Dilma Rousseff

With little protest from Washington, Brazil’s elected President Dilma Rousseff was ousted in a politically motivated impeachment, a “soft coup” undermining South American democracy, write Hector Perla Jr., Laura Sholtz and Liliana Muscarella. By Hector Perla Jr., Laura Sholtz and…Read more →

Btaaboura is a tiny village in the mountains of northern Lebanon. It is connected to the main motorway by a narrow winding road. It could be just anywhere in the Christian part of this country: white stone houses, olive groves, wine grapes, bare hills.
Like elsewhere, the wealth is hardly backed by hard work. It is mainly sustained by remittances flowing from abroad. There are grotesquely luxury cars everywhere – Audis, BMWs. And there is a Western Union office on the main street. All doors are closed; nothing moves.

RT | September 1, 2016 Was the impeachment process against Brazil’s Dilma Rousseff justified? Is interim President Michel Temer credible? How will the people of Brazil react and are we likely to see protests escalating? Suspended Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff was impeached on Wednesday, after the final vote in Senate. She was ruled to have […]

Les citoyens brésiliens ont à subir un nouvel épisode dans le feuilleton tragique qui pèse sur les esprits depuis le printemps. Il fragilise la démocratie de la septième puissance économique mondiale. La présidente Dilma Rousseff est sous le coup d’une procédure d’impeachment depuis le 12 avril 2016. C’est la date à laquelle le parlement avait voté à la majorité le démarrage de la destitution.

Radical journals, impeachment trials and states of emergency + this day in history w/Shays' Rebellion and our song of the day by Marshall Terry on your Morning Monarchy for August 29, 2016.

Impeaching Rousseff, analysts warn, could plunge Brazil into further political crises and divide the country already beleaguered by economic contraction [Xinhua]
With the largely successful Rio summer Olympics at an end, Brazilians are forced to return to the sobering political reality of their country.
President Dilma Rousseff will be put on trial by the end of the week on charges of mismanaging the federal budget and breaking a number of fiscal policy rules during her reelection campaign.

Press TV – August 17, 2016 Brazil’s suspended President Dilma Rousseff has pledged to hold early elections if she survives a vote on her removal from office in an impeachment trial that is expected to conclude this month. Rousseff, accused of illegally manipulating finances to hide a growing public deficit ahead of her reelection in […]

By Aline C. Piva | Council on Hemispheric Affairs | June 6, 2016 The already fragile legitimacy of Michel Temer’s interim government in Brazil took a huge blow last week. Leaked audios involving Temer’s closest allies revealed a plot to oust democratically elected Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff as part of a plan to put an […]

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