This Stunning Fact About Corruption In Brazil Helps Explain Its Political Crisis
This Stunning Fact About Corruption In Brazil Helps Explain Its Political Crisis
The combination of the massive corruption scandal and “the recession is driving the anger” of protesters, comments AS/COA’s Brian Winter.
Late Sunday night, Brazil's lower house of Congress voted to impeach the president, Dilma Rousseff. The charges will now go to the Brazilian senate, which will decide whether Rousseff can keep her job.
Ostensibly, the case is about a cover-up: Rousseff allegedly fudged government accounting to hide the scope of the government's deficit problem during the 2014 reelection campaign….
…. The combination of the massive corruption scandal and the recession drove literally millions of protesters into the street calling for Rousseff's ouster.
"The recession is driving the anger," Brian Winter, the vice president of the Americas Society and Council on the Americas, told me last month. "There was a corruption scandal of smaller, but still epic proportions, 10 years ago ... and the [incumbent] government survived, in large part because the economy was good."…
