Mark Weisbrot — Attempted coup in Brazil seeks to reverse election results

The attempted coup has traction because of the poor economy in Brazil. Dilma Rousseff and her PT party would not be under the pressure they owing to the economy if they had not adopted a neoliberal policy of austerity, effectively shooting themselves in the foot.

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Attempted coup in Brazil seeks to reverse election results

Mark Weisbrot | co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, and the president of Just Foreign Policy