The Fall of a Giant: Greed, Corruption and Abuse of Power Undermining Democracy in Brazil

Abstract

This Chapter explores the impact of the financial crisis on Brazilian democracy. We argue that while Brazil is one among many countries facing systemic effects of the 2008 crisis, domestic factors are also important to understand the level of the crisis, and the fragility of democracy at the present. Domestic factors explain, therefore the differences between Brazil and other countries in Latin America and in Europe.

I Want My Country Back...and Also My Crown: Monarchists as a Yardstick for the Contemporary Right in Brazil

“…According to some sources, he maintained contact with Hungary's Victor Orbán and Italy's Matteo Salvini. 90 He resided in Virginia and hobnobbed with the likes of Steve Bannon (arguably an American approximation of Carvalho), who called him "one of the greatest conservative intellectuals in the world." 91 These kinships appear to have endeared him even further to monarchists and to the ex-royal family, with whom Carvalho shared what one journalist called "Bolsonaro's pro-gun, antiabortion, climate-change-skeptical .…”