[lbo-talk] backgrounder on Brazil

Andy andy274 at gmail.com
Wed Jan 7 11:57:23 PST 2015


On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 3:19 PM, Andy <andy274 at gmail.com> wrote:


>
> LBOsters,
>
> I have an FB friend from Brazil who is continually posting memes and links
> critical of Dilma Rousseff that seem to have a strong teapartyish theme
> to them - talking about too generous welfare, how horrible Venezuela is,
> that sort of thing. I'm afraid to ask her since it all seems kind of vague
> and ranty. Casual searching doesn't turn up anything particularly radical
> about the current government.
>
> Is there something there like the bourgeois backlash in Venezuela that
> Doug was reporting on a couple months ago?
>

Aha!

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/01/brazil-right-wing-veja/

-- Andy "It's a testament to ketchup that there can be no confusion."



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