Brazil’s Political Impasse
Brazil is facing its biggest political crisis since the restoration of democracy in 1985. Unfortunately, the political leadership needed to pull the country out of its deep malaise is nowhere in sight.
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SANTIAGO – It was the kind of politics Brazilians thought they had left behind: One day the sitting president appoints a popular former president to her cabinet in order to save him from prosecution, and pundits are quick to conclude that he is in charge. The next day, a federal judge blocks his appointment, claims and counterclaims are filed before the courts, millions take to the streets demanding the president’s impeachment, and no one is quite certain who is in charge.