Renata Giraldi        Reporter Agência Brasil

Brasília – On Sunday, October 2, with a free afternoon in Brussels, president Dilma Rousseff visited the Magritte Museum. René Magritte (1898-1067), a Belgium, was one of the most famous of the surrealist artists. He said that the idea of his paintings was to evoke mystery and make the viewer ask, “What does that mean?” And the answer, according to Magritte, was that it was all an unknowable mystery.

After a full schedule in Brussels, Dilma will travel to Bulgaria, where she will visit relatives of her father, Petar Russev, who was born in Gabrovo, then a tiny village, but now a town of 60,000, located about 200 kilometers from the capital, Sofia. Petar left Bulgaria in 1929 (exactly why he left is not known; it seems to have been politics and finances, probably a combination of both. He left a pregnant wife behind). Petar lived in France and Argentina before settling in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. In Brazil, now called Pedro Rousseff, he married and had three children: a boy and two girls. Pedro Rousseff died in 1962, also leaving a son, Lubun, a half-brother of president Dilma Rousseff, in Bulgaria. Lubun, who never left Bulgaria, corresponded with Dilma. He died in 2007. And there are living relatives still there who will be glad to see their now-famous Brazilian relative.

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