Will this be the last election of Brazil’s New Republic?
PT has come to represent Brazil’s political centre. The right has abandoned its end of the democratic bargain.
Tag: Corruption
Political elite has lost grip, left can’t take advantage
I was on The Real News this week discussing a(nother) mad week in Brazil. There are effectively four major threads to anti-corruption charges now, two against Temer/PMDB and two against Lula/PT. I won’t recap them here but instead tease out some deeper implications of what I said on the programme. (For a good summary, Stephanie Nolen … Continue reading Political elite has lost grip, left can’t take advantage
The Real News appearance
I was interviewed on The Real News yesterday about Lava Jato and the political vaccum Brazil faces.
The List Lands: Who can reconstitute democracy after this bombshell?
By 6 PM on the night of Tuesday 11 April, the plenaries of Brazil’s house and senate were empty. A long-promised political holocaust had arrived. Supreme Court Justice Edson Fachin had just authorised corruption investigations into nearly a third of interim president Temer’s cabinet, and a similar proportion of senators. The list to be investigated … Continue reading The List Lands: Who can reconstitute democracy after this bombshell?
Dirty Hands, Broken Carwash – now in Portuguese
My October piece on the politicisation of the Lava Jato investigations – originally published here and in Brasil Wire has been updated and republished in translation in Brazil’s Revista Maquiavel. The initiation last night of investigations into leading politicians across the spectrum has changed matters somewhat, but the principle points remain valid, I think. Basically, it’s the following: you … Continue reading Dirty Hands, Broken Carwash – now in Portuguese
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