Brazil

Brazil: Repression Of Pro-Democracy Demonstrators

September 6, 2016 Deirdre Fulton, www.commondreams.org Resist! Brazil, Corruption, Democracy, Impeachment

By Deirdre Fulton for Commondreams. Protests took place in multiple Brazilian cities on Sunday, in support of ousted president Dilma Rousseff and against the now-officially installed government of her successor, Michel Temer. Agence France-Presse reported from São Paulo: Demonstration organizers—who have rejected Temer's ascendancy as a "coup"—said some 100,000 protestors filled the major artery Paulista Avenue, many holding banners that read "Out with Temer!" and "Direct elections now!" "We're here to show that the people still have power and that despite the coup, we are here in the street to bring down the government and call for a new election," protester Gustavo Amigo told BBC. Though he is prohibited from running in the next election because he was found guilty of violating campaign finance rules, former vice president Temer is set to serve the rest of what would have been Rousseff's second term, ending in 2019.

Brazil’s Dilma Rousseff Impeached By Senate In Crushing Defeat

September 1, 2016 Jonathan Watts, www.theguardian.com Educate! Brazil, Impeachment

By Jonathan Watts for The Guardian - Brazil’s first female president Dilma Rousseff has been thrown out of office by the country’s corruption-tainted senate after a gruelling impeachment trial that ends 13 years of Workers’ party rule. Following a crushing 61 to 20 defeat in the upper house, she will be replaced for the remaining two years and four months of her term by Michel Temer, a centre-right patrician who was among the leaders of the campaign against his former running mate.

How The Pro-Coup US Is Undermining Brazil’s Democracy

August 30, 2016 Staff, www.telesurtv.net Educate! Brazil, coup, US Foreign Policy

By Staff of Tele Sur - The U.S. has been actively supportive of the interim government, with many of its Cabinet members already close to the U.S., according to WikiLeaks documents. The United States has been essential in legitimizing Brazil’s impeachment process—widely described by others as a soft coup—and has played a hand in propping up the interim government. Many members of interim President Michel Temer's government have enjoyed close relations with the U.S., which is “supportive of the Brazilian interim government beyond being silent,"

Brazil President Dilma Rousseff Comes Out Fighting In Impeachment Trial

August 30, 2016 Jonathan Watts and Donna Bowater, www.theguardian.com Resist! Brazil, Impeachment

By Jonathan Watts and Donna Bowater for The Guardian - Brazil’s first female president, Dilma Rousseff, put up a fight in keeping with her Marxist guerrilla background on Monday with a powerful denunciation of the politicians who are poised to eject her from power within days. 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.

Brazil Coup And Political Crisis: How Did We Get Here?

August 29, 2016 Staff, www.telesurtv.net Educate! Brazil, coup, Crisis

By Staff of Tele Sur - Accused of mishandling the nation's fiscal budget, the Senate began the process against President Dilma Rousseff in December 2015. But Brazil's political crisis dates back to 2014 when Rousseff was re-elected as president for the second time in October 2014 amid a recession, with high inflation and unemployment rising in the country. At the same time, the biggest corruption scandal in Brazilian history, "Operation Car Wash," shook the Brazilian political elite including members of both parties in the ruling coalition

Venezuela’s Maduro: US Imperialsim To Blame For Latin American Unrest

August 28, 2016 Staff, www.telesurtv.net Resist! Bolivia, Brazil, Imperialism, Nicholas Maduro, United States, Venezuela

By Staff for Telesur. President Maduro said the recent events in Bolivia and Brazil are part of a new plan to destabilize progressive governments in the region. Following the murder of the Bolivian vice minister by miners and as the impeachment process against President Dilma Rousseff reaches its final stage, Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro warned Saturday of "imperialist" attacks on the region's left and compared the situation to a new Plan Condor. "It's an imperialist attack against all," said Maduro. "From Venezuela we will fight the coup of the oligarchy." Plan Condor was a U.S.-backed military and intelligence operation in the 1970s that saw Washington tacitly support state-sponsored terror to eliminate subversive, left-wing sectors of society and control the perceived threat of communism.

An Inside Look At How Rio Fell So Far, So Fast

July 30, 2016 Lindsay Gibbs, www.thinkprogress.org Educate! Brazil

By Lindsay Gibbs for Think Progress - With the Summer Olympics a mere week away, people across the world are turning their attention to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where over 10,000 athletes will compete in 28 sports after the torch is lit on August 5. But there’s a lot more going on in Rio than just a mega-sporting event. Brazil’s President, Dilma Rousseff, was impeached in May and has her presidential powers suspended until her Senate trial is complete. Acting Governor Francisco Dornelles declared a “state of emergency” so that they could open up emergency funds and pay the policemen who were greeting tourists with “Welcome to Hell” signs at the airport.

Brazil: 25 Buildings Occupied In Mass Indigenous Mobilization

July 20, 2016 Staff, www.earthfirstjournal.org Resist! Brazil, Indigenous Peoples, Occupation

By Staff of Articulação dos Povos Indígenas do Brasil - “CPI [Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry] wants to take our land and our territories, not just to criminalize FUNAI [National Indigenous Foundation];,and that has greatly increased violence against us–indigenous communities–and we cannot let CPI be greater than our force and our rights. We are going to fight against CPI; rights are not to be negotiated; rights must be respected,” said Sonia Guajajara, indigenous leader, in a collective interview with the Chamber of Deputies, after 25 FUNAI buildings were simultaneously occupied throughout Brazil.

