Rousseff was pledging that per capita income

He continued repair work on the side and de Souza, who still also sells lingerie, found a job as a salesperson in a bed, bath and kitchenware shop.The job was back in Niterói, though, meaning a long commute each way. The distance is just 10 kilometers, or six miles, but the ride, because of the sclerotic highway between the two cities, takes 90 minutes. The bus, already full when it arrives from a nearby town, is just as full when she ends her eight-hour shift."I stand on the bus, I stand at work, and then I stand on the way home," she says. "I am worn out by the time I get home."

Brazilian consumers, meanwhile, are more burdened by debt than at any time since the central bank began measuring household credit. Growing defaults last year led banks to cut back on lending.After average yearly economic growth of more than four percent during Lula's two terms, average growth through the end of Rousseff's term isn't expected to exceed much more than two percent. Inflation, a longtime concern, has crept back up to an annual pace of 6.5 percent.The slowdown muddles the message for a government accustomed to telling its citizens - indeed, the entire world - that Brazil has finally made it.

As recently as April, Rousseff was pledging that per capita income would double by 2022 - never mind that economists say that would require average annual growth of at least 6 percent until then. Two marquee events in Brazil, the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympics, are now lightning rods for criticism because of the more than $25 billion needed to host them.Frustration in S?o Gon?alo, a city of 1 million people, has begun to spill onto the street. Its reputation as a hardworking commuter town has begun to change to that of the new hideout for drug gangs and other criminals who have been pushed toward the suburbs because of a pre-Olympic crackdown by police in Rio slums.