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Brazil & Southern Cone - October 2018
Is Brazil turning Right?
Brazil’s 2018 general election was seen as a salvation moment – in a mix of naïveté and desperation. Since 2013 Brazil has been experiencing intense political turmoil and an unprecedented economic slowdown. In short, the political system had its first fracture with the massive anti-government protests in June 2013. In 2014, the anti-corruption investigation ‘Operação Lava Jato’ uncovered one of (if not) the biggest corruption scandals in world history involving Brazil’s giant construction companies and the state-owned oil company, Petrobras. In 2016, the situation did not get better: after haemorrhaging support for eight months, President Dilma Rousseff was impeached in August. This year’s election, the first round of which was staged on 7 October, offered an opportunity for a new departure that would allow Brazil to overcome its crisis. But the fear is that the country may now be about to turn back dangerously to right-wing authoritarianism.
- Introduction
- Is Brazil turning Right?
- Can Brazil’s electronic voting system be hacked?
- Dire fiscal situation awaits Brazil’s next president
- Low investment causes deterioration of Brazil’s roads
- Far away from the winds of change in Latin America
- Will the fight against corruption and impunity continue?
- Economic Highlights