Neogolpismo no Brasil e na Venezuela: uma análise comparativa das correlações de “ameaças” e “escudos” dos governos de Dilma Rousseff e de Nicolás Maduro

Abstract

This dissertation examines the political and social conflicts that existed in Venezuela and Brazil during the second decade of the 21st century, seeking to understand the strategies adopted by PresidentsNicolás Maduro and Dilma Rousseff in order to confront them. The aim is to investigate, from a criticaldialogue with the theoretical model proposed by Pérez-Liñán (2014), what were the "threats" and the "shields" that led the Venezuelan president to stay in power and that led to the fall of the Brazilian one. To fulfill this objective, anchored in the ontological assumptions of contemporary agonistic theory, we will mobilize a theoretical discussion on “neo-coups d’état” in Latin America, addressing how neoliberalism interconnects with this phenomenon. In the methodological scope, we selected the model of Contextual Analysis of Comparative Politics developed by Robert J. Franzese Jr (2007), since it allows to perform a comparative analysis of multidimensional character, allowing to investigate “neo- coups d’état” in their complexity. The research is justified by the fact that “neo-coups d’état” in Latin America are a relatively recent phenomenon, having begun to produce real effects just over a decade ago, besides being a still quite controversial topic in academia.