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Topic Started: Mar 18 2016, 02:03 PM (3,199 Views)
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Rousseff is unpopular, and so is impeachment
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Brazilians worry that president’s removal may create a precedent for presidential change by popularity
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Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff reacts, according to local press, shortly after hearing the news that the impeachment process against had been anulled by the Lower House speaker, at a ceremony in the Planalto Palace in Brasilia, yesterday.

Rousseff impeachment vote annulled, throwing Brazil legislature into chaos
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Surprise move by interim lower house speaker comes days before consideration of motion and prompts speculation he may be acting on behalf of predecessor


Brazil crisis: Rousseff impeachment process 'back on track'
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An impeachment process against Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff appears to be back on track after the acting speaker of the lower house revoked his surprise decision to suspend a crucial vote.

Speaker Waldir Maranhao did not give any reason for his U-turn, which came less than 24 hours after he had called for a new impeachment vote.

The Senate is now expected to vote on Wednesday on an impeachment trial.

If Ms Rousseff loses, she will be suspended for the trial's duration.
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President Rousseff says impeachment process amounts to a "coup"

Brazil: Landless Workers' Movement Occupy Vice-President's Farm
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The organization has repeatedly warned that the right-wing coup attempt is closely linked to land reform in Brazil.
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Land reform NOW so the peasants can sell it to buy a motorcycle.......... :popcorn:
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Brazil’s Democracy to Suffer Grievous Blow Today as Unelectable, Corrupt Neoliberal is Installed
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Glenn Greenwald
May 11 2016, 10:48 a.m.
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So if you’re a plutocrat with ownership of the nation’s largest and most influential media outlets, what do you do? You dispense with democracy altogether – after all, it keeps empowering candidates and policies you dislike – by exploiting your media outlets to incite unrest and then install a candidate who could never get elected on his own, yet will faithfully serve your political agenda and ideology.

That’s exactly what Brazil is going to do today. The Brazilian Senate will vote later today to agree to a trial on the lower House’s impeachment charges, which will automatically result in Dilma’s suspension from the presidency pending the end of the trial.

Her successor will be Vice President Michel Temer of the PMDB party (pictured, above).
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Brazil's Dilma Rousseff to face impeachment trial
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Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff is to face trial after the Senate voted to impeach and suspend her.

Ms Rousseff is accused of illegally manipulating finances to hide a growing public deficit ahead of her re-election in 2014, which she denies.

Senators voted to suspend her by 55 votes to 22 after an all-night session that lasted more than 20 hours.

Vice-President Michel Temer will now assume the presidency while Ms Rousseff's trial takes place.
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Dilma Rousseff had said the impeachment proceedings were a "coup"
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It is not a classic Latin American coup unless her opponents kill her............. :confused:
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It is bad for PR, Robert. But surely she and Lula are going to receive the "caresses" of the "independent" judiciary...
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Argentina's Macri First World Leader to Back Ouster of Rousseff
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Temer shares the same neoliberal approach as Macri, as well as his approach to the United States.
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Buenos Aires Herald editorial:
Suspended democracy

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Press Briefing by Press Secretary Josh Earnest, 5/11/16
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Q Thanks, Josh. The Brazilian senate is likely to suspend President Rousseff today. What are the implications of that likely action for U.S.-Brazil relations?

MR. EARNEST: Well, Jeff, you heard the President talk about this when he was in Argentina, and our view at this point has not changed. The President noted our confidence in the durability of Brazil’s democratic institutions to weather this political turmoil. Brazil has a system of laws, it's a mature democracy and it has an established system for resolving these political conflicts inside their country.

So there’s no denying that this is a challenging time for the nation of Brazil and for the government officials that are trying to lead that country. Obviously Brazil is under the international spotlight. The attention of the world will be focused on Brazil later this summer when they host the Olympic Games. So Brazil is under some scrutiny and under some pressure, and the United States is going to be there to support our friend and partner as they deal with the significant challenges that they’re facing right now.

But as it relates to the political situation, we continue to have confidence in the mature, durable, democratic institutions in Brazil to withstand the challenge.

Q Does that mean that the U.S. government does not have any concerns about how that process is playing out right now and whether it's legitimate and fair and following the laws that the Brazilian people have supported?

MR. EARNEST: Well, we obviously believe that these democratic institutions were established for a reason, and the rules that guide that democracy should be followed. I'm not going to render a judgment from here about individual claims or actions that have been taken by political leaders in Brazil. Our hope -- and we continue to have confidence that those democratic institution in Brazil can weather the political turmoil that that country is dealing with right now.


