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Related: About this forumMeet the guys marching against "corruption" in the Brazilian protests
Let me present to you some of the bastions of morality that went to the streets last Sunday to protest against "corruption" and ask for military intervention or impeachment of Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff:
Agripino Maia
Agripino Maia is a senator, elected by the state of Rio Grande do Norte. He is affiliated to DEM (short for "Democrats", a right-wing party which replaced former ARENA, the official party of the military dictatorship). Agripino was one of the civilians that coolaborated with the military regime - so much that he was even appointed by the military to be mayor of the city of Natal.
Agripino Maia is currently being investigated for extortion and receiving one million reais in bribes to approve a project that would benefit a businessman from his state. Here he is, together with his wife, protesting against "corruption".
Luiz Abi
Luiz Abi is a businessman from the state of Paraná. He is also a cousin of the governor of Paraná, Beto Richa, from the PSDB - the main party of opposition to Dilma Rousseff. Although Abi doesn't have any public job, he's considered one of the most influent "éminence grise" in the government of his cousin.
Luiz Abi went to the streets last Sunday to protest against the corruption of Dilma Rousseff. 24 hours later, he was arrested for procurement fraud. He's also under investigation for a embezzlement of 500 million reais of the public treasury and connections to a network of pedophiles.
Ana Setúbal
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Ana Setúbal is one of the richest women of Brazil. She's one of the owners of Itaú, the largest private bank of Latin America. She went to the streets last Sunday holding a sign asking for the overthrow of Dilma because of "corruption". Ana's bank is accused of evading almost 20 BILLION reais in taxes.
Jair Bolsonaro
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Jair Bolsonaro is a congressman from Rio de Janeiro. He is affiliated to right-wing party PP. Of the 57 politicians being investigated for the Petrobrás graft scandal, 33 belong to PP.
Bolsonaro is one of the most disgusting politicians in Brazil. He's famous for sentences such as "I wouldnt even rape you because you dont deserve it" - that he said to the Minister of Human Rights, or "I wouldn't be able of loving a gay son. I'd rather see him dead". He also openly defends that women should receive less than men.
You can read a bit more about him here
https://andrewdownie.wordpress.com/2014/12/09/jair-bolsonaro-and-the-rape-of-maria-do-rosario/
Carlos Alberto Augusto
Carlos Alberto Augusto is a former police chief. He worked for DOPS, the division of the government responsible for arresting and torturing people such as Dilma Rousseff during the military dictatorship.
Carlos Alberto is a murderer. He was responsible for the illegal detention, torture and murder of several victims, such as Carlos Marighella (1969), Eduardo Collen Leite (1970), Antônio Pinheiro Salles e Devanir José de Carvalho (1971), Soledad Barrett Viedma, Pauline Reichstul, Jarbas Pereira Marques, José Manoel da Silva, Eudaldo Gomes, Evaldo Luiz Ferreira de Souza e Edgard de Aquino Duarte (1973).
Just some examples of the people that were marching against "corruption".
Nice guys, huh?
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)They are calling for a military coup against a democratically elected leader.
OBenario
(604 posts)The 170th article of the Brazil's Federal Constitution states that attempting against the political order is a "crime against national security" - the most serious type of crime under Brazilian laws.
Rousseff's government is being too lenient with these thugs. She probably wants to avoid giving margin for the press calling her "authoritarian". But I'd support arresting them all.
Judi Lynn
(160,450 posts)these socially perverted, greedy, power-mad creeps in the damage, the great harm done to the human race.
What a collection of zeros. They have money, but they are worthless as human beings. Look at their evil faces. Hideous people: smug, self-indulgent, pompous asses. Out of touch with the human race.
Each one has a unique, repulsive background. It would be impossible to guess which one is more twisted than the others.
Isn't it tremendous Carlos Alberto Augusto could make the event? A TORTURER for the Brazilian military dictatorship. Oh, the stories he must have to tell his grandchildren's children at bedtime. "Come tell us a story, grandpa Carlos, the torturer."
I wonder how many times the city had to wash the streets after these dirtbags left the area after the demonstration.
OBenario
(604 posts)And to think that a monster such as this Carlos Alberto has never paid for his crimes.
Fascists such as him remain unpunished. That's one of the reasons why they feel entitled to once again attempt against democracy.