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This week, a gang of corrupt criminals is going to overthrow one of the world's largest democracies in the most brazen imaginable way, by abuse of legislative power with a completely fabricated lie.Will the people of Brazil tolerate this? I doubt it. Expect a revolution.
Embattled Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff is slated to testify today at her impeachment triala trial that many are calling a coup by her right-wing political rivals. Rousseff has denounced the proceedings and called for early elections to unite the country. Rousseffs impeachment stems from accusations she tampered with government accounts to hide a budget deficit. She was suspended earlier this year and has maintained her innocence, accusing her political opponents of spearheading the proceedings to shield themselves from prosecution and undo years of progressive policies. The Brazilian group Transparency Brazil says 60 percent of Brazilian lawmakers are currently under criminal investigation or have already been convicted of crimes ranging from corruption to election fraud. Rousseffs opponents now need 54 votes, or two-thirds of the 81-seat Senate, to convict her of violating budget laws. Her impeachment would end 13 years of left-wing Workers Party rule in Brazil and bring to power interim President Michel Temer for the remaining two years of Rousseffs term. Temer is also deeply unpopular and currently under investigation himself, accused of receiving illegal campaign contributions linked to the state oil company Petrobras.
WATCH on Democracy Now
Watch the impeachment LIVE here:
Impeachment - Sessão Extraordinária - 29/08/2016
brooklynite
(94,852 posts)Coyotl
(15,262 posts)As Corruption Engulfs Brazils Interim President, Mask Has Fallen Off Protest Movement
Glenn Greenwald on Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff's Impeachment
Glenn Greenwald and Erick Dau Aug. 5 2016,
.... there has been a new set of political leaders who rule the country from the very same center and right-wing parties, and often the very same people, who were repeatedly rejected by voters as they sought to obtain the political power they now, without an election, are fortunate enough to wield.
Beyond the anti-democratic means they used to seize power, Brazils new leaders most of whom were also key plotters in Rousseffs removal are themselves the targets of serious corruption investigations, drowning in all sorts of official allegations. ..... Thanks to the legal privilege high-level Brazilian officials have gifted themselves whereby they can only be tried by the nations Supreme Court, which is so backlogged that it will be many, many years before that is remotely possible most of these corruption scandals are unlikely to be legally adjudicated for some time. .......
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)were about Dilma, and that was only to pimp some non-existent U.S. angle...
If Greenwald was *REALLY* writing about what's going on in Brazil, he'd have to sleep in a bulletproof vest...
OBenario
(604 posts)He's doing a great job covering Brazilian politics to Brazilians.
Not everything is about the US, you know...
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)about this very much. They have no respect for governments of the people, not ours, not anyone's.
I'm seeing it first hand.
Takket
(21,657 posts)They can take any innocuous story and twist it until half the country is outraged over it. The GOP slashed funding for Benghazi security, which no one ever talks about, and they still manage to pin it on Hillary. And the email story at its core is "she put emails on a server she shouldn't have but nothing bad happened and tis all fixed now". Yet somehow people think this is the worst cover-up since Watergate.
So you are very much right.... with control of the politicians and the press, the oligarchy can pretty much undermine anything.
Jeffersons Ghost
(15,235 posts)Jeffersons Ghost
(15,235 posts)After Trump was advised "Three Brazilian soldiers were killed, recently." He said, THAT'S TERRIBLE! Then, he quietly asked an aid, "How many trillion is there in a brazillion?"
With sex scandals on the horizon and his Drumpf name changed into Trump, watch this wall he plans to build around "NEW MEXICO" according to comments made by Teflon Don. The animated gif appears to keep time with the song.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Nice to see Pierre's $250m didn't totally go up in smoke for one slanted English-language news blog...
This is the first I've heard of it, surprisingly... Not that I'm a regular visitor to his site...
It would be nice if he turned his eye towards Syria once in awhile, but sadly he can't blame the U.S. for what's happening over there so he must ignore it...
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)Americans.....only Americans would think a former
Wall St. attorney is a journalist just because he says so.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)Last edited Tue Aug 30, 2016, 03:29 PM - Edit history (2)
So, a few links to Jonathan Watts would be good to back up your claim he is the leader on the coup beat ....
https://twitter.com/jonathanwatts
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)only suggest that you refrain from giving evidence of that ignorance.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)Glenn Edward Greenwald (born March 6, 1967) is an American lawyer, journalist, speaker and author. He is best known for his role in a series of reports in The Guardian newspaper on the classified information made public by whistleblower Edward Snowden, a series which won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize ... wiki
I did not say I did not know who Jonathan Watts is, I asked you to provide some support for what you said. You have not done so, you just attacked me instead with the sort of bogus charges that characterize the impeachment of Dilma, groundless and invented.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)further demonstrates an ignorance I would not trumpet.
