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Brazil & Southern Cone - February 2016 (ISSN 1741-4431)
Brazil: Zika crisis presents opportunity for Rousseff
President Dilma Rousseff, 27 cabinet ministers and the central bank governor accompanied health workers and soldiers on their house-to-house visits on 13 February in various areas of the country on the ‘Day of Mobilisation’ against the Aedes Aegypti mosquito. The president herself spent the day in Rio de Janeiro. Though the city is not one of the worst affected by the current dengue and Zika outbreak, the president wished to emphasise that the possibility of this August’s Olympic Games being affected by the current panic was not up for discussion. Whereas almost every act of political corruption committed over the past decade has been attributed by the opposition to either Rousseff or her predecessor, former president Lula da Silva (2003-2011), so far few are blaming the federal government for Brazil’s Zika outbreak. The crisis therefore represents something of an opportunity for Rousseff to reassert her role as national leader.
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