Brazilian President Rousseff Lights up World Social Forum in Porto Alegre

(01-26-12) PORTO ALEGRE, BRAZIL   “Estamos ganando esta batalla, como nos muestran los 40 millones de brasileños y brasileñas que salieron de la miseria y ascendieron a las clases medias y nuestros esfuerzos para erradicar esta llaga social en los próximos años”, apuntó Rousseff, durante su alocución en el Foro Social Mundial, el cual está desarrollándose en la ciudad brasileña de Porto Alegre. En este sentido, resaltó la determinación de hacer cumplir el programa “Brasil sin miseria”.

"We are winning this battle, as we show the 40 million Brazilians who came from poverty and rose to the middle class, our efforts to eradicate this social wound in the coming years," said Rousseff, during her speech at the Forum World social, which is developed in the Brazilian city of Porto Alegre. In this regard, stressed the determination to enforce the program "Brazil without misery."

“Es posible crecer, proteger, incluir y conservar”

"It's possible to grow, protect, contain and preserve"

"Sustainable development means the deepening of social participation mechanisms, strengthening of our democracy, incentives and defending our values, our cultural diversity"

She called for the construction of a development model that links growth and employment generation, social participation and expansion of rights.

The Brazilian President explained that the country's success is not an economic miracle, but the result of hard work by a nation that had decided to find it's own way, and that no one will be able to take down what the People of Brazil have established. "Another World is Possible" she cheered with the crowd.

This was but one stop in a rough itinerary that had her traveling through Brazil most of the day, nonetheless, her energy lit up this high moment at the World Social Forum, which continues through Sunday, running parallel to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.