Apparently, you don't like the Guardian very much.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)The Guardian series with Greenwald as a writer won the Pulitzer, not the Guardian without anyone writing anything. You do understand writers wrote the series, right?
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)of the team that worked on the winning series.
As for Jonathan Watt, I'm still laughing at apparently how much you dislike the Guardian.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)But feel free to think what you wish to think.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)in South America? You know....the guy who last year said she was going to be impeached while GG was still whingeing on about Obama......
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/23/dilma-rousseff-brazil-president-impeach-scandal
The idea that GG, retiree to Brazil and former Wall Street attorney is leading the pack in reporting on Rousseff is laughable.
CincyDem
(6,411 posts)Just another reminder of why it is so important to turn the Senate. Turning the House would just be too much to hope for but gaining 4 seats in the Senate with Herr Trump at the top of ticket - that is within reach.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)"too much to hope for"
CincyDem
(6,411 posts)I would love nothing more than to spend my Thanksgiving dinner apologizing for having doubted that Dems can take the House.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Maybe Dilma can roll in the tanks and install her own military-backed junta... She can counter-coup the coup! Then we will have gone full circle...
Serious question: If the roles were reversed and Dilma and her people had a chance to oust an opposition president, do you really think they wouldn't have played it to the hilt?
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)Last edited Wed Aug 31, 2016, 01:28 AM - Edit history (1)
A few elitists can't make a country function, only the workers have that power.
16 August 2016
Labor unions in Brazil are considering a national general strike to amplify demands for the installed government to stop attacking worker rights.
Brazils largest labor unions took to the streets in major cities across the country Tuesday to demand more jobs and stronger workers protections as conservative legislators prepare to permanently remove the moderate President Dilma Rousseff from office and deepen punishing austerity policies.
The action disrupted the workdays at banks, factories and offices nationwide as workers articulated a comprehensive list of several demands in the face of government plans to flexibilize the countrys labor force. Those plans were introduced by a cabal of right-wing lawmakers who forced Rousseff from office on allegations that she spent public money to influence her 2014 re-election. Both Rousseff and the international community have condemned her ouster as a coup, but legislators insist on continuing with the effort, a vote on whether to permanently remove her from office is scheduled for later this month, just as the 2016 Olympic Games are concluding.
We will resist, we are going to fight to stop increased exploitation and withdrawal of rights, said CUT National President Vagner Freitas in a statement, adding that Tuesdays national action is the first warning of a possible general strike. .........
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Can't wait to see that!
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)OBenario
(604 posts)... that the staff of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs calls for a strike.
It's pathetic. This government won't last until December.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)How would you react if the Republicans ousted Obama on trumped up charges. Fortunately, they can't pull that off here, but they sure tried to do it to Bill Clinton. The difference here, Gore would have become President. In Brazil, the V-P isn't necessarily the same political party, so that constitutional flaw enables a coup by this corrupt criminal element.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)We'll see how much national support she has once the rubber meets the road...
I still don't think it's anywhere near enough to stop this from happening, but we'll see.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)But, if the corrupt criminals do impeach, the people will get the last word. And their reaction will have more to do with defending democracy that defending Dilma.
This is the most important thing happening in global politics today, and not a peep in US media.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)http://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/brazil-s-dilma-rousseff-i-haven-t-committed-any-crimes-n639386
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/latest-rousseff-backers-rally-brazil-congress-41714868
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/brazils-suspended-president-makes-impassioned-speech-to-stay-in-office/2016/08/29/7057565e-6bcb-11e6-91cb-ecb5418830e9_story.html
http://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/dilma-rousseff
http://www.latimes.com/world/brazil/
Shall I go on?
And while I agree this is a big story, I'm not so sure it's bigger than the ongoing mess in Syria...
OBenario
(604 posts)There's no media manipulation that can resist to attacks against workers' rights and cuts to social benefits and purchasing power.
