Dilma Rousseff

Brazil must diversify its trade portfolio to include certain industrial areas where it can truly compete on a global level [Xinhua]
Brazil’s economy has suffered a series of setbacks and pitfalls in the midst of political crises in the past two years.
Earlier this week, President Dilma Rousseff was temporarily removed from office pending a trial as the country’s leaders face down a number of corruption allegations and a barrage of negative economic news.

Ernesto Samper, secretary-general of the Union of South American Nations. Photo – UNASUR teleSUR | May 12, 2016 Ernesto Samper, secretary-general of the Union of South American Nations, told teleSUR in an exclusive interview that Dilma Rousseff remained “the legitimate leader” of the Brazilian people and maintains “democratic legitimacy” by virtue of having been re-elected […]

La présidente brésilienne Dilma Rousseff vient d’être officiellement écartée du pouvoir présidentiel au Brésil. L’annonce fait suite au vote mercredi des sénateurs en faveur de l’ouverture du procès en destitution de la dirigeante, qui est automatiquement remplacée pour une période de 180 jours maximum par celui qui était alors vice-président de la République, Michel Temer.

The BRICS Post | May 2, 2016 Even as May Day protests were expected in cities across the world on Sunday, as economic crises and a rise in unemployment have fuelled anti-government sentiment, Brazil saw some radically different scenes. Hundreds of thousands of people marched in Brazil’s main cities on International Workers’ Day in a […]

Enough weeping! Latin America has wept incessantly, continuously, for years, decades and centuries. Its people robbed of everything since the days of Columbus, since Potosi. Tens of millions, perhaps hundreds of millions have been slaughtered here, in the last five centuries; first by the conquerors, then by their descendants and serfs, and finally by the Empire of Lies as well as the treasonous local ‘elites’.
Enough weeping, comrades! It is time to use force.

by Pepe Escobar for RT The gloomy and repulsive night when the female president of the 7th largest economy in the world was the prey of choice fed to a

By Francisco Dominguez – teleSUR – April 14, 2016 Most progressive governments in Latin America find themselves under intense attack in what is evidently a well synchronized and well financed continental plan of destabilization. Riots, street demonstrations, anti-corruption campaigns, protests about the domestic negative impact of the world economic crisis, general strikes, impeachment efforts, economic […]

The BRICS Post | April 18, 2016 The lower house of Brazil’s parliament on Sunday supported the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff, with those seeking her ouster securing the support of two-thirds of votes. The divide among the Brazilian people was demonstrated on Sunday by thousands of pro- and anti-impeachment protesters outside the Congress building where the vote […]

teleSUR | April 17, 2016 In the week leading up to the vote in the Brazilian Congress on whether to open an impeachment process against President Dilma Rousseff on Sunday, three out of the five top stories shared on Facebook were false, exposing some 200,000 people to anti-government misinformation, BBC Brazil reported. According to a […]

teleSUR | April 13, 2016 Brazil, Latin America’s largest economy and most populous nation, could be on the verge of major political change that could have ramifications not just across the region but globally. A committee of the lower house of Congress voted 38-27 on Monday April 10 to recommend the impeachment of leftist President […]