Brazil Under the Workers' Party

by Sue Branford and Jan Rocha

In 2002, after a long political struggle, Lula was elected Brazil's first working class President amid huge expectations that he and the Workers' Party (PT) would bring much-needed reform. A great deal was achieved, including a dramatic reduction in poverty. But, just months before the staging of the World Cup in 2014, a series of social protests swept across the country. In 2015 further demonstrations erupted, with insistent calls for the impeachment...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1909014001
• ISBN13: 9781909014008
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Latin America Bureau
• Length: 72 Pages