Expanding the Legacy
Tag: Bolsonaro
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President Bolsonaro Keeps Spending
Army generals are a mostly pliant lot. To reach to the top of the military chain of command it is advisable to follow orders from above without asking too many questions. This helps explain why presidents in Latin America prefer to entrust the running of state-owned enterprises to retired generals...
President Bolsonaro Seeks Early Victory
In Brazil, spending on pensions absorbs fully one third of federal tax revenue. For close to forty years, successive presidents have promised, and failed, to reform the country’s complex pension system which, it is often noted, combines welfare state generosity with pioneer market funding and represents a resilient leftover from the corporatist development model pursued from the late 1960s to the mid-1990s.
Brazil’s Bolsonaro: Looking Behind the Façade
It never takes long for Brazilian voters to regret their choice. After the restoration of democracy in 1985, some eighteen year went by before the country’s electorate turned to an outsider in near desperation over successive failed presidencies. Long discarded as a dangerous extremist by a nation that traditionally seeks compromise and prefers to avoid confrontation, Workers’ Party frontman Luiz Inácio ‘Lula’ da Silva was reluctantly dispatched to the Palacio do Planalto – the Brazilian seat of power.