Social convulsions will happen. Not because of loyalty to Dilma. Just because nobody wants to die of hunger.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)The impeachment bid against suspended Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, widely condemned as a coup, is in its final stages, threatening to officially oust the democratically elected president and install permanently "interim" President Michel Temer and his neoliberal, corruption-ridden Cabinet.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)Brazils suspended president makes impassioned speech to stay in office
BRASILIA A defiant Dilma Rousseff delivered what may be her last speech as president of Brazil on Monday, appealing to senators not to vote for her ouster in a controversial impeachment trial that was postponed until the Rio Olympics concluded.
During an emotional address, Rousseff referred to the torture she suffered as a left-wing guerrilla who was imprisoned by Brazils military dictatorship. She said the attempt to impeach her amounted to a coup that would only worsen Brazils political and economic crisis.
The accusations directed against me are unjust and uncalled for, Rousseff said. To condemn without sufficient proof is to condemn an innocent.
If 54 of a total of 81 senators vote to impeach her, as is widely expected, Rousseff will be definitively ousted .....
OBenario
(604 posts)Tamo junto.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)and the list goes on at length.....
By: Marion Deschamps 27 August 2016
As President Dilma Rousseff's destiny lies in the hands of pro-impeachment senators, Brazilian singer-songwriter Tulipa Ruiz, one of her most vocal supporters, spoke to teleSUR over the phone from her home country in between tours of Latin America and Europe. .....
Despite the obvious language barrier, the album saw the Sao Paulo-born artist attract widespread international attention and her unique brand of contagious, hypnotic dance-inspired tracks saw her rank fourth in Rolling Stones' 2016 review of best Latin American albums.
After a career as an illustrator and a journalist, Ruiz emerged on Brazil's independent music scene in 2010 with her debut album Efêmera." Her music influences range from bossa nova to rock and she references national artists like Milton Nascimento, Ná Ozzetti and Gal Costa as influences as well as the likes of Joni Mitchell and Meredith Monk internationally.
teleSUR: Do you feel like you're part of a new generation of Brazilian female singers? What's your perspective on women's issues and rights in Brazil? ......
ucrdem
(15,512 posts)meaning there aren't legions of V-for-Vendetta masked goons running around wrecking the place But it's still bad news.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)Brazil's natural resources and the Amazon rain forest are on the line, even the trajectory of global warming may be in play. The new junta has already made clear their intent to exploit the Amazon and open the country to foreign corporations. This could result in the extinction of more native nations if the rightists succeed in seizing full control.
ucrdem
(15,512 posts)Basically I'm relieved that no one is trying to pretend it's another social-media-civil-society-crowd-source miracle à la Tunisia and Egypt which as I understand it were Bush-Cheney initiatives to begin with, at least our role in them.
OBenario
(604 posts)46 years later.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)Coyotl
(15,262 posts)This morning on Democracy Now:
Aug 29, 2016
Glenn Greenwald speaks to Amy Goodman (DemocracyNow) about the impeachment of the Brazilian president, Dilma Rousseff.
Video: Dilma Rousseffs Impeachment Trial Nears an End, Endangering Brazilian Democracy
Glenn Greenwald Aug. 29 2016, 1:53 p.m.
"... so you have a band of criminals removing this woman ..."
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)Conversa Afiada Verified account ?@ConversaAfiada 6 hours ago Sao Paulo, Brazil
#pelademocracia continua a liderar trend topics
https://twitter.com/hashtag/PelaDemocracia
PT Brasil @ptbrasiI
RT LatuffCartoons: #PelaDemocracia Via jornalSul21
http://www.sul21.com.br/jornal/latuff-ve-dilma-no-senado/
cc dilmabr
Nas lutas ?@PersonalEscrito 2 hours ago
#Brazil: Dumpsters are set on fire by anti-coup protesters after brutal crackdown in Paulista Ave. #PelaDemocracia
#Brazil: Cops throw tear gas at protesters in #SãoPaulo. #PelaDemocracia VIDEO
#Brazil: A protester from the @mtst_ injured by a tear gas canister, in Paulista, #SãoPaulo. Pic @Brasil_de_Fato
Brasil Wire ?@BrasilWire 2 hours ago
Anti-Coup crowd growing in front of the Parliament in Brasilia. via @j_livres #PelaDemocracia
Nas lutas ?@PersonalEscrito 2 hours ago
#Brazil: Repression against a demo "for democracy" in Paulista Ave, #SãoPaulo just now. #PelaDemocracia
Judi Lynn
(160,656 posts)Those of us who are determined to learn the truth saw through their tactics long ago. They attack the poster, trying to provoke defensive reactions, then try to trash the thread.
