The openMovements series invites leading social scientists to share their research results and perspectives on contemporary social struggles.
Education workers protest against money spent on the Olympics, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 6, 2016. Silvia Izquierdo / Press Association. All rights reserved. The political uncertainties in Brazil are not so unlike the uncertainties of all the Latin American countries that have invested in the democratization process in the past decades, fueled by the refusal to return to a dictatorial system.
The case of Brazil is relevant and thought-provoking because it exposes the limits of the democracy we wanted, on one hand, and the dark prospects of an oligarchic democratic process biased in favor of the economic, financial, political and bureaucratic elites, on the other hand.
