Opinion, by Michael Royster
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Back in August 2015, the Curmudgeon likened the political situation in Brazil to the 1973 film epic “High Plains Drifter” starring Clint Eastwood as an anonymous rider who crosses the high plains until reaching Lago, a town threatened by a band of outlaws, whom he defeats. “Planalto” (meaning high plains) is synecdoche for the Brazilian government; Brasília, where outlaws teem, borders the artificial “Lago Paranoá”.
The Curmudgeon wrote that Brazil needed a High Plains Drifter to replace Dilma as President and lay waste to the outlaws besieging the Lago. Furthermore, he . . .
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