Sebastião Ventura Pereira da Paixão, Author at Public Seminar

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The Fall of the Brazilian Ancien Régime

A view towards the future

July 5, 2018 • by Sebastião Ventura Pereira da Paixão

All the groups that participated in the Brazilian redemocratization process have come to power. Yet, despite the promises, many hopes have turned to dust. Once elected, the policymakers disappointed with their unpreparedness, arrogance, or dishonesty. But there has been some progress, such as the stabilization of the economy and the ...

What Brazilian Democracy Needs

The country cannot advance until it has accountable political leadership

February 27, 2017 • by Sebastião Ventura Pereira da Paixão

If we look at Brazilian politics, we see that the few destroy the lives of the many, condemning our country to backwardness, poverty and thievery. Indeed, they are very few. The problem is that these few are organized and empowered in their usurpation of republican institutions. From time to time, ...

Brazil is not a Capitalist Country

July 20, 2016 • by Sebastião Ventura Pereira da Paixão

The Brazilian Federal Constitution speaks of a "free market" (Art. 170) and describes the state as a "normative and regulating agent of economic activity" (Art. 174). Unfortunately, reality is completely different. We have two worlds in Brazil: the first is the naïve utopia of the legislator; the other is the ...