Re: <nettime> Brazil: staring into the abyss

[Patrice Riemens <patrice@xs4all.nl>]

On 2018-11-13 16:42, Rafael Evangelista wrote:
> just to say that the absentee rate is not too far from the historical
> trend for federal elections, but I agree with the rest of the
> description 100%.
>
> On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 9:47 AM Felix Stalder <felix@openflows.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I just spent ten days in the city and region of Sao Paulo, talking
> > mainly to artists, academics, activist associated with
> > right-to-the-city
> > and indigenous movements. This is the limited impression I got from
> > this. Please correct, add, deepen it with more substantial
> > information
> > and knowledge.

A good source of info (immo) is Glenn Greenwald's The Intercept:

https://theintercept.com/greenwald/

There was also an interesting article/analysis in this month's Le Monde 
Diplomatique (Bolsanaro was then on the verge of being elected)

A quote from a middle class lady illustrated perfectly the angst of the 
bourgoisie to be overrun by the great unwashed empowered by years of PT 
government. (from memory):

"you know, taking a plane (on a domestic flight) used to be a clubby 
experience. But today 'these people' can afford the airfare and so we're 
now forced to queue together with the riff raf".

It's not looking good at all indeed.
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