The Key to Rousseff’s Future – And Maybe Brazil’s, Too
The Key to Rousseff’s Future – And Maybe Brazil’s, Too
By
Brian Winter
A party with no clear ideology and corruption issues of its own will determine the president’s impeachment, and may soon rule Brazil.
After more than a decade studying Brazil, there are still two things whose popularity I cannot fully explain: bacalhau and the PMDB.
The former is a vile salted codfish that no human being should ever be forced to ingest. The latter is the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party, a shape-shifting, ideologically diverse group of politicians that for the last 20 years has unabashedly supported whomever is...
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