4. Consolation for a weakened president

          The article from The Americas regarding to politics in Brazil talks about Dilma Rousseff's popularity and the candidates for next election issues. "UNTIL a couple of months ago polls suggested that Dilma Rousseff was one of the democratic world’s most popular leaders and was sailing towards a second term in a presidential election due next October" after this research Brazilian streets were packed with protests which consequently damaged the president's popularity, from 63% of the votes it decreased to 42%. Although Dilma had to deal with her own problems the other opposing candidates failed to bounce back and gain more popularity despite their own conflicts. The candidate Aecio Neves had great chance of increasing his popularity by being the governor of one of the most populous states in the country, but since he promoted into working in the senate he did not cause many impact, or changes. Neves is also having conflicts with his vice-president Serra who is threatening to exchange parties and will weaken Neves popularity. The other opponent is Eduardo Campos who formelly was allied to Dilma, and the current president of the state of Pernambuco, which is facing issues with his national campaign that is being denied by the Current PT ( Workers Party) because he could be a threat to Dilma's reelection. The last potential opponent to fight for the next presidency is Marina Silva who is recently starting her new party, the Sustainability Network that does not help increase her popularity due to the unkown of her new party. According to the conclusion of the article Dilma will need to come up with "scarce funds for several of their pet projects. The power of incumbency is now her main advantage".
         The article overall is really well displayed, it presents graphics, with data which shows credibility. Also supporting credibility the author mentions many quality sources, such as "IBOPE" and "Datafolha" for example. The way the author concluded the article was smart, he mentiones an important politics analytic, Murilo de Aragao, and concluded that Dilma was "lucky" regarding her opponents lack of efficiency to increase popularity. This article mentions the current protests that are constantly happening in Brazil, but in my opinion it is brief, the author should hava had emphasized more the fact that it is one of the main reasons the president Dilma Rousseff is losing popularity. The way it is written suits well regarding its audience, which could vary from brazilians to pretty much anyone interested in politics, the tone fits the text, not to informal and the vocabulary is completely understandable, in comparison to many politics related articles. The order the opponent candidates is presented can be skeptical, i would have put less emphasis on Neves and more on Marina Silva which is a stronger opponent to Dilma Rousseff. The background information is also vague, it could have been more detailed and showed her ranking in the most popular women of the universe, and explained more how she became who she is and what took her to be that popular to contrast on the conclusion on why she is now less popular.

http://www.economist.com/news/americas/21583262-consolation-weakened-president-own-goals