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The Problem Of The Brazilian Government

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In this paper, I will be analyzing a conflict that have been very present in the News lately in my country and all over the social networks, which is the political situation before and after the impeachment of the former Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff and the mandate of the new president now in the head of state, Michel Temer.

For this task, I will be using the root-cause analysis as I see it more fit to deal with a more complex subject such as this one.

Defining the problem
The situation is that the Brazilian government faces a massive internal debt that goes way beyond its earnings in taxes. As a result, Brazil’s unemployment rates are hitting records and inflation have been severe, especially with food prices.
This big debt was generated by the last government’s poor administration of its resources, and this is one of the main causes that motivated Dilma Roussef’s impeachment, as she infringed a law of fiscal responsibility, making place for her successor, Michel Temer.
Defenders of the previous government allege that this law have always been infringed by previous governments and it never caused an actual impeachment like now. In their discourse, this whole impeachment process had strictly political motivations and it was a “coup d’état” and a disrespect to Brazilian democracy.
The truth is that no other government have infringed this law so largely like Dilma Rousseff did. She trespassed her spending limit over 20 times more than the president who had

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