Brazil

The Brazilian Coup’s Image Problem

May 28, 2016 Gianpaolo Baiocchi, www.bostonreview.net Educate! Brazil, coup, Democracy, Elections, Latin America

By Gianpaolo Baiocchi for Boston Review - Two weeks ago, after recording what was perhaps her last official address and signing a net-neutrality addendum to Brazil’s landmark 2014 Internet civil rights legislation (the Marco Civil da Internet), Dilma Rousseff was temporarily removed from the office of president of Brazil. For a period of up to six months, the Senate will deliberate on whether to remove her permanently from office or reinstate her to finish her term, depending on if she is found guilty of a “crime of responsibility” for fiscal inconsistencies in the national budget.

Brazil Minister Ousted: Secret Tape Reveals Plot To Topple President Rousseff

May 26, 2016 Jonathan Watts, www.theguardian.com Resist! Brazil, coup, Leak

By Jonathan Watts for The Guardian - The credibility of Brazil’s interim government was rocked on Monday when a senior minister was forced to step aside amid further revelations about the machiavellian plot to impeach president Dilma Rousseff. Just 10 days after taking office, the planning minister, Romero Jucá, announced that he would “go on leave” following the release of a secretly taped telephone conversation in which he said Rousseff needed to be removed to quash a vast corruption investigation that implicated him and other members of the country’s political elite.

Brazil Social Movement Plans To Escalate Land Occupations After Coup

May 26, 2016 Staff, www.telesurtv.net Resist! Brazil, Land Rights, Occupation, Politics, Social Movements, South America

By Staff of Tele Sur - Latin America's largest social movement has promised a new wave of farm occupations in Brazil following President Dilma Rousseff's suspension to stand trial in the Senate, an official with the Landless Workers Movement (MST) said. The movement, a long-time ally of Rousseff's Workers Party which says it has two million members across Brazil, will target "idle" farm land owned by members of the interim government and its backers, MST spokeswoman Marina do Santos said Tuesday.

Leaked Telephone Shows Removal Of Dilma Was A Coup

May 24, 2016 Glenn Greenwald, Andrew Fishman and David Miranda, www.theintercept.com Educate! Brazil, coup, Leak

By Glenn Greenwald, Andrew Fishman and David Miranda for The Intercept - BRAZIL TODAY AWOKE to stunning news of secret, genuinely shocking conversations involving a key minister in Brazil’s newly installed government, which shine a bright light on the actual motives and participants driving the impeachment of the country’s democratically elected president, Dilma Rousseff. The transcripts were published by the country’s largest newspaper, Folha de São Paulo, and reveal secret conversations that took place in March, just weeks before the impeachment vote in the lower house was held.

WikiLeaks Reveal Brazil’s New Coup President Is ‘US Informant’

May 15, 2016 Telesur, www.telesurtv.net Educate! Brazil, Wikileaks

By Telesur. Whistleblower website WikiLeaks described the Senate-imposed President of Brazil Michel Temer as a “U.S. Embassy informant” in a tweet and provided two links where Temer's candid thoughts on Brazilian politics serve as the basis for a report by the U.S. embassy in Brazil. Whistleblower website WikiLeaks described the Senate-imposed President of Brazil Michel Temer as a “U.S. Embassy informant” in a tweet and provided two links where Temer's candid thoughts on Brazilian politics serve as the basis for a report by the U.S. embassy in Brazil. The cable from Jan. 11, 2006, states that Temer met with embassy officials on Jan. 9, 2006 to give his assessment of Brazil's political landscape ahead of the 2006 general election that saw Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva reelected to the presidency. Temer became interim president after the Brazilian Senate voted to proceed with an impeachment trial against President Dilma Rousseff, forcing her to step down for a period of 180 days.

New Coup Finance Minister Promises Neo-Liberal Reforms

May 13, 2016 Staff, www.telesurtv.net Resist! Brazil, coup, Elections

By Staff of Tele Sur - Brazil’s new Finance Minister Henrique Meirelles held a press conference today, laying out the outline of a neo-liberal approach to social security and labor reform. The "most important" issues facing Brazil's economy are the level of unemployment and retirement funds, both of which related to sovereign debt. Meirelles said that the current state of the economy, which has suffered due to low oil prices, is causing international financiers to lose confidence in the Brazil government.

Brazil’s Democracy To Suffer: Corrupt Neoliberal Is Installed

May 13, 2016 Glenn Greenwald, www.theintercept.com Educate! Brazil, Corruption, Elections

By Glenn Greenwald for The Intercept - In 2002, Brazil’s left-of-center Workers Party (PT) ascended to the presidency when Lula da Silva won in a landslide over the candidate of the center-right party PSDB (throughout 2002, “markets” were indignant at the mere prospect of PT’s victory). The PT remained in power when Lula, in 2006, was re-elected in another landslide against a different PSDB candidate. PT’s enemies thought they had their chance to get rid of PT in 2010, when Lula was barred by term limits from running again, but their hopes were crushed when Lula’s handpicked successor, the previously unknown Dilma Rousseff,won by 12 points...

