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Who Actually Wins If Brazil Impeaches Its President?

By Will Carless

AS/COA’s Brian Winter describes the current mood in Brazil as a “fora todos eles” moment due to the lack of viable alternatives if President Dilma Rousseff is impeached.

Flanked by dozens of military police officers on either side, the fence was separating two angry protest groups: one calling for the ouster of President Dilma Rousseff, decked out in green and yellow; the other supporting the embattled leader and her Workers’ Party, in red….

… Brian Winter, vice president of policy at the Americas Society and Council of the Americas, describes the current mood in Brazil as a “fora todos eles” (out with them all) moment. Here’s what he wrote about a post-impeachment Brazil in a recent analysis in Americas Quarterly:

“The sight of figures like Eduardo Cunha, a legislator who faces multiple corruption charges, reminded everyone that several of the PMDB’s leaders are arguably just as tainted as Rousseff by the scandals and economic mismanagement of recent years. The ensuing national mood was best captured by, of all people, a Supreme Court justice caught unaware by an open microphone. ‘My God in heaven, is that the only other choice we have for a government?’ Justice Luís Roberto Barroso was overheard marveling to a group of students. ‘There’s nowhere to run. This is a disaster.’”…

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