Ms Rousseff's Workers' Party and its coalition allies are enmeshed in a bribery scandal and the country is going through the worst recession since the 1930s.
The series about two people enmeshed in a vendetta after a road rage incident has become the first show created by Asian Americans, and starring Asians, to win in that category.
I was enmeshed with sandspurs, they stuck to voile skirt and to petticoat, creeping up underneath and getting a firm hold with one or two barbs, leaving the others free to grate against my skin.