Expository Analysis Of Dilma Rousseff

During the early 1960s, Brazil entered a period of unrest caused by the military’s concern over the direction of government policies. The military’s concern rose toward the end of the 1950s due to the president’s perceived connection to communist world leaders. Prior to the Military Coup, the American government demanded that Brazil either move away from leftist policies or be forcefully changed. When Brazil did not comply, the United States, concerned that Brazil would join the communist block in South America, provided money and weapons to help the military overthrow the government. Although the Brazilian Military Coup of 1964 stimulated the Brazilian economy by investing more money into national growth, it was ultimately unsuccessful because

The economy of Brazil is in the top ten largest economies along with the United States. It is the biggest in Latin America. Actually it is the seventh largest in the world. Brazil has used its newly found economic mechanism to syndicate its outcome in South America and show more of a role in the Global Businesses. The Obama Administration’s National Security Strategy recognizes Brazil as a developing center of effect, and greets the management of the country’s joint and global issues. The United States and Brazil associations mostly have been good in the recent years. But Brazil has other strengthening relations with neighboring countries and expanding ties with nontraditional partners in the South that’s developing.

One thing that makes Brazil’s political and legal environment different from that of the United States is the Brazil uses a Roman or Civil law system where the United States uses a Common Law system. This can make navigating the legal system in Brazil a little more difficult for Logic as it is a different legal system then the one the United States uses. The main difference between the two systems is a common law system uses published judicial opinions, whereas a civil law system uses codified statues as their source of supporting a

All three nations would deal with similarities and differences when it came to military forces working within their governments. When Brazil had first gained its independence from Portugal in 1822, Brazil had become a monarchy. The monarchy would only last until 1889, they would then switch over to a republican form of government. After that they would transition into a dictator, followed by several presidents who tried to steer the Brazilian government into a democracy. One president named Juscelino Kubitschek would continue to develop Brazil’s economy; however, his dreams would be very expensive. His successors would try to accomplish his goal for him but it would prove to put the nation into foreign debt and inflation would shoot up. The plan for a land reform did not sit well with many people, they did not support breaking up large estates to give to peasants. The army would then step in taking control of a military coup. For two decades the military would end up controlling Brazil. The generals would focus on economic growth as well as fostering foreign investments. The military would then begin to pour in extensively large investments into the Amazon jungle. The economy would then boom, but the government would cut back on wages and social programs. Henceforth, the standard of living would decline massively. After the government had imposed censorship, the hate of the military government grew quickly. A recession, slow down of the economy took place. After this event, the military generals would decide to step down and allow free

The Proposal of Constitutional Amendment known as PEC 55 will limit basic human rights and it can affect the most vulnerable citizens, causing a retrograde step for the country. This austerity measure establishes that growth in annual public spending will be limited to the previous year’s inflation rate, freezing federal expenditures for the next 20 years. This proposal is inserted in a context of Brazilian political and economic crisis, which reached its peak in 2016. First and most important, if the bill passes, it will restrict government expenses on important sectors of society such as public health, education and social assistance, which affects mainly low-income people in the country. According to Philip Alston, the United Nations Special

For this assignment, I read Cecilia MacDowell Santos’ Women's Police Stations: Gender, Violence, and Justice in Sao Paulo, Brazil (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005). Santos is a professor and the director of Latin American Studies at University of San Francisco. She received her PhD in Sociology from University of California, Berkeley and her Master in Law from University of Sao Paulo. Her research focuses primarily on the legal mobilization within and across borders, violence, political memory, and women’s and human rights. Currently, she teaches courses on gender, development, and globalization, global inequalities and social justice, sociology of law, and Brazilian culture

Violence comes in all forms and shapes within the context of Brazil. Brazil has had a long history of violence due to its colonial history and the contemporary socio-economic conditions that have arisen out of its history. The favelas of Brazil are an example of the extreme violence of all forms that exist in Brazilian society. Through her book The Spectacular Favela: Violence in Modern Brazil, Erika Robb Larkins makes a case on how the violence present in the favela of Rocinha have grown to become spectacles and commodified. These two factors contribute to the continuation of violence within the favelas community in various but connected ways.

