Understanding the motives behind the populist trend.
Tag: Brazil
Alvaro Vargas Llosa | Tuesday October 23, 2018 at 1:00 PM PDT
Alvaro Vargas Llosa | Thursday April 14, 2016 at 3:00 PM PDT
A technical committee of the Chamber of Deputies has voted to recommend the impeachment of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff. If two-thirds of the lower house of Congress vote to impeach her, her fate will rest with the Senate, where a simple majority will certainly accept the case. During the process, Rousseff will be suspended…
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Alvaro Vargas Llosa | Monday October 6, 2014 at 9:53 AM PDT
Brazil’s presidential election has confirmed that, after a few weeks in which environmentalist candidate Marina Silva and her “new kind of politics” turned things upside down, everything is back to normal: the governing Workers Party (PT) is a hegemonic force, the Social Democratic Party (PSDB) is a convenient opposition and, despite the increasing impatience…
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