João Pedro Bastos

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With Its Leftist President Gone, Can Brazil Set the Economy Free?

02/26/2017 Mises Wire João Pedro Bastos

As you may know, Brazil’s president Dilma Rousseff, from the Workers Party, was impeached some months ago. Since her impeachment, Vice-president Michel Temer took power as president, and the Brazilian...

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