Ruth Vilaca Correia Leite Cardoso GCIH was a Brazilian anthropologist and a member of the faculty of philosophy, letters and human sciences at the University of Sao Paulo.
10 Facts About Ruth Cardoso
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Ruth Cardoso was the wife of 34th president of Brazil, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, and First Lady of her country between 1995 and 2003.
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Ruth Cardoso was an associate member of the Center for Latin American Studies of the University of Cambridge.
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Under Dr Ruth Cardoso, Cebrap created Brazil's first research group on social movements, helping to legitimate formal academic study of the "new" social movements that had emerged in the 1970s.
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Unlike many academics, Dr Ruth Cardoso had the opportunity to put some of her theories into practice after her husband was elected president.
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Ruth Cardoso transformed the traditional charity approach of other first ladies with her Comunidade Solidaria programs that stressed the role of non-governmental organizations in state-society partnerships.
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Ruth Cardoso published a book about these experiences, Comunidade Solidaria: Fortalecendo a Sociedade, Promovendo O Desenvolvimento.
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Ruth Cardoso transformed the Comunidade Solidaria into an NGO, Comunitas, after her husband left office.
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Ruth Cardoso died in Sao Paulo on 24 June 2008, after suffering a cardiac arrest.
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Ruth Cardoso had been discharged from the Sirio-Libanes Hospital the previous day, 23 June 2008, having previously been admitted with chest pains.