Press TV has conducted an interview with Isaac Bigio, a Latin America expert from London.

The following is a rough transcription of the interview.

Press TV: Now either of the scenarios whether President Dilma Rousseff is reinstated as president or if she is impeached will have broad ripple effects that will be felt in the very existence of everyday lives of Brazilians. Can you walk us through each of the situations which as we speak now each seems pretty much likely?

Bigio: What is going to happen today is going to affect not only Brazil but the whole Latin America, because Brazil is the most populous country in the region and it’s the fifth world economy.

At the moment, what we are experiencing is a sort of legal constitutional coup d’état where the right-wing is trying to oust the leftist president and without clear neo-liberal agenda. With Dilma, she was the first female elected president in Brazil… And with this new government there is no female in any cabinet post, no black people in any cabinet post in a country which has the largest population that comes from slavery.

And if the Senate adopted deposition of, final removal of, Dilma is going to change completely the scene of Brazil and Latin America, because it’s going to give the upper hand to the US and all the neo-liberal and pro-free trade agreement.

In the scenario that Dilma remains in power, which it doesn’t look likely at the moment because it’s an overwhelming majority for the PMD and the PSD in the Senate, in the case that Dilma remains in power, she will need to do some sort of conciliation with the opposition.

And in that way, it’s going to be a kind of victory for the Labor Party. She will like to keep some of the previous social reforms, but she will need to make some concessions to the opposition in order to keep governing this country.