A Society Claims For Change, Unaware It Was Being Manipulated
Hamilton William Dos Santos | Sao Paolo, Brazil
Photographer: Hamilton William Dos Santos
Exhibit Title: A Society Claims For Change, Unaware It Was Being Manipulated
Location: Sao Paolo, Brazil
When the Brazilian elite turned out to the streets of Brazil on March 15th 2015 observers knew that changing in the make-up of the political system was coming.
Unlike the massive 2013 protests carried out by Brazilians of all walks of life without a clear leadership, from 2015 onwards the streets were occupied mostly by affluent individuals unhappy not only with the ‘Worker’s Party political corruption’, but also with ‘too much rights’ granted to minorities and the poor in Brazil: wider access to universities, social programmes and lands in the Amazon. They were also more conservative, influenced by the ‘Car Wash’, the sprawling corruption case presided over by the then Federal Judge Sergio Moro.
However, when they took the streets in 2015/2016, people were unaware of the fact that Moro and the lead Prosecutor, Deltan Dallagnol, were teaming-up not only to oust Dilma Rousseff from power, but also to jail Lula as quickly as possible, in order to pave the way for the far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro to get elected President of Brazil.
HAMILTON WILLIAM DOS SANTOS
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