Protests Erupt Over Coup Impeachment In Brazil

May 11, 2016 Staff, www.telesurtv.net Resist! Brazil, Impeachment, Protests

By Staff of Tele Sur - Attorney General Eduardo Cardozo, the government's top lawyer, asked the Supreme Court to annul impeachment proceedings, his office said. Speaker Eduardo Maranhao on Monday had annulled a vote by the lower house due to "procedural flaws" in the April 17 vote that left the decision in the Senate’s hands. In a statement to the Senate, Maranhao did not cite any reason for backtracking the lower house's decision.

Indigenous Movement Stops Construction Of Brazilian Mega-Dam

April 29, 2016 Juliana Britto Schwartz, www.feministing.com Resist! Brazil, Dams, Indigenous Peoples, Protests

By Juliana Britto Schwartz for Feministing - In a historic victory, one of Brazil’s largest indigenous groups has managed to suspend construction of a mega-dam that threatened to submerge their home. The Brazilian indigenous agency FUNAI finally demarcated the territory of the Munduruku people, providing the legal basis to suspend construction of the São Luiz de Tapajós dam. These 700 square miles of land – known as Sawre Muybu – are now legally recognized as the traditional territory of the Munduruku and protected under the Brazilian constitution...

Real Story In Brazil Shown By Next President And Finance Chief

April 23, 2016 Glenn Greenwald, www.theintercept.com Educate! Brazil, Politics

By Glenn Greenwald for The Intercept - IT’S NOT EASY for outsiders to sort through all the competing claims about Brazil’s political crisis and the ongoing effort to oust its president, Dilma Rousseff, who won re-election a mere 18 months ago with 54 million votes. But the most important means for understanding the truly anti-democratic nature of what’s taking place is to look at the person whom Brazilian oligarchs and their media organs are trying to install as president: the corruption-tainted, deeply unpopular, oligarch-serving Vice President Michel Temer (above).

Brazil: Impeachment Of Dilma Opens Up New Period Of Class Struggle

April 21, 2016 Fred Weston, www.marxist.com Resist! Brazil, Class Struggle, Impeachment

By Fred Weston for In Defense of Marxism - Such were the passions on both sides that the authorities had to build a temporary two metre-high, one kilometer-long metal fence to keep apart the thousands of pro- and anti-impeachment demonstrators outside the Congress building in Brasilia. Parliament voted by a big majority, 367 for impeachment and 137 against, more than the two-thirds required to start proceedings against Dilma. She is accused of manipulating government accounts.

Crisis In Brazil

April 21, 2016 Glenn Greenwald et al, www.socialistproject.ca Educate! Brazil, Latin America, Politics

By Glenn Greenwald, Euan Gibb, Andrew Fishman, David Miranda, Bea Whitaker and João Machado for The Bullet - Brazil's lower House of Congress on Sunday voted to impeach the country's president, Dilma Rousseff, sending the removal process to the Senate. In an act of unintended though rich symbolism, the House member who pushed impeachment over the 342-vote threshold was Dep. Bruno Araújo, himself implicated by a document indicating he may have received illegal funds from the construction giant at the heart of the nation's corruption scandal.

Repression Against Landless Peasants Movement In Brazil

April 21, 2016 Staff, www.therealnews.com Educate! Brazil, Land Rights, Repression

By Staff of The Real News Network - Joaquin Piñero of the MST talks about the latest round of repression against the movement and how it is connected to the current political crisis in Brazil.

The US Returns To Latin America

April 17, 2016 Vijay Prashad, www.counterpunch.org Educate! Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, China, Ecuador, El Salvador, Honduras, Imperialism, Latin America, Nicaragua, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela

By Vijay Prashad for the Hindu and Counterpunch. The financial crisis of 2007-08 dented China’s economy and saw the slow deterioration of commodity prices. It took a few years for the economic impact to strike Latin America with ferocity. A sharp tumble in oil prices in the summer of 2008 put the brakes on many of the social programmes that had become essential to the Bolivarian dynamic. It signalled the weakness in the experiment against Western domination. President Barack Obama’s administration focussed intently on Latin America. Opportunity struck with the 2009 coup in Honduras against the Left-wing government of Manuel Zelaya. Mr. Obama recognised the new military-backed government. It opened the door to a more aggressive stance vis-à-vis Latin American states. The presidency of Peru’s Ollanta Humala (2011) and the second presidency of Chile’s Michelle Bachelet (2014) — both ostensibly of the Left — hastily drew in cabinet members vetted by the bankers and made their peace with the hegemony of the U.S. Chávez’s death in 2012 meant that the Bolivarians lost their most charismatic champion. The impact of the Honduran coup and Chávez’s death had made itself felt along the spine of Latin America. The U.S., it was being said, is back.

The Forces Behind The Attempted Coup In Brasil

April 6, 2016 Mark Weisbrot, www.counterpunch.org Educate! Brazil, coup

By Mark Weisbrot for Counter Punch - If you are following the news of political turmoil in Brazil, it may be difficult to get a grasp of what is really going on. This often happens when there is an attempted coup in the Western Hemisphere, and especially when the U.S. government has an interest in the outcome. Usually the information about that interest, and often Washington’s role, is the first casualty of the conflict. (Twenty-first century examples include Paraguay in 2012, Haiti in 2011 and 2004, Honduras in 2009,Ecuador in 2010 and Venezuela in 2002.)

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