A neoliberal carnival in Brazil - Al Jazeera English

A neoliberal carnival in Brazil - Al Jazeera English

 

A neoliberal carnival in Brazil

This is not really a coup against Dilma Rousseff but against democracy itself.

Protesters
gather in opposition to Michel Temer, Brazil's acting president, and
his interim government in Sao Paulo, Brazil [Getty]

By

Belen Fernandez

@MariaBelen_Fdez

Belen Fernandez is the author of The Imperial Messenger: Thomas
Friedman at Work, published by Verso. She is a contributing editor at
Jacobin Magazine.

The joke on the street is that Lebanon has no president but Brazil now has a Lebanese one. 

Indeed, Lebanon's ruling elite recently surpassed its two-year anniversary of failure to select a head of state.

But as Brazil's new interim president - Lebanese descendant
Michel Temer - takes over in that country, one suspects Brazilians might
have been better off president-free.