The rights of women and minorities are receding fast since the coup.
It won’t have escaped notice that the president impeached by Brazilian legislators last year was a woman.
How much Dilma Rousseff’s gender had to do with her removal from the highest office is moot. But academic and citizen lawyer Heloisa Melino has no doubts: ‘I see this coup as a very strong backlash against women,’ she tells me as we chat in a café in Rio. Melino is young, forthright and drinks her coffee espresso.
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