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Impeachment Effort May Fail In Brazilian Senate

July 15, 2016 Mark Weisbrot, www.cepr.net ,
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 , ,
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.

Protests Erupt Over Coup Impeachment In Brazil

May 11, 2016 Staff, www.telesurtv.net , ,
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.

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

April 21, 2016 Fred Weston, www.marxist.com , ,
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.

Politicians Seeking To Impeach Dilma, Accused Of Greater Corruption

March 30, 2016 Vincent Bevins, www.latimes.com , ,
By Vincent Bevins for The Los Angeles Times - Efforts to impeach Brazil's president accelerated this month as the country fell into full-blown crisis. But the congressional commission that will help decide Dilma Rousseff's fate has its own legal problems. Of 65 members on the impeachment commission, 37 face charges of corruption or other serious crimes, according to data prepared for the Los Angeles Times by the local organization Transparencia Brasil. The commission does not represent just the congressional faction that wants Rousseff impeached, but contains members of both the ruling coalition and the opposition.

Impeachment Likelihood In Brazil Grows As Dilma Coalition Falls Apart

March 30, 2016 Anthony Boadle, www.reuters.com ,
By Anthony Boadle for Reuters - Brazil's largest party announced on Tuesday it was leaving President Dilma Rousseff's governing coalition and pulling its members from her government, a departure that sharply raises the odds she could be impeached in a matter of months. The Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB) took just a few minutes to decide unanimously in a packed leadership meeting that its six ministers in Rousseff's Cabinet and all other party members with government appointments must resign immediately.
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