The President basically campaigned on her view that hosting the World Cup would make Brazil a showcase, that the enormous spending to prepare for the Cup would stimulate the economy, and that the positive experience of millions of tourist fans and international business and political leaders would help create a renaissance.
Instead, it was a cauldron of bribery, incompetence, and inadequacy.
Now it has been capped by the most humilating loss most Brazilian soccer fans (in other words, most Brazilians) can remember.
This just crystallizes Brazilian frustration with Rousseff's empty promises and underperformance.
Rousseff, another marxist failure in South America. I’m willing to bet that Obama and Jay Carney had her picture on one of their walls.
” This just crystallizes Brazilian frustration with Rousseff’s empty promises and underperformance. ”
Sounds familiar - except, we’re losing a country instead of a game
Rousseff’s failure is going to make it hard for any Bulgarians to become President of Brazil in the future...just like Obama’s record will make it very hard for any half-Kenyan Indonesians to become President of the US.
Not to mention the bloody crackdown on the good and the bad to make the city look better.