Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff reacts during the graduation ceremony for The Order of Rio Branco at the Rio Branco Institute, in Itamaraty Palace June 17, 2013. REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino
BRASILIA/SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Few people in Brazil know what it's like to be 20-something and angry at the government quite like President Dilma Rousseff.
Rousseff, a Marxist guerrilla during the 1960s who fought against a military dictatorship, now finds herself on the other side of power. She's struggling to defuse protests by more than 1 million people in the past two weeks that have unsettled markets and could threaten her re-election next year.
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