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Weekly Report - 06 August 2015 (WR-15-31)
BRAZIL: In Brazil, August is the cruellest month
Agosto, mes do desgosto. By tradition, August augurs ill for Brazilian politics. Last year, Eduardo Campos, the presidential candidate for the Partido Socialista Brasileiro (PSB), was killed in a plane crash in the middle of the month. Sixty-one years ago, Getúlio Vargas shot himself in August; Jânio Quadros resigned in August 1961 and in August 1992, protests led to the impeachment of Fernando Collor de Mello. With major demonstrations planned against the government on 16 August, and a series of challenges expected to President Dilma Rousseff’s austerity plans, this year’s August promises to be uneasy too.
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