Impeachment Effort May Fail In Brazilian Senate

July 15, 2016 Mark Weisbrot, www.cepr.net Educate! Brazil, Impeachment

By Mark Weisbrot for CEPR - Some press reports on the crisis in Brazil seem to imply that the removal of President Dilma Rousseff, re-elected in 2014 for a four-year term, is a done deal. Of course the interim government is acting as though they are the product of some huge electoral victory, even though the elected president is merely suspended pending her upcoming impeachment trial in the Senate. Beginning with a cabinet of all rich, white males, in a country where more than half identify as Afro-Brazilian or mixed race descent...

Major New Brazil Events Expose Fraud Of Dilma’s Impeachment

July 4, 2016 Glenn Greenwald, www.theintercept.com Educate! Brazil, Corruption, Impeachment

By Glenn Greenwald for The Intercept - FROM THE START of the campaign to impeach Brazil’s democratically elected President Dilma Rousseff, the primary justification was that she used a budget trickknown as pedaladas (“peddling”: illegal delay of re-payments to state banks) to mask public debt. But this week, as the Senate conducts her impeachment trial, that accusation was obliterated: The Senate’s own expert report concluded there was “no indication of direct or indirect action by Dilma” in any such budgetary maneuvers.

Olympics: Torch Reaches Land Of Tribe Facing ‘Genocide’

June 25, 2016 Staff, www.survivalinternational.org Resist! Brazil, Food and Agriculture, Indigenous Rights, Olympics

By Survival International. The Olympic torch is set to arrive on June 25 in a state where the Guarani tribe is widely feared to be facing annihilation due to systematic land theft, malnutrition, suicide and violence. The torch’s arrival in Mato Grosso do Sul in the southwest of Brazil comes as part of a nationwide tour before the start of the Rio de Janeiro Olympics in August. It is set to be carried by Rocleiton Ribeiro Flores, an indigenous man from the Terena people, in the city of Dourados which is close to Guarani territory. Last week, one Guarani man was killed and several others – including a twelve year old boy – were seriously injured in an attack by ranchers’ gunmen on Tey’i Jusu community.

As Brasilia’s Corruption Is Exposed, Lawmakers Try To Criminilize Dissent

June 11, 2016 Andrew Fishman, www.theintercept.com Resist! Brazil, Criminalization, Dissent

By Andrew Fishman for The Intercept - LEAKED SECRET AUDIO recordings of Brazil’s most powerful figures have sparked a series of explosive scandals in the nation’s ongoing political crisis. Now, Brazilian lawmakers are trying to outlaw publication of such recordings. A bill, which has been idling since last year in the Câmara dos Deputados, Brazil’s lower house of Congress, has picked up new steam this month.

Difference Between How U.S. Treats Brazil And Venezuela In One Video

June 7, 2016 Zaid Jilani, www.theintercept.com Educate! Brazil, Democracy, United States, Venezuela

By Zaid Jilani for The Intercept - A STATE DEPARTMENT SPOKESPERSON repeatedly refused to comment on the momentous political crisis in Brazil during his daily press briefing on Friday — in almost ludicrous contrast to his long and loquacious criticisms of neighboring Venezuela. When questioned on the stark contrast, increasingly exasperated department spokesperson Mark Toner replied, “I just – again, I don’t have anything to comment on the ongoing political dimensions of the crisis there. I don’t.”

Credibility Of Brazil’s Interim President Collapses

June 5, 2016 Glenn Greenwald, www.theintercept.com Educate! Brazil, Corruption, coup, Neoliberalism

By Glenn Greenwald for The Intercept. Brazil - It has been obvious from the start that a core objective of the impeachment of Brazil’s elected president, Dilma Rousseff, was to empower the actual thieves in Brasilia and enable them to impede, obstruct, and ultimately kill the ongoing Car Wash investigation (as well as to impose a neoliberal agenda of privatization and radical austerity). A mere 20 days into the seizure of power by the corruption-implicated “interim” President Michel Temer, overwhelming evidence has emerged proving that to be true: Already, two of the interim ministers in Temer’s all-white-male cabinet, including his anti-corruption minister, have been forced to resign after the emergence of secret recordings showing them plotting to obstruct that investigation (an investigation in which they, along with one-third of his cabinet, are personally implicated).

Brazil’s Anti-Corruption Minister Quits Over Leaked Recordings

May 31, 2016 Brad Brooks and Guillermo Parra-Bernal, www.reuters.com Resist! Brazil, Corruption, coup

By Brad Brooks and Guillermo Parra-Bernal for Reuters - BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil’s Transparency Minister Fabiano Silveira resigned on Monday after leaked recordings suggested he tried to derail a sprawling corruption probe, the latest cabinet casualty impacting interim President Michel Temer’s administration. Silveira, the man Temer tasked with fighting corruption since he took office on May 12, announced his plans to step down in a letter, according to the presidential palace’s media office. No replacement for Silveira has yet been named.

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