BRAZIL PARALYZED BY NATIONWIDE STRIKE, DRIVEN BY A FAMILIAR GLOBAL DYNAMIC OF ELITE CORRUPTION AND IMPUNITY

JUST OVER ONE year ago, Brazil’s elected president, Dilma Rousseff, was impeached — ostensibly due to budgetary lawbreaking — and replaced with her centrist vice president, Michel Temer. Since then, virtually every aspect of the nation’s political and economic crisis — especially corruption — has worsened.

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