pa3769c.jpg Paul Lachine

Exhausted Brazil

The demonstrations that are shaking Brazil’s normally laid-back society are channeling a widespread sentiment: enough is enough! But there is little hatred in the street protests, which reflect, instead, a kind of impatient fatigue.

RIO DE JANIERO – The demonstrations that are shaking Brazil’s normally laid-back society are channeling a widespread sentiment: enough is enough! But, with the exception of professional agitators, there is no hatred in the street protests. Instead, there is a kind of impatient fatigue.

Brazilians are tired of being brutalized by public transport in the country’s metropolitan areas; tired of ghastly hospitals; tired of corruption scandals; and tired, especially, of inflation, which has returned like a dreaded disease, once again eroding people’s purchasing power and threatening to return millions to the poverty from which they only recently escaped.

It is difficult to disagree with the protesters. Nevertheless, there are many economic reasons to worry about the effect of the demonstrations.

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