Abstract
The present article draws up some reflections upon the protests which took place in Brazil on March 15 2015 against the government of President Dilma Rousseff and the Workers Party, having as a reference the metaphor of the palimpsest in order to problematize the old new Brazilian Republic. The aim is to examine how these protests concerning the understanding of the present of the past unveil views of Brazil based on overlapping paradigms of thinking and discourses/political languages pervaded by cultural traditions and grievances, which build and are built in a place of permanent consensus and conflict among historical subjects. Relying on a diverse perception of joining present, past and future, these assumptions unfold into an important issue concerning the labour of denaturalizing the present as a univocal result of an elapsed past, taking into consideration the impermanence of human societies, and thus the provisional character of historical interpretations.
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