>>323264
Actually no, just an authoritarian-leaning, Bolivarian lite social democratic government.
It's a long story, but, to sum up: the current political arena dates back to 1994, when hyperinflation died and elections became contests between the PSDB (Bill Clinton liberal social democrats) and the Worker's Party/PT (initially hardcore democratic socialists), with a third, huge party, the PMDB (big tent, ideology-less institution), supporting whoever's in power. There are also some junior partners to PT (such as the Communist Party of Brazil, not to be mistaken for the Brazilian Communist Party) and PSDB and a slew of tiny, powerless ones.
PT shifted to more moderate stances under Lula's leadership. Lula ruled from 2002 to 2010 as a political genius, gaining large popular support. He externally aligned with the Glorious Bolivarian Revolution, backing Castro, Chavez and Ahmadinejad (but thank God, our institutions are solid enough to allow Venezuela-like Bolivarianism to reign), but intenally, despite implementing gibsmedat programs and expanding the bureaucracy, he kept his predecessor, PSDB's Fernando Henrique Cardoso's fairly competent approach towards the budget and economic policy in general, and the economy went through good years.
By the end of his reign second mandate, he had stability and massive support, but since a president can only rule for two sucessive mandates, he had to pick an incompetent, uncharismatic, weak lackey in his party- Dilma Rousseff- as his sucessor. His economic policies also became more interventionist towards the end of his mandate.
Then come the 2010 elections, and greater spending plus his popularity allow Dilma to reach the Presidency.
Dilma's first mandate was one of stagnation and diminishing stability. Unlike Lula, a pragmatic union leader, Dilma comes from a middle class background and is far more dogmatic on worshipping Keynes. So protectionist measures and interventionism became stronger and the budget broke down. Together with a negative external scenario and her political incompetence, this meant growth stagnated, inflation rose and everything deteriorated. To make things worser, after a wave of pointless protests (initially started by anarchists and other rabble) began in mid-2013, large street protests have become relatively common ocurrences. And the Mensalão scandal was finally judged, and, surprisingly, most involved were convicted though by now they're almost free. Joaquim Barbosa, Lula-appointed nigger president of the Supreme Federal Court, led the pro-conviction wing of the Court and did his best to bring justice to rats like José Dirceu. Sadly, nowadays he's gone and the Court is dominated by government lackeys like Lewandowski.
Still, Lula's support allowed Dilma to win the 2014 elections against the (for PSDB standards) competent Aécio Neves, but only after a fiercely disputed campaign and with a winning margin of merely 3 milion votes. Rising prices mean even the low class, previously PT's core voting base, is now divided and partially backing the opposition.
As soon as she wins, the budget deficit's reality comes to attention and she half-heartedly starts a fiscal reform, cutting spending despite having promised a thousand times not to do it during the elections. The Keynesian minister of finance, Guido Mantega, was replaced by a more pragmatic figure, Joaquim Levy.
Attempts to balance the budget failed to actually balance it, but suceeded in increasing discontent and wiping away what was left of Dilma's popularity. The real devalued, inflation crossed the 10% mark, a recession began, and now even the poor hate Dilma. And now that Joaquim Levy got replaced with a more Keynesian figure, Nelson Barbosa, correcting the budget will be even harder.
The country's economic heart- the Southeast-, faced a huge water crisis in 2015, and a dam burst in a mining area polluted its' largest river, who now runs VIVID ORANGE. Large protests are held every few months.
PT has historic lows in popularity, as Dilma has no rhetorical or political skills whatsoever. Her speeches are tedious to watch, but do sometimes result in gems, such as "praising the cassava", "homo sapiens and women sapiens", "stocking wind" adn the like.
Seeing the sinking ship they were in, previously conservative but pro-PT PMDB members, led by Eduardo Cunha (an old, corrupt man), abandoned the government and joined the opposition, and now actively seek to impeach Dilma. Cunha himself may lose his prominent position, as his own dirty secrets are being revealed.
Speaking of revealed secrets, a new corruption scandal, perhaps greater than Mensalão- the "Petrolão"- continues, pointing shady activities across the entire political spectrum. And evidence of Lula doing illegal acts is starting to show up.
tl;dr weak, powerless government, political crisis, recession and massive popular dissatisfaction