It doesn't work, and it earns them total disgust, contempt, disrespect.
We are with you, hell bent upon finding out every thing we can. What you did to help the progressives here is remarkable.
A huge step forward for all of us to have access to this info. I'm saving it for future reference, too.
think
(11,641 posts)Coyotl
(15,262 posts)Leomagno ?@Leomagnoleo 1 minute ago
O que falar de uma mulher que aguenta 14 horas de interrogatório e derruba todos os seus oponentes.
#PelaDemocracia
What to speak of a woman who can handle 14 hours of interrogation and drop all your opponents.
Ronaldo Matias @RonaldoMatiasP
#AQueridaVoltou Presidenta convenceu os indecisos e foi APROVADA por senadores!... Ela vai voltar!
#AQueridaVoltou President convinced the doubters and was OK for senators! ... She'll be back!
29 August 2016
"We are 54 million Dilmas," people across the country chanted, alluding to Rousseff's 2014 vote tally and demanding interim President Michel Temer resign.
Thousands of people and many social organizations protested in Brazil's main cities on Monday, the same day suspended President Dilma Rousseff made her final pitch for staying in office to the Brazilian Senate.
In the capital Brasilia, people gathered in front of the parliament, where senators will vote Tuesday on whether or not to remove Rousseff form office. A two-thirds majority, or 54 of 81 senators, is required to seal the impeachment and install the "interim" government of Michel Temer permanently.
When the sun went down Monday night, a brutal crackdown was reported in Paulista Avenue, Sao Paulo, with police throwing tear gas at protesters, while the suspended president was defending her case to the senators in a moving speech. .......
#coup Top news story
Dr. Roy Schestowitz ?@schestowitz 9 hours ago
Glenn #Greenwald on the hypocrisy of Brazil's political crisis
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)Lost Art ?@lostart 1 hour ago Sao Paulo, Brazil
Protest against interim president Temer on Avenida Paulista ends with police violence. #foratemer #lostart
Nas lutas ?@PersonalEscrito 1 minute ago
"Temer Out" #ForaTemer
Demo against the coup in #SãoPaulo.
#PelaDemocracia #Brazil Photo via @mtst
Anonymous Brasil ?@YourAnonNewsBR 5 minutes ago
Manifestantes ateiam fogo e armam barricadas contra ofensiva da Policia Militar em São Paulo #ForaTemer
Marina. ?@pachecomarina 12 minutes ago
http://a.msn.com/r/2/AAielHQ?a=1&m=PT-BR
#ForaTemer #SemTemer
Paulisson Miura ?@paulissonmiura 17 minutes ago Cuiabá, Brazil
Arte de https://www.facebook.com/sirlanneynogueira/
#PelaDemocracia #ForaTemer #GloboGolpista
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)teleSUR English @telesurenglish
Thousands hit the streets of Brazil and police are cracking down hard. #impeachment
1:12 video in Portuguese
Cristian Chiabotto ?@CrisChiabotto 22 minutes ago
Primeiramente. #fridakahlo #ForaTemer
Dilma Rousseff ?@dilmabr 6 hours ago
Enquanto a presidenta Dilma luta #PelaDemocracia no @SenadoFederal, o povo se manifesta em apoio do lado de fora
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)The irony of this situation is noteworthy, the impeachment vote against Dilma, a victim of right-wing regime torture, is scheduled for today, the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances.
Sheyla Kouri ?@SheylaKouri 2 minutes ago
A única saída viável é, e sempre será, à esquerda.
Estou nessa, com todas as minhas células. #ForaTemer
The only viable solution is, and will always be on the left.
I'm in this with all my cells. #ForaTemer
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)A communique from Brazil's Landless Workers Movement released Monday night warns against attacks on democracy.
.... The encampment set up in Brasilia is the epicenter radiating hope of better days for the whole population. Rural workers, public service unions and various social movements populate the trench. They all have in common non-conformity with the attempt to sabotage our young democracy.
