What is Happening in BRAZIL?!

Kapitalismus that's all.

It is a mess. There are extremely convincing proofs (audio and video recordings) that the politicians of all main parties are corrupt (the great majority of the legislative power, all the executive power). The judiciary system (up to the supreme court) is denunciated as well. Even the public ministry starts to raise doubts. We are talking about billions of dollars. Only today, it was found in a flat belonging to a minister (in activity) more than 40 million reais (US$ 13M) in cash: the count is not over yet! The president, Michel Temer, is strongly suspected to have asked R$ 500,000 (US$ 160,000) per week from one single company (that could pass whatever amendment/law it wanted). There is a video where a close collaborator of Temer (according to an audio recording of Temer himself talking with the CEO of the company in an unofficial meeting) takes the first payment: a suitcase full of cash. Those are only examples. Every political leader (well, apart from the extreme-left parties) is involved in about a dozen of scandals.

Temer took the power after a legislative coup driven by him and the president of the congress, who is now in jail (and Temer says in the same audio recording that the CEO should keep on paying him monthly briberies). To protect the corrupts. And to apply the neo-liberal politics (the opposite of what people voted for), modifying the constitution to freeze the public expenses for the next 20 years (since the population, especially the oldest, grows, the public services are doomed to worsen and so are the pensions), cutting off social programs, weakening the working legislation, the budget for the science (my area) was divided by more than four in comparison to three years ago, etc. Inequalities are huge and now increasing again: the minimal salary is below US$ 300/month (and stopped growing with Temer), many workers receive it, whereas many people earn 50 times that (and pay less tax in proportion). But those receiving the minimal salary are happy: since the coup, unemployment, which was below 7% in 2015, has almost double: it is above 13%. Temer had 7% of approval the last I saw this figure. Ir must be less now.

Some States are in situations that are much worse than that of the Federation. Typically, the State of Rio de Janeiro has been broken for years: public workers are paid several months later, whereas the ex-governer has tens of millions in foreign accounts (in exchange to superfactured public contracts, to getting the Olympic games, etc.).

A good article by Glenn Greenwald (who lives in Brazil) published the day after the congress voted for the archival of denunciations against Temer: https://theintercept.com/2017/08/03/brazils-corrupt-congress-protects-its-bribe-drenched-president-finalizing-elites-two-year-plot/

I am from Brazil. Temer is still in power. He managed to corrupt his way out of impeachment. Former president Lula is basically wasted by the huge amount of proof and is soon to be locked up for good. One of his former ministers has given up all the Petobras and Odebrecht schemes during his government.

There have been speculations about government cease to supply the common people with insulin, which is basically mass murder... Don't know if this is true, though...

The universities are in somewhat of a critical level nowdays, Temer has notoriously shrink investments in research.

And the country as a whole is pretty much stuffed with criminals, and as usual nobody will do anything about it. For instance, in the city I live there are no cops in the Bus terminals for like 3 months already. People get robbed and even murdered every day, commonly for a cellphone.