多年来的财政放纵导致巴西积累了巨大的社会安全负债，而大宗商品价格低迷又大大放大的问题 — — 现在还要加上政治危机 — — 债务现已达到GDP的70%左右，政府不堪重负。
Years of fiscal laxity, mounting social security obligations, and low commodity prices have greatly magnified concerns – now compounded by the political crisis – about the government’s debt burden, which now stands at about 70% of GDP.