President Chávez backs Roussef as Lula's successor
During the opening of the International Book Fair 2009 (Fitven), Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez lobbied for Brazilian Minister Dilma Rousseff as the next president of Brazil.
"It's good for us to say this name, repeat it, and prompting here Brazilian Minister Dilma Rousseff as the new president of Brazil. Dilma, Dilma, Dilma," said Chávez, as quoted by AFP.
"We will get to know her. She was a prisoner of the rightwing dictatorship and tortured," said Chávez, who added that she was a member of "the revolutionary leftwing in the sixties."
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