I think this is a story about the scary white people who are in the process of kicking the women and brown people out of government. You read the article right? How it says the new president’s cabinet is all white men? How there is nothing in the article that says that the rapists were brown?

The article also points out that a lot of Brazilians are outraged, and don’t want this. It doesn’t paint Brazilians as bad. It paints sensible Brazilians as fighting against a government that does not represent their wants.

Every single thing in this article is true, and it doesn’t even begin to cover the shit-fest that the current ilegitim government is.

I’m Brazilian. I’m glad there has been international reports of how retrograde (and getting worse) Brazil is. Brazilians care a lot about their image outside the country. They get deeply offended by criticism coming from people who are not Brazilians, or from Brazilians who live abroad, so I think this coverage can…

“Your criticisms make me feel guilty, so you’re an imperialist!”

Brazilian woman here. I think the article did a pretty good job in differentiating the most “retrograde” groups from the rest of the population. The fact that they hold more political power at the moment does not mean that they represent our culture (especially considering how unpopular those politicians are). And…

Criticism of Brazil is not criticism of you or of all Brazilians. You shouldn’t take criticisms of your country personally - you should be lucky that someone cares enough to criticize a problem and not sweep it under the rug. As I wrote in another comment, if these criticisms were directed at my country (and many of…

Yes, and I have an issue with the blind optimism of Brazilians; figuring nothing needs to change. My girlfriend is from Brazil, and her mother feeds her complete bullshit in attempt to get her to come home. “Things are getting better here.” “There will be a good job for you now if you come home.” In reality, this is…

But writing articles that reek of “look at the scary brown people with their ‘retrograde culture’” doesn’t help.

“Rape Culture is a given in that country. The entire country is falling apart, and they had a horrid view of women’s place in society to begin with.”

I mean, pretty much every official is currently being impeached or shortly getting impeached. I really think the only thing holding back the eventual revolution at this point is that the Government hasn’t burned every bridge with the cartels who actually control the country.

If by “US-backed”, you mean “the US recognized the resulting government” like everyone other country in the world.

First of all, congratulations on your great article. I must say that you’re completely right. It’s great to see what people who are outside this god-forsaken country think about what’s going on.

Do you feel as though Dilma Rousseff’s ouster was more motivated by sexism than actual corruption?

Those damned Americans, the root of all that ails every other country. Obviously Brazil was doing great things before the “right-wing coup”. lol

There’s no “right-wing coup” in Brazil, the impeachment is a process accepted and guided by the constitution and Dilma comitted a fiscal crime. Let me remind you that she choose Temer as a vice-president cause his party is the majority in the Congress and Senate and that she teamed up with religious political groups…

US backed? Based on what evidence? The impeachment of Rousseff was widely seen as an attempt to silence the corruption probe into Petrobas and done internally by Brazilian politicians. What does the US gain from Temer that it didn’t have with Rousseff?

Currently, Brazilian social media is dominated by the question of whether or not the country suffers from a “rape culture.”

US-backed (Obama), right-wing coup in Brazil which has installed a ‘white minority’ government ruling over a black-majority population.

Brazil has been independent since 1822. And even so, i’m not sure what any of that has to do with sexism.