Margaret Power interviewed about current opposition to the Brazilian president

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O Estado de São Paulo published an interview with Professor of History Margaret Power on March 29, 2015, about right-wing women in Chile, Brazil, and the United States in the context of the current oppositional demonstrations to Brazilian president Dilma Roussef. 

Margaret Power is a professor of history who focuses on Latin America, women, and gender. Her earlier work explored why a large number of Chilean women opposed the socialist government of Salvador Allende (1970-73) and supported the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990). She also explored various expressions of the global and transnational Right. Currently, she is working on two projects.  One focuses on Norvelt, a New Deal community in southwest Pennsylvania named for Eleanor Roosevelt.  The other one examines the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party, the political organization that led the struggle for independence from the 1920s to the 1950s.