coup

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.)

Will Washington Greenlight Another Coup In Haiti?

December 18, 2015 Natalie Miller, www.fpif.org Educate! coup, Haiti, United States

By Natalie Miller for Foreign Policy In Focus - In October, Haitians went to the polls in a critical election for nearly 5,000 political positions, including the presidency. The preliminary results named Jovenèl Moïse, a member of outgoing President Michel Martelly’s party, as the frontrunner — though by a small enough margin that a runoff vote is planned for December 27th. Unfortunately, evidence of overwhelming fraud discredits these results. If the putsch is successful, Haiti could have yet another U.S.-backed president with a weak democratic mandate.

US Total Failure In Ukraine, Will The Nation Wake Up?

September 6, 2015 Patrick L. Smith, www.salon.com Educate! coup, Media, Propaganda, Ukraine, Wars and Militarism

By Patrick L. Smith for Salon - It is not a matter only of countering entrenched interests—the Pentagon, the defense industries, the intelligence and national security apparatus. I conclude that the American consciousness must also sustain a certain kind of violence before we will imagine our place in the world anew. This seems to me the colonel’s thought: We failed in Ukraine “pretty much completely,” and we can learn from this to think differently. I see two major misapprehensions immediately at issue. One is the neoliberal model, arising as it does out of the Chicago School’s free-market ideology, econometrics, rational choice theory, and the drastic tilt toward mathematics and computer modeling in postwar social sciences. It strips all history, culture, tradition and human preference out of our thinking such that we can pile into Ukraine and expect to win the day. Impossible. This is the irrationality of hyper-rationality. It is a proven loser. Let the losses pile up.

The Ugly Aftermath Of The US Supported Coup In Honduras

August 24, 2015 Jonathan Marshall, www.consortiumnews.com Educate! coup, Honduras, Imperialism

By Jonathan Marshall in Consortium News - Every Friday evening for the past three months, thousands of protesters have marched through the streets of Tegucigalpa and smaller cities, carrying torches and signs reading “The corrupt have ripped apart my country” and “Enough is enough.” The protesters, who call themselves the oposición indignada (the outraged opposition), demand that President Juan Orlando Hernández be held accountable for fraud and graft, which allegedly bled the national health service of more than $200 million to enrich senior officials and finance the 2013 election. “This is a really historic time in Central America,” said an analyst for the International Crisis Group. “The question is whether this will really turn into a critical juncture in which society, civil organizations, the private sector and political parties can . . . come together in making the best out of this opportunity [to begin] cleaning up our state institutions.”

Honduras’ Garifuna Communities Resist Eviction & Theft Of Land

August 20, 2015 Jeff Abbott, www.wagingnonviolence.org Educate! Corporatism, coup, Finance and the Economy, Honduras

By Jeff Abbott in Waging Non-Violence - Along the Atlantic coast of Honduras, Afro-Caribbean Garifuna communities are being forced from their land, as proposals for the creation of mega-tourism projects and corporate-run cities, commonly referred to as “model cities,” gain momentum internationally. Congress is set to vote on one such plan this summer. Originally proposed by Vice President Joseph Biden in January, the plan would provide the governments of Central America $1 billion — on top of previously existing aid agreements — to bring further investment into the region.

Resistance In Honduras Alive And Jumping

June 23, 2015 David Swanson, www.davidswanson.org Resist! coup, Honduras

By David Swanson for his blog. Thousands and thousands of people in this little nation have taken back their land, occupied it, created communities, and built a future, with or without the coup. President Manuel Zelaya had said he would help. Oligarchs had seized land, or bought land and then devalued the currency. Miguel Facussé took over palm oil plantations, evicted people from their land, got richer than rich, and allowed cocaine flights from Colombia to land on his plantations with U.S. knowledge. The U.S. for years had been funding, training, and arming soldiers for the oligarchs of Honduras. The leaders of the 2009 coup that overthrew Zelaya had all trained at the School of the Americas in the United States. The U.S. assisted in the coup and in recognition of the coup government. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama were part of and are part of this ongoing crime, and U.S. military supply shipments to Honduras are at record levels now as the military has merged with the police and turned its weaponry against the people.

Venezuela’s Continuous Coup

May 6, 2015 Alfredo Lopez, www.thiscantbehappening.net Educate! coup, History, Revolution, Venezuela

There have been several instances of arrests in Venezuela this year charging people with planning coups. The most spectacular, until last week's, was the arrest of several military leaders who were found with maps and other materials that suggest a plan to bomb several major installations and locations in the country, including the Presidential Palace. The captured materials also seemed to imply that some "transitional government" would be installed after this spasm of violence and a hoped-for eruption of confusion and chaos. Around the time of their arrests, politician Leopoldo Lopez (who is now in jail accused of fomenting riots) stated clearly that the strategy of the "La Salida" (The Exit) movement he founded is to "unseat the President through protests".

The Twilight Zone Of The US State Department

February 24, 2015 Bill Blum, www.williamblum.org Educate! coup, Covert action, Ukraine, Wars and Militarism

Q & A between the Associated Press's Matthew Lee and the State Department's Jen Psaki: Lee: President Maduro [of Venezuela] last night went on the air and said that they had arrested multiple people who were allegedly behind a coup that was backed by the United States. What is your response? Psaki: These latest accusations, like all previous such accusations, are ludicrous. As a matter of longstanding policy, the United States does not support political transitions by non-constitutional means. Political transitions must be democratic, constitutional, peaceful, and legal. We have seen many times that the Venezuelan Government tries to distract from its own actions by blaming the United States or other members of the international community for events inside Venezuela. These efforts reflect a lack of seriousness on the part of the Venezuelan Government to deal with the grave situation it faces. Lee: Sorry. The US has – whoa, whoa, whoa – the US has a longstanding practice of not promoting – What did you say? How longstanding is that? I would – in particular in South and Latin America, that is not a longstanding practice. Psaki: Well, my point here, Matt, without getting into history –

Venezuelan Opposition Mayor Arrested In Blue Coup Plot

February 22, 2015 Rachel Boothroyd, www.venezuelanalysis.com Educate! coup, Nicholas Maduro, Venezuela

Longtime rightwing politician, Antonio Ledezma, has been arrested by the country’s intelligence services, SEBIN, for his alleged role in plotting to stage a coup against the democratically elected government of Nicolas Maduro. The planned coup was uncovered last week by security forces, just hours before several US backed Air Force officials had planned to partake in a bombing spree of strategic targets in the capital. They had hoped this would lead to the assassination of the country’s president and bring about regime change in the South American country. “Antonio Ledezma who, today, by order of the Public Prosecutor’s Office, was captured and is going to be prosecuted by the Venezuelan justice system, to make him answer to all of the crimes committed against the peace and security of the country and the Constitution… We’ve had enough of conspiracies, we want to work in peace!” announced Venezuelan President, Nicolas Maduro, amidst a chorus of cheers from onlookers.

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