Marina Was Right. Will She Be Brazil’s Next President?
Marina Was Right. Will She Be Brazil’s Next President?
The environmentalist who predicted the crisis is now a slight frontrunner for 2018. But she has her own challenges to face.
This article is adapted from AQ's most recent issue, "Fixing Brazil." To receive the print edition at home, subscribe here.
There was a fleeting moment during Brazil’s 2014 presidential campaign when Marina Silva looked destined to win it all. Having famously escaped poverty, malaria, mercury poisoning, and other horrors growing up in the Amazon, learned how to read at age 16, and transformed herself from a maid into a globally renowned environmentalist, she seemed like an ideal figure to build on Brazil’s social progress while putting an end to the increasingly obvious rot under then-President Dilma Rousseff.
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