Once more, the space is filled with solidarity. Donations of construction material, camping equipment, medicines, as well as hands, arms and legs to help in the assembly camp abound. On each face, you can see that the setback of a coup will not be imposed on the people easily. Women and men make up a democratic and republican brigade, willing to fight for the well-being of the Brazilian people. .......
http://www.euronews.com/2016/08/29/do-not-accept-the-coup-brazil-s-rousseff-testifies-at-impeachment-hearing
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)Pepe Escobar is an independent geopolitical analyst. He writes for RT, Sputnik and TomDispatch, and is a frequent contributor to websites and radio and TV shows ranging from the US to East Asia. He is the former roving correspondent for Asia Times Online. Born in Brazil, he's been a foreign correspondent since 1985, and has lived in London, Paris, Milan, Los Angeles, Washington, Bangkok and Hong Kong. Even before 9/11 he specialized in covering the arc from the Middle East to Central and East Asia, with an emphasis on Big Power geopolitics and energy wars. He is the author of "Globalistan" (2007), "Red Zone Blues" (2007), "Obama does Globalistan" (2009) and "Empire of Chaos" (2014), all published by Nimble Books. His latest book is "2030", also by Nimble Books, out in December 2015.
Dilma Rousseff entered the Senate and calmly stared down her accusers. She left with her head held high after exhorting those Senators to vote with their conscience.
Most of those politicians present probably had no idea what conscience means; theyre no more than corrupt messenger boys. But the Brazilian collective unconscious Jung to the rescue will be marked.
President Dilma Rousseff, in a detailed, occasionally emotional speech, defended herself with honor and dignity from accusations she committed a crime of responsibility. She was not actually facing a political cesspool, but that Angel of History so beloved by Walter Benjamin. History will judge her kindly.
Meanwhile, it aint over till a dodgy politico sings. As I write, Rousseff is on the way to be stripped from the presidency of the worlds 8th largest economy by a bunch of scoundrel-cum-coward politicos. Her only fear, she said, was the death of democracy. Rousseffs impeachment means in practice that democratic voting in one of the worlds largest democracies will be cancelled by a parliamentary coup remote-controlled by oligarchic interests. This is not, and never was, about justice; its about dirty, nasty politics.
There is no techno-bureaucrat argument whatsoever capable of proving the President should be impeached ..............
............ Testifying in her own defence before a predominantly opposition senate, the Workers party leader said she had withstood torture in her fight for democracy and would not back down even though she is widely expected to lose a final impeachment vote likely to occur within the next two days.
A warrior to the end: Dilma Rousseff a sinner and saint in impeachment fight
Read more
I fought against dictatorship. I have the mark of torture on my body, she reminded senators of the abuse she suffered during imprisonment by the military government. At almost 70 years of age, its not going to be now, after becoming a mother and grandmother, that I will abandon the principles that have always guided me.
Her comparison with the military tribunals that condemned her to prison more than 40 years ago was in keeping with the suspended presidents consistent claim throughout the nearly 10-month impeachment debate that she is the victim of a coup. ............
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)actual merits of what she's been charged with, and how that stacks up in the eyes of the law?
Because while she has a legit gripe, saying the senators are just as much if not more corrupt than she is, or saying her opponents are ruthlessly taking advantage of a down economy and flawed impeachment rules to oust her don't quite fly as legal defenses...
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)Insinuation like this is just plain wrong. If you have a charge, make it. Don't pretend one exists. Did you listen to the proceeding yesterday?
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)I mean, not even a little? That's either the boldest or blindest statement I've read here in awhile... Would you be willing to wager on that??
My Portuguese isn't great so I haven't watched... I'll dig up a translation of the testimony when I can....
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)You say you don't know what you are talking about but will look into it and while that's the best you have to counter, you thibnk you can characterize what I said with hyperbole. Don't waste our time like this, democracies are under attack globally by extreme right wing oligarchs and you want to defend their actions with innuendo about something you don't know about?
Meshuga
(6,182 posts)I mean, not allegations but what has been proven so far?
Thanks!
Judi Lynn
(160,656 posts)Brazil Senate braces for Rousseff impeachment vote
AFP | 31 August, 2016 07:54
Supporters of Brazil's suspended President Dilma Rousseff, hold signs that reads "Out Temer" in
reference to interim President Michel Temer, during a protest in Sao Paulo, Brazil, August 30, 2016.
Image by: NACHO DOCE / REUTERS
Senators loyal to Brazil's first female president debated into the night Tuesday in a final attempt to halt the apparently unstoppable momentum toward her dismissal.
. . .