The first of these three is the government’s indifference to what is happening. The governments of Brazil and Rio de Janeiro don’t care about what happens in the favelas as long as the gangs pay them and give them their support. This allows the gangs to have even more power in the favelas. They tell the residents of their favela who to vote for and the residents have no option but to vote how they are told or risk being beaten or killed by the gang. The second of these ingredients is that the police do not provide protection for those residents of the favelas because they cannot protect them. In fact, in 1985 Leonel Brizola, the state governor, forbade the police from entering a favela (175). When the police finally started to enter the favelas again, the gangs had become well-organized and a lot harder to fight as the topography of favelas makes them by nature very easy to defend. The final of these three ‘ingredients’ is that the police are underpaid, understaffed and left unaccountable for their actions. The fact that the police are underpaid makes them easily corruptible. Being understaffed the police means that they have a hard time fighting the drug lords that rule their region. Lastly being unaccountable for their actions allows the police to kill and torture residents of the favelas with impunity from the law. They don’t know the

This paper analyzes aspects of Brazil’s colonial history that has influenced contemporary societies. It also describes and critiques measures that have recently been implemented by the Brazilian government in attempt to curb the further deterioration of society.

Following the Olympics in Brazil, Senate opened the impeachment trial against President Dilma Rousseff, the first female leader, who is suspended. The reason for her suspension is accusations of illegally doctoring accounts ahead of her re-election in 2014 to hide a budget shortfall and to keep funding popular social programs. The first two days of trial, witnesses will testify and Rouseff will present her defense on Monday. Voting will be held tuesday, her impeachment is widely expected to happen. This all began in May, since then her vice president, Michel Temer, is the interim president. Massive protest across Brazil have happened because of the political corruption and Brazilians demand Rousseff’s impeachment.

Throughout the 1950s, Brazil continued to see a great deal of economic growth under President Juscelino Kubitschek and his vice president Joao Goulart. Goulart had previously been Vargas’ Minister of labour and was unpopular with the military because he was viewed as dangerously left wing. He was on the ticket because of the coalition between the Labour Party and the Social Democratic Party that had brought Kubitschek to power. (Calvert 1990, 127) Kubitschek unleased a program of accelerated progress that aimed at “fifty years of progress in five,” but despite making Kubitschek a popular leader, even at the end of his term, he left the country with high inflation due to the debts take on to help industrialize. His successor’s attempts to address the situation were hugely unpopular with the poor and he left office less than a year after election, and he was replaced by Goulart. (Wiarda 1996, 122-124)

In Brazil, human trafficking is known all throughout the country. In 2013, the number of reports rose 1500%, and there were 254 documented cases of human trafficking. Brazil’s economic imbalances showed the conditions of human trafficking, since they were struggling economically. Some reports of human trafficking are sex trafficking, slave labor, and domestic servitude. These were known all around the country, involving men, women, and children. Brazil’s government enforced laws to stop the issue of human trafficking, and if someone goes against these laws, one of the penalties is 2 to 8 years in prison. These laws will eventually ban the idea of human trafficking, in Brazil and the entire world.

The extremely conservative Brazilian congress is responsible for the impeachment and the slow destruction of women’s rights. A number of bills prior to the impeachment were introduced and passed that defined personhood as the moment of conception, defined a family as a woman, a man, and a child, further criminalize abortions for victims of rape, and moved to increase the penalty for abortions. It seems like new problems for women are cropping up while the old issues still remain such as violence against women and the acceptance of domestic and sexual abuse in society.

Brazil has some of the most violent cities in the world. The murder rate in Brazil has been going through the roof each year. Some cities have a murder rate of 50 per 50,000 people. Most murder victims are usually male, poor and teenagers. Most of these crimes take place in the infamous favelas of Brazil. Murder is not the only crime leaking in the shallow streets of the favelas. High-profile rape cases, kidnapping, drugs, and weapons dealing in the favelas are the common headlines in Brazil (Griffin, Jo). These crimes are born in the favelas and spread through the streets of Brazil. The economic growth of Brazil over the years has benefited the rich puppeteers of the society, but it has made life more miserable for the poor (McCann, Bryan). Not just in Rio, but favelas have spread throughout many cities in Brazil and now they are the number one birthplace of different types of crimes in the country. In this paper, we will analyze an article published on the online version of ‘The Guardians” regarding the lives of people living in Brazilian slums (favelas).

This basic human right is also not being enforced by the police force, who are not stopping killings in Brazil and are in fact contributing enormously to homicide rates with the large majority of police casualties not being given a fair trial in the Brazilian law courts. The high homicide rates that abuse the right to life, are largely attributed to the high income inequality. The large portion of the population, who are in poverty or extreme poverty, are willing to do anything, even kill, to obtain money from those of a better economic