After being elected president of Brazil, Rousseff reached a position of greater prominence in the list of Forbes magazine with the 68 most powerful people in the world. The PT party candidate, who was behind Gisele Bundchen in a previous survey, is now the 16th most powerful person on the planet, ahead of names like Steve Jobs, 17th, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, 19th, and Secretary of State of the United States, Hillary Clinton, 20th.
* Was that not enough? Last year the president Lula was listed in the same ranking at No. 33, and this year he was not even remembered. How about that?