Rousseff's counsel, veteran lawyer Jose Eduardo Cardozo, retorted that the charges were trumped up to punish the president's support for a huge corruption investigation that has snared many of Brazil's elite.
"This is a farce," he said in a speech during which his voice alternated between shouts and near whispers.
"We should ask her forgiveness if she is convicted," he added. "History will treat her fairly. History will absolve Dilma Rousseff if you convict her."
More:
http://www.timeslive.co.za/world/2016/08/31/Brazil-Senate-braces-for-Rousseff-impeachment-vote
Judi Lynn
(160,656 posts)Cocaine or Sugar? Brazil Debates Senator's Bag of White Powder
A hand is seen on the lower right corner with a bag of white powder. | Photo: TV Senado
Published 30 August 2016
. . .
A video that was published Tuesday shows a Brazilian senator shaking a bag of white powder during Dilma Rousseffs impeachment defense, sparking debate on the origin of the substance.
The video was taken Monday, when suspended President Rousseff addressed the Senate in her impeachment trial. Dilmas defense was broadcast live throughout the country.
More:
http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Cocaine-or-Sugar-Brazil-Debates-Senators-Bag-of-White-Powder-20160830-0027.html
Coyotl
(15,262 posts).... If the impeachment is approved, Senate-imposed interim President Michel Temer will be installed until 2018. For Brazil's left, the interim Temer administration has made its plans heard loud and clear: roll back economic, social and political rights and empower the nation's oligarchy.
But Temer's government is clearly waiting in the wings for the Senate to permanently oust Rousseff before formally announcing cuts to key social programs and ultimately impose neoliberalism. ...........
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)By MAURICIO SAVARESE - Aug. 30, 2016
Watchdog groups say about 60 percent of the 594 legislators in both chambers of Congress are being investigated for wrongdoing or are facing corruption charges, including the three men in line to replace Rousseff if she is removed from office. ..........
FIRST IN LINE: Vice President Michel Temer. ... a former senator who had been a director of state-run oil company Transpetro made a direct link between Temer and the massive corruption probe centered on the main government oil company, Petrobras. .... Temer asked him to channel $400,000 in Petrobras kickbacks to 2012 Sao Paulo mayoral candidate, Gabriel Chalita, a member of Temer's party. ....
SECOND IN LINE: Speaker of the lower house of Congress, Rodrigo Maia .... received illegal campaign donations. .........
THIRD IN LINE: Senate President Renan Calheiros ... Supreme Federal Tribunal currently has several open investigations against Calheiros in the Petrobras probe. ... Calheiros received almost $10 million in bribes over 10 years ... Calheiros was paid $1.7 million through a Petrobras lobbyist in a case related to drill ship contracts. .......
OUSTED: Former Chamber of Deputies Speaker Eduardo Cunha. ... spearheaded the impeachment measures against Rousseff, would have been second in line but was removed as speaker by Brazil's highest court while he is investigated in several cases. .........
Nas lutas ?@PersonalEscrito Aug 30
#Brazil: Streets & highways are closed with barricades in protest the coup, in cities across the country. #ForaTemer
A large photo gallery:
As fotos dos protestos contra Temer ontem e hoje em SP
(Photos of the protests against Temer yesterday and today in San Pablo) August 30, 2016
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)Last edited Wed Aug 31, 2016, 01:13 PM - Edit history (1)
With at least 60 Senators committed to removing the suspended president, the impeachment is a "foregone conclusion,"... is being decided Wednesday as the country's Senate is voting on whether to impeach suspended President Dilma Rousseff after a trial that many international critics have described as a farce and a parliamentary coup. ....
"We are 54 million Dilmas," read signs at many of the protests, referring to the number of votes Brazils first woman president received in 2014. Police are trying to crack down on protesters ahead of Wednesday vote.
Rousseff's dismissal would consolidate a political shift to the right and the end of 13 years of leftist Workers Party rule that helped lift some 30 million Brazilians out of poverty.
..................
9:16 AM - 31 Aug 2016
PT Senator Farias now speaking in defence of #Dilma, fired up: "Scoundrels! Scoundrels! Scoundrels!" he screams about pro-impecahment bloc
#Dilma removed on a politicized technicality. New top 3 politicos in #Brazil are all accused of *actual* corruption.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)12 minutes ago
It puts an end to 13 years in power of her left-wing Workers' Party.
August 31, 2016
Sixty-one senators voted in favor of removing Rousseff from the presidency; 20 voted against her impeachment.
