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54. Brazil's interim government wastes no time erasing Workers' party influence

Brazil's interim government wastes no time erasing Workers' party influence

In just a week, centre-right government has scaled back social policies as ideological shift already has sparked outrage and fear of going backward
Jonathan Watts in Rio de Janeiro 20 May 2016

It is just a week since Michel Temer became interim president of Brazil, but his new centre-right administration already has begun scaling back many of the social policies put in place by Workers’ party governments over the previous 13 years.

Moves are under way to soften the definition of slavery, roll back the demarcation of indigenous land, trim housebuilding programs and sell off state assets in airports, utilities and the post office. Newly appointed ministers also are talking of cutting healthcare spending and reducing the cost of the bolsa familia poverty relief system. Four thousand government jobs have been cut. .........

I can just imagine how selective those job eliminations were!