The Politics of Citizenship and Rights in Brazil

Lula's first term was interrupted by a very questionable impeachment. The original ideas ar ther having proposed lay a lot more emphasis on using wealth transfer programms to build and strengthen citizenship. There was this idea that this is not just giving people people money, this is also a sort of political education. And certainly in official discourse, it increasingly became less and less important. Once the economic crisis hit in two thousand 15 and people couldn't consume any more, they ated turning against pt.