José Miguel Sardo ?@jmsardo 2 minutes ago Retweeted EXAME Brasil
#Brazil #Latest Michel Temer to swear-in at 21h CET after #Dilma impeachment. 3rd PMDB party non elected president.
Estadão @Estadao 10:11 AM - 31 Aug 2016
Dilma perde mandato, mas vai manter o direito de exercer funções públicas http://bit.ly/2bYBygV
(Dilma loses mandate, but will retain the right to hold public office)
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)Evo Morales Ayma @evoespueblo 10:19 AM - 30 Aug 2016
Si prospera golpe parlamentario contra gobierno democrático de @dilmabr, Bolivia convocará a su embajador. Defendamos la democracia y la paz
(If successful parliamentary coup against the democratic government of @dilmabr, Bolivia summon its ambassador. We defend democracy and peace)
cachi ?@careuszapata 4 minutes ago
Varios países retiran sus embajadores de #brasil #dilma
Pascoe Sabido ?@pascoesabido 56 seconds ago
Wow. Brazil's economic elite no longer need the military to carry out their coups. They've got the senate #Dilma
Gringo Falsi ?@BrasEmDen 2 minutes ago
.@HillaryClinton Brazil's democracy was legally stolen today by greedy old men and special interests. Will this happen to you? #Dilma
Andre Vltchek ?@AndreVltchek 5 minutes ago
#Dilma has been forced out by coup performed by pro-Western elites. IF ANYBODY STILL BELIEVES IN "WESTERN-STYLE DEMOCRACY", WAKE UP!!!
Claudia Salerno ?@cscaldera 6 minutes ago
60 senadores de la derecha barrieron la voluntad de casi 60 Millones de Brasileños. Sin probarle ningún delito, ES GOLPE #Brasil #Dilma
(60 rightist Senators swept the will of nearly 60 million Brazilians. No crime proven, it's a coup.)
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)Democracy Now! @democracynow 10:19 AM - 31 Aug 2016
Noam Chomsky: Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff "Impeached by a Gang of Thieves"
http://ow.ly/ApGQ303LCbP
As protests continue in Brazil over the Legislatures vote to suspend President Dilma Rousseff and put her on trial, Noam Chomsky notes that "we have the one leading politician who hasnt stolen to enrich herself, whos being impeached by a gang of thieves, who have done so. That does count as a kind of soft coup." Rousseffs replacement, Brazils former vice president, Michel Temer, is a member of the opposition PMDB party who is implicated in Brazils massive corruption scandal involving state-owned oil company Petrobras, and has now appointed an all-white male Cabinet charged with implementing corporate-friendly policies.
COMPLETO Dilma Rousseff primeiro pronunciamento após a aprovação do impeachment 31/08/2016
President Dilma Rousseff Impeached, New Government to Pursue Right-Wing Agenda
Aug 31, 2016
This is a moment of triumph for those who used the government to shield themselves from very serious corruption charges, revealing the failure of Brazil's so-called democratic institutions, says Harvard University professor Sidney Chalhoub
snooper2
(30,151 posts)Massive corruption in both, nepotism, favoritism, bribes and complete fucking incompetence.
MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)No branch of government is so powerful it cannot be checked by another. The Brazilian Legislative Branched just exercised authority to check the Brazilian Executive Branch.
Same thing can happen in our system of government.
This is not a bug in the system. It is a DESIGN FEATURE!
Meshuga
(6,182 posts)...Who are actually implicated in the whole Petrobras scandal are the ones who worked to oust Rousseff. While the one official not implicated in these scandals is the one who was impeached.
Claiming that the politics of corrupt thugs using Rousseff's unpopularity as an opportunity to take over the presidency (since they keep failing to win at the ballot box) is "democratic government in action" seems way misguided and uninformed to me.
MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)This is how democratic governments function. If the people of Brazil don't like it, they can oust them all in their next election.
