Brazil on the Brink: Perspective from Former President Fernando Henrique Cardoso

GZERO World with Ian Bremmer

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International Relations, Government, Foreign Policy, Gzero World, News Commentary, Trump, News, Global Economy, Geopolitics, Politics, Ian Bremmer

4.6 • 684 Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2021

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Latin America’s largest economy has endured years of economic hardship, a barrage of political scandals, and one of the worst pandemic death tolls in the world. So where does Brazil go from here and how much longer can its president hold onto power? Former President Fernando Henrique Cardoso, who remains one of the most influential political figures in the country, joins Ian Bremmer to discuss Brazil’s increasingly divided society, the potential fate of its current far-right leader, the prospects of his most likely challenger (known to all as “Lula”) the climate crisis in the Amazon, and the country’s complicated relationship with China.

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0:00.0	For us, as a nation, what is important to be in good terms with different parts of the world,
0:05.0	including Latin America?
0:07.0	If we have some importance in the world, because we have some importance in Latin America.
0:11.0	And hopefully, there is no sense that our neighbors, our enemies.
0:16.0	That's not the Brazilian sense.
0:18.0	Hello and welcome to the GZero World Podcast.
0:24.0	Here you'll find extended versions of the interviews from my show on public television.
0:28.4	I'm Ian Bremmer.
0:29.3	And today's show is all about Brazil.
0:32.2	Latin America's largest economy has been through quite a lot in the past few years.
0:37.4	More than a chair, really, from
0:38.8	its worst ever economic recession to an Amazon on fire, quite literally, and of course
0:44.8	the disastrous, one of the world's worst COVID-19 pandemic experiences. And at the country's helm
0:50.6	sits Sierra Bolsonaro, far-right populist president, who some have called the
0:55.7	Trump of the Tropics. As he looks to an uncertain reelection campaign next year, I'm talking to a man
1:01.4	who used to be in that hot seat himself, former Brazilian president Enrique Cardoso.
1:07.3	Let's get to it.
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1:43.4	President Cardosa, so happy to welcome you on G0 World.
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