail.
At dawn, the police invaded the group's house and they responded by using a machine gun, which killed two policemen and wounded another. They returned home secretly to destroy documents so when in March , the police searched the apartment, no documents were found.
They stayed in Belo Horizonte a few more weeks trying to reorganize Colina, but had to avoid their parents' houses, since these were watched by the military. Rousseff's family had no knowledge of her participation in underground activities. In addition, Galeno had to undergo facial plastic surgery or a similar procedure although he denies this after a sketch of him was released for participating in a bank robbery. Rousseff was 21 and had just finished her fourth semester at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais School of Economics.
