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.
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.
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.
Amid raging corruption, social pathologies and outright political thuggery, a new gang of vassal regimes has taken-over Latin America. The new rulers are strictly recruited as the protégé’s of US financial and banking institutions. Hence the financial press refers to them as the “new managers” – of Wall Street.
The US financial media has once again provided a political cover for the vilest crimes committed by the ‘new managers’ as they launch their offensive against labor and in favor of the foreign and domestic financiers.
Sputnik – 03.06.2016 In the first two weeks of temporary leadership, leaked recordings have traced the interim government to a coup conspiracy against Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff and now the country’s interim leader is barred from running for office for nearly a decade. On Thursday, a regional election court in Sao Paolo issued a guilty […]
If any further proof were needed that was has recently occurred in Brazil has been a pre-planned coup, the country’s ‘interim’ government – led by immensely unpopular and illegitimate Michel Temer – is already being undermined by a leaked audio tape indicating that the impeachment of democratically elected president Dilma Rousseff was a pre-planned conspiracy. […]
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.
