Brazil’s right-wing is on the move

Today, hundreds of thousands joined right-wing protests for ouster of Brazil’s president. They want the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff. Her government is accused of failure in its response to state-owned oil and gas Petrobras crisis. The company is in the midst of an unprecedented financial crisis and a scandal of corruption. The Petrolão (Petrobras scandal) has become a political nightmare for Mrs. Rousseff, whose popularity has hit record lows.

At São Paulo, Brazil biggest city, according to the police, 275.000 of people protested at the Avenida Paulista. According to Datafolha, a local polling company linked to the newspaper Folha de São Paulo, there were 100.000.

Some protesters, like the group SOS Forças Armadas, want the end of Democracy. For them, the solution is simple and very scary: they want a dictatorship. Those right-wingers defend the military regime that ruled from 1964 to 1985, one of the most dark chapter of Brazilian history.