Reasons for the decline of lula's political movement

The following article aims to contribute to the debate about the meaning of president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's political and economic cycle and the reasons behind its dramatic decline. It seeks to point some of the causes for the exhaustion of a model that placed itself as an alternative to 90's liberalism, also known as Neoliberalism or the Washington Consensus. As per our hypothesis, one of the reasons for the weakening of the class-conciliatory formula represented by Lula was the growing strength of a capitalistic production standard based on exports and economic specialization, embodied by agrobusiness and the financial sector. Although the great commercial surplus enabled by these sectors were pivotal for the social programs that guaranteed the political success of Lula's movement, agrobusiness, starting with the 2008 financial crisis, played a key role in a power shift that culminated in the colapse of that movement with Dilma Roussef s impeachment in 2016.