Rousseff's Impeachment In Brazil

In 2016, the Oxford Dictionary chose post-truth as the word of the year, due to the popularity it gained in Political Science literature. Publishers of The Economist and The New York Times, for instance, used this expression to describe Donald Trump’s campaign and Brexit’s consequences. The adjective refers to “relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief”. Likewise, the global scenario points out to an era in which looks are even more deceiving and emotional arguments trigger mass support. Within the same time frame, Brazil dealt with Dilma Rousseff’s impeachment, conceived as one of its most alarming institutional crisis since redemocratization