Dilma Rousseff's impeachment was led by the white, wealthy men who now make up the Brazilian cabinet

[Judi Lynn]

Dilma Rousseff's impeachment was led by the white, wealthy men who now make up the Brazilian cabinet

Brazil is among the most diverse countries on earth. Not since the last dictatorship has a Brazilian government been so unrepresentative of its people

Manuel Barcia Paz |
2 hours ago

When Brazil re-elected President Dilma Rousseff in 2014, I challenged the idea – shared by the Economist magazine, among others – that had the elections been determined by GDP (that is, by economic wealth) and not by universal suffrage, Rousseff would have never been re-elected. What seemed like a harmless remark back in 2014 turned into a nightmarish reality, as the president was forced out of office earlier this week.

Let’s start calling things by their name: what’s happening in Brazil today is a coup d’etat. A coup sponsored by both internal and external forces; forces that have many times before done away with democratically elected governments in Latin America, to satisfy the needs of neoliberal capitalism. Just for a quick check, remember the coups orchestrated in Venezuela in 2002, Haiti in 2004, and Honduras in 2009, under the uninterested eyes of the international community.

What we are seeing now is an impeachment process that was well in the making from the moment the validity of one of the largest democratic elections in the history of the world was questioned.

White, privileged, wealthy, male Brazilians have led the impeachment charges; those same white, privileged, wealthy, male Brazilians that used to have suffrage all for themselves – before power was wrested from their often-bloody hands by former slaves, indigenous populations, women, and LGTB groups.

More:
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/dilma-rousseffs-impeachment-was-led-by-the-white-wealthy-men-who-now-make-up-the-brazilian-cabinet-a7030761.html

[BillZBubb]

1. Is there any real proof Rousseff is corrupt?

I'm trying to follow this story, but haven't seen anything about the real evidence against her, if any.

[Judi Lynn]

2. Brazil's law requires a crime has been committed in order to be impeached.

They don't have any.

There is NO way a woman whose entire youth was spent fighting against the fascist dictatorship, at her own horrendous expense, (a woman everyone in Brazil knows was tortured, they even know the name of the one in charge of their torture, having saluted him last week in the Brazilian Congress in their anti-Dilma proceedings) would ever dream of taking one sweet coin for herself.

She made the choice of where her loyalties lie long, long ago, and she, as anyone knows, has never been in it for personal gain.

That is the lie being pushed by the fascist right as their excuse to get rid of her. They need an excuse to hide behind.

What they want to do is destroy the right of the Brazilian people to elect their own leftist President. The fascist powers that be don't want anyone in charge other than themselves.

[forest444]

3. It's 1964 all over again.

And to all the U.S. corporate grease monkeys who are applauding this coup, I'd remind them how that one ended up: in the 1981 debt crisis that practically bankrupted B of A, Manny Hanny, and several other big U.S. banks that were so bullish on the dictators up to the very collapse.

Those who forget history...

[MisterP]

4. I read that as "white, unhealthy men": there's definitely the smell of formaldehyde about them