Professor Jeffrey W. Rubin: Uneasy Democracies, North and South | Latin American Studies

Professor Jeffrey W. Rubin: Uneasy Democracies, North and South

Professor Rubin wrote an article for Guernica Mag about Brazil and America’s upcoming elections. Here’s a short excerpt of the article:

Donald Trump’s rhetoric of torture, border walls, exclusion of Muslims, and denigration of women has produced widespread unease. As Americans across the political spectrum begin to interpret the new language and emotions roiling the presidential campaign, we realize that the fear and distress Trump fosters will not dissipate soon.

Simultaneously, deep political unease has taken root in Brazil, the western hemisphere’s second largest democracy. The “Car Wash” scandal, involving massive payments from the state-run oil company, Petrobras, to politicians and private firms, has morphed into a media- and street protest-driven clamor for the impeachment of Workers’ Party President Dilma Rousseff.

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