Looking for the Way Out of Brazil’s Crisis

Signs in Sao Paulo protesting the far-right presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro. 
"After thirteen years of Workers’ Party (PT) government, the last two years have witnessed Brazil sink into deepening economic and institutional crisis. In 2016 an 'institutional coup' against PT president Dilma Rousseff saw the establishment of a new government under conservative lawyer Michel Temer, her own former vice-president. Fresh elections are taking place today. Former president Lula da Silva, jailed earlier this year, had hoped to run again and had a strong lead in opinion polls. But he has been barred from running, and the PT is instead fielding Fernando Haddad. Haddad currently trails the 'Brazilian Trump,' the far-right former army officer Jair Messias Bolsonaro, in what threatens to be a fresh electoral shock. The stakes are extremely high, at a moment when it cannot even be assumed that there is any peaceful way out of the crisis. In recent months, violence has exploded in several cities and regions, and there is an ever more imposing army presence in the streets. ..."
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