The
Global South is growing unintelligible from the European South amid
harsh austerity measures and other maneuverings that suit the rich
and powerful at the expense of the poor and working class.
by
Michael Nevradakis
Part
1
Harsh
austerity. A 20-year public spending freeze. A non-elected
government. A coup backed by the United States and corporate world.
This
is the new reality that Brazil has faced following the impeachment of
the democratically-elected Dilma Rousseff in August of 2016 on
charges of corruption.
This
is also a new reality that has been met by widespread disapproval,
occasional large-scale protests, and a new economic uncertainty for a
country which, just a few years ago, was seen as an up-and-coming
economic powerhouse, along with the rest of the BRICS, the bloc
composed of emerging economies of Brazil, Russia, India, China and
South Africa. This optimism has been quickly supplanted by an
increasingly volatile social situation in Brazil and great pessimism
for the future.
Much
has been made in the media about the progressive credentials of the
Rousseff government and that of her predecessor, Luiz Inácio Lula da
Silva, both of whom represented the Workers’ Party (PT) of Brazil.
Much has also been made of the mass protests which led to Rousseff’s
outster, which bore similarities to protests seen in countries such
as Venezuela against the Maduro regime, and the relative lack of
protest that the Temer government has faced since ascending to power.
What
is actually happening, though? As is often the case in such
situations, reality is far more multifaceted and complex than
frequently presented, while parallels can be drawn with other
austerity-ravaged countries such as Greece.
Source,
links, videos:
http://www.mintpressnews.com/brazils-manufactured-coup-the-shock-doctrine-returns-to-latin-america/224823/
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