From a Rooseveltian Dream to the Nightmare of Parliamentary Coup

Singer discusses the Rooseveltian dream of the successors of president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in Brazil which became a nightmare due to parliamentary coup. It persecuted President Dilma Vana Rousseff who arrived at the Presidential Palace on the wings of Rooseveltian ideology. Applied to Brazilian material in times of globalization and neoliberalism, it tore Lulismo apart, driving society to who knows what distant shore, far from the egalitarian aspirations that the Rooseveltian dream had crystallized.