{"id":18783,"date":"2016-03-13T11:16:08","date_gmt":"2016-03-13T16:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=18783"},"modified":"2016-03-13T11:16:22","modified_gmt":"2016-03-13T16:16:22","slug":"hundreds-of-thousands-stage-massive-street-protests-in-brazil-in-loud-call-for-rousseffs-ouster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=18783","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds Of Thousands Stage Massive Street Protests In Brazil, In Loud Call For Rousseff’s Ouster"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hundreds Of Thousands Stage Massive Street Protests In Brazil, In Loud Call For Rousseff’s Ouster<\/a><\/h3>\n
Back in August,\u00a0we said<\/a>\u00a0that while there are all kinds of charts one could look at on the way to judging just how bad things have truly gotten in Brazil, the most important graphic of all may indeed be this one, which depicts the scope of the various street protests that took place in the country last year.<\/div>\n
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Popular discontent with President Dilma Rousseff has waxed and waned over the last six months along with the prospects for the opposition\u2019s impeachment bid. At times, it looked like Rousseff might be on her way out, but political wrangling and questions about whether House Speaker Eduardo Cunha – the lawmaker pushing hardest for the President\u2019s ouster- \u00a0accepted bribes complicated the process.<\/p>\n

As\u00a0Bloomberg wrote earlier this week<\/a>, a string of recent events tied to the seemingly never-ending Carwash Probe – the 2-year long investigation into corruption involving Petrobras – have\u00a0brought prosecutors ever closer to Rousseff<\/strong>. That, combined with the fact that the country is mired in a deep economic downturn characterized by double-digit inflation and soaring unemployment has the public at wit\u2019s end.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn Feb. 22, Rousseff\u2019s top campaign strategist, Jo\u00e3o Santana, was arrested for allegedly receiving $7.5 million, [then] the magazine IstoE reported that the government\u2019s former leader in the senate, Delc\u00eddio do Amaral, had alleged that Rousseff had pushed judges to release political allies imprisoned on charges of graft,\u201d Bloomberg recounted. Finally,\u00a0former President Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva was held for questioning and five days later, he was charged with money laundering<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The BRL\u00a0soared on the news<\/a>\u00a0as the market apparently believed the chances that Rousseff would be impeached were meaningfully higher after Lula\u2019s detention.<\/p>\n

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