Greasing the Path to Dilma’s Downfall
Amid a massive oil scandal and a stagnant economy, Brazil’s right has found the opening it’s been waiting for to break 12 years of Workers’ Party rule.
BY MARCH 16, 2015
RiO DE JANEIRO — Brazil’s right has taken to the streets in a way unlike anything the country has seen since the return to democracy nearly three decades ago. On Sunday, hundreds of thousands took part in marches and rallies around the country to voice their discontent with President Dilma Rousseff, her center-left Workers’ Party (PT), a stagnant economy, and a high-profile, wide-ranging corruption scandal at the state-run oil company, Petrobras.
