Brizola was a Marxist and the favelas were his strongest base
PDT
In battle with PMDB
Brizola was like a cat with many lives surviving the military junta decades
PDT ....FAR LEFT PARTYNOF WORKERS OR LABOR
PMDB ...easily Democratic Movement Party more or less
Use to be the big two parties but there are others now
Brazil is what we will look like in our future
More African and indigenous
More violent
More income disparity
Less civilized ....very divided
Brazil is sort of north south divide too but the south there is the whitest part and most right wing in a liberal nation
Only way right wins again in Brazil is a coup
Otherwise best you can hope for is moderate
Unless a war with someone stokes nationalism....unlikely
It’s a mess
But it has its attributes
My Rio wife and her family strictly forbade mingling with blacks
That's certainly what the elites want - crush the uppity middle class with its interfering notions of a Constitutional Republic, and replace them with a slum underclass that either gives you votes in exchange for handouts or provides unskilled and semi-skilled labor for pennies.
I have a German Mexican friend. Meaning his race is German but he grew up in Mexico. In Mexico, and I am sure it is the same in Brazil, the German community stays together in its own small area. Texas was the same I believe where it had a small European community that stuck to its own and its own business.
One curious thing he told me is how everyone has a dog - for security. In Mexico City, you are nuts to not have a dog to protect your property.