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Brazil & Southern Cone - July 2013 (ISSN 1741-4431)
POLITICS: What now?
“Brazil's main problem is not economic, but political,” Manuel Castells, the renowned Spanish sociologist, argued in a recent interview with Folha de São Paulo. “If the political system is not reformed then the hope for change represented by the recent protests will give way to collective anger and individual cynicism.” A few days after the interview, on 9 July, the president of Brazil’s federal chamber of deputies, Henrique Eduardo Alves, rejected the possibility of holding the plebiscite on political reform proposed by President Dilma Rousseff. Though the move represents a setback for the president, sympathetic commentators point out that an intransigent congress blocking popular executive initiatives could boost the president’s ratings ahead of next year’s elections.
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