#  The Impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **October 17, 2023** 

 12:00PM - 01:20PM EDT 

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 **S216, CGIS South**  



 

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 Speaker: **Fernando Limongi**, Professor of Political Science, São Paulo University; Fundação Getulio Vargas  
Moderated by: **Manuel Meléndez-Sánchez**, PhD candidate in the Department of Government, Harvard University; Graduate Student Associate, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies

 Why was president Dilma Rousseff impeached? Why the coalition that supported PT governments for more than a decade fell apart? The answer lies on the internal disputes within the coalition.

 **Fernando Limongi** is is a Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Sao Paulo and at Sao Paulo Economic School at the Getúlio Vargas Foundation. He holds a PhD from the University of Chicago and is the author of *Democracy and Development* (co-author with Adam Przeworski, Michael Alvarez and Jose Antonio Cheibub) and *Executivo e Legislativo na Ordem Constitucional* (co-authored with Argelina Figueiredo). Recently, he published a book reconstructing the political crisis that lead to the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff (Operação Impeachment, Todavia Editora, 2023). Professor Limongi is engaged in a series of project and research groups dealing with democratic rule around the world.

 **Manuel Meléndez-Sánchez** is a PhD candidate in the Department of Government. His research examines contemporary challenges to democratic institutions in Latin America, with a focus on Central America and Mexico. His dissertation explores the causes and consequences of efforts by criminal organizations to influence elections. He is a 2022-23 USIP and Minerva Peace and Security Scholar and a graduate of the University of Oxford and Harvard College. Manuel was born and raised in El Salvador.

 *Presented in collaboration with [Weatherhead Institute for International Affairs](https://wcfia.harvard.edu)*



 

 



 

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