Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has found herself in the midst of a political earthquake as the lower house of Congress gave a green light to impeachment over allegedly corrupt politics, while Rousseff defiantly accused her opponents of a political coup.
The leader of Latin America’s largest nation and one of the world’s most important economies has been embroiled in a prolonged and extended anti-corruption campaign that has implicated her, her close associates, and even her popular predecessor Lula de Silva in purported wrongdoing.
What’s interesting about all of this is that the prosecutors are only focusing on the suspected crimes of the ruling party, not the opposition, leading her supporters to claim that this entire stunt is really a regime change inquisition. While it’s too early to say if she’s guilty or not, the world is watching to see what happens next in the political soap opera that’s paralyzed one of the BRICS founding members and a key leader in the multipolar world.
Dmitry Polikanov, a Member of the Board at the PIR Center, a Moscow-based think tank (studio guest); Viktor Heifitz, Director of the Centre for Ibero-American Studies, St. Petersburg State University; and Boris Martynov, Deputy Director at the Russian Academy of Sciences' Institute of Latin American Studies, shared their views.
