It used to be this way, but she is using "creative accounting" in order to do that, for example, by making state-owned companies pay some expenses and arguing at the supreme court that these operations are not loans. These maneuvers are nicknamed "pedalada fiscal" (fiscal bike-shredding).

I guess she will be allowed to get away with this because by now the workers party has appointed most of the judges.

Any resemblance with the situation at Venezuela is not mere coincidence, including the situation of the huge state-owned oil monopolies on both countries (Petrobras in Brazil and PDVSA in Venezuela).