Brazil's Crisis and the New Right

http://upsidedownworld.org/main/brazil-archives-63/5648-brazils-crisis-and-the-new-right
Date Written:  2016-06-21
Publisher:  Upside Down World
Year Published:  2016
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX19564

The impeachment process against President Dilma Rousseff resulted from the conjunction of three factors: the rupture of the alliance with business owners, the rise of a new militant right, and the PT's serious mistakes after abandoning the streets. What remains is a wounded society and an extractive model that went unquestioned by the left and undermined the hegemony of the Lula current.

Subject Headings

• Brazil