All political actions have consequences in a democratic republic. Take, for example, the attempt to oust Bill Clinton from the presidency. The Republicans suffered political consequences in the very next election.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)Last edited Wed Aug 31, 2016, 11:33 PM - Edit history (1)
Juan Antonio Tirado @jatirado
#Venezuela retira embajador y congela relaciones con #Brasil tras destitución de Rousseff
http://hrld.us/2c59rLd
(#Venezuela Withdraws ambassador and freezes relations with #Brasil after removal of Rousseff)
800 Noticias ?@800Noticias 7 minutes ago
#Venezuela retira a su embajador en #Brasil http://goo.gl/7gLs1I
Nodal ?@InfoNodal 28 minutes ago
#Brasil Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores de Venezuela condena la destitución de @dilmabr
Noticias de Brasil ?@NoticiadeBrasil 11 minutes ago
Gobierno evaluará situación con Brasil luego de destitución de ... -
El Diario de Hoy http://goo.gl/fb/0NoVD4 #Brasil
(El Salvador Government to assess situation with Brazil after dismissal.)
Diario K ?@DiarioKNoticias 26 minutes ago
Apoyo de @CFKArgentina a @dilmabr | #ForzaDilma #Brasil #Dilma #CFK #PatriaGrande | http://diariok.com
On edit:
Prensa Presidencial ?@PresidencialVen 1 hour ago
#VIDEO @NicolasMaduro "En #Brasil se ha dado un golpe de Estado"
Albert Bonau ?@BonauA 2 hours ago
Basta de Golpes de Estados en #Latinoamérica
Ahora fuerza y lucha #Brasil
Sputnik Mundo Verified account ?@SputnikMundo 2 hours ago
Manifestantes salen a las calles de #Brasil para protestar contra #Temer #ForaTemer
http://sptnkne.ws/ccgb
Ecuador, Bolivia y Venezuela congelan relaciones políticas y diplomáticas con Brasil tras el golpe parlamentario contra la mandataria Rousseff. .....
El Gobierno de Venezuela retira "definitivamente a su Embajador de la República Federativa de Brasil" y congela las relaciones políticas y diplomáticas con el Gobierno "surgido de este golpe parlamentario", indica un comunicado de la Cancillería de esta nación.
"Las oligarquías políticas y empresariales que, en alianza con factores imperiales consumaron el Golpe de Estado contra la presidenta Dilma Rousseff", acusó el Gobierno de Nicolás Maduro de Venezuela.
Por su parte, Rafael Correa, presidente de Ecuador, decidió retirar este miércoles a su máximo representante diplomático en Brasil ....
... Evo Morales anunció en su cuenta de Twitter que están convocando al embajador de Bolivia para que "tome las medidas necesarias sobre este asunto".
Cuba también se manifestó en contra del golpe ............
CaraotaDigital ?@CaraotaDigital 2 hours ago
Correa retira encargado en la embajada de #Brasil por destitución de Rousseff
http://bit.ly/2c5fZt6
A few white men:
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan
The Olympic torch in Rio de Janeiro has been extinguished, and the global spotlight has left Brazil. In the shadow of the games, an extraordinary event has taken place, largely ignored in the U.S. media: a coup detat against Brazils democratically elected president, Dilma Rousseff. Brazil is the fifth-most populous country in the world, with one of its largest economies. Like many Latin American nations, it suffered under a military dictatorship for decades, emerging as a young democracy only 30 years ago. This weeks coup was not carried out by the military, but by the Brazilian Senate. The effect is essentially the same: the president has been impeached, and an unpopular political opponent, Michel Temer, who represents that countrys wealthy elites, has assumed the presidency.
In 1964, the Brazilian military staged a coup against another democratically elected president. After the coup, Dilma Rousseff, as a young woman, joined an armed guerrilla group to fight against the military dictatorship. She was arrested in 1970, and repeatedly tortured during her more than two years of imprisonment. After her release, she remained politically active, but outside the armed resistance .......
.....the people of Brazil deserve a swift repudiation of this coup, by all governments, but most importantly by President Barack Obama and those presidential candidates who aspire to replace him.
New Evidence Clears Brazil's Lula in Petrobras Scandal
Cuba's government defended Brazil's left and its social gains, its fight to end poverty and push for Latin American integration.
The Cuban government "strongly rejects the parliamentary and judicial coup détat perpetrated against President Dilma Rousseff," according to a statement published Wednesday by Cuba's Ministry of Foreign Relations.
"What happened in Brazil is another expression of the offensive of imperialist forces and the oligarchy against the revolutionary and progressive governments of Latin America and the Caribbean which threatens the peace and stability of nations," the statement said.
Cuba's government said the Senate's vote against Rousseff "is an act of defiance against the sovereign will of the people who voted for her." .......
In Depth The Coup That Ousted Brazilian Democracy