Brazil's new government vows tough steps to curb runaway deficit
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Brazil's new center-right government plans to unveil tough measures soon to curb a massive budget deficit and may consider raising taxes temporarily, depending on the results of a detailed review of the fiscal situation, the finance minister said on Friday.
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Newly sworn-in Finance Minister Henrique Meirelles gestures next to Brazil's interim President Michel Temer (partially obscured) during a ceremony, after the Brazilian Senate voted to impeach President Dilma Rousseff, at the Planalto Palace in Brasilia, Brazil, May 12, 2016....
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Temer claims support for austerity in Brazil
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Still in her residence, ousted Rousseff criticizes the all-men, all-white, conservative Cabinet

BRASILIA — Brazil’s centre-right interim government pledged yesterday to take on potentially thorny reforms if it sees them necessary to jump-start the stalled economy, even as the country’s provisional President Michel Temer came under increasing fire for appointing an all-white, all-male, mostly conservative Cabinet.
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Brazil impeachment: Rousseff attacks cabinet for being all-male and all-white
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Brazil's suspended President, Dilma Rousseff, has criticised the new interim government created by her former Vice-President, Michel Temer, for being entirely made up of white male politicians.

It is the first cabinet with no women in Brazil since 1979.

Ms Rousseff said it did not represent the country - one of the world's most ethnically diverse nations.

Her government had seven women among its 31 ministers.
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Dilma Rousseff, 68, will continue to live in the presidential residence, the Alvorada Palace during her impeachment trial

'A lot of testosterone and little pigment': Brazil's old elite deals a blow to diversity
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With Dilma Rousseff out, many doubt that the all-male, mostly white cabinet taking over can unite one of the world’s most ethnically diverse nations
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Interim president Michel Temer (center) quickly showed his conservative instincts with a mostly white lineup of ministers that included a creationist in the top education post, a soy baron in charge of agriculture, and a finance minister who immediately declared the need for sweeping cuts. Photograph: Antonio Lacerda/EPA
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Venezuela president declares emergency, cites U.S., domestic 'threats'
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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro declared a 60-day state of emergency on Friday due to what he called plots from within the OPEC country and the United States to topple his leftist government.

Maduro did not provide details of the measure. A previous state of emergency, implemented in states near the Colombian border last year, suspended constitutional guarantees in those areas, except for guarantees relating to human rights.
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May 14 2016, 08:16 AM
Venezuela president declares emergency, cites U.S., domestic 'threats'
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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro declared a 60-day state of emergency on Friday due to what he called plots from within the OPEC country and the United States to topple his leftist government.

Maduro did not provide details of the measure. A previous state of emergency, implemented in states near the Colombian border last year, suspended constitutional guarantees in those areas, except for guarantees relating to human rights.
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What? Another coup d'etat in South America? First, Argentina, then Brasil, ...and this time in Venezuela? I tell ya, those 'coup happy' South Americans are a sight to behold. Er, just for some clarification here, .... a constitutionally mandated course for a change of government is not, ....NOT, ..a coup d'etat. Ya see, the Brasilian Parliament is an ELECTED Parliament, so they can do as they so choose. The usual definition of a coup is some drunken guy and his buddies invade a South American Presidential Palace in the dead of the night, guns drawn, wake the current President and his mistress (his wife is usually three doors down) and demand that he leave and/or they shoot him. Coup d'etat.

Now, Che, why post an imbecile like Maduro here on a Brasilian blog?

After observing this clown lo these many years I've come to the conclusion that this guy has LESS brains than an Amazon tree sloth. Worm-like, and just down and plain stupid. Thick, ....jug-eared. The world has never seen an idiot like Maduro on the world stage before. I mean, like, we've had corrupt politicians, silly politicians, we've had our Stalin Hitler's and Mussolini's.....but never a total buffoon like Nicolas Maduro. This fool should have been eliminated from the human genetic pool many centuries back. It's a wonder this loon can tie his own shoes, let alone figure out what to with his erection and procreate. But, somehow, someway, this genetic mutant reached the 21st century with an intellect just above, or perhaps equal to, an Amazon tree sloth.


As for Dilma, ...oh my, the fun times are over aren't they? No more Presidential trips. No more playing hostess to diplomats and power brokers. It's all over. "Honey, pack your bags and don't let the door hit you on your big, fat arse on the way out." Adios!

No more Dilma.


The left of South America weep in mourning. Their empires crumbling. They've been in charge all over South America for almost 15 years now, and utterly destroyed it. The mess they left behind will take decades to fix. They failed. They failed completely.

Three more to go, ...Correa, Morales and the Tree Sloth Maduro!


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CIA informant Temer's band of white brothers consists of seven officials accused of corruption in the Petro Bras ''lava jato'' scandal, a member of the IMF and another who is Goldman Sach's CEO in Brazil. Brazil has just moved it's capital from Brasillia to Wall Street

With Dilma out of the picture, the conversation is now all about the new, unelected and equally unpopular Temer gang. Brazil's problems are institutional, meaning that their system of government is an inane conglomeration of dozens of parties, that in order to put together ruling coalitions, each party has to be bribed with cash and cronyism, hense the Petro Bras scandal. Economically the collapse of the commodities markets worldwide, especially the crash of oil prices, is just additional weight on top of recovery

Temer, rather than dealing with the institutional reforms needed, talks of austerity measures like cutting jobs, spending and pensions, which will really make him unpopular and wont do much to bring the economy back

It doesn't matter, since he probably won't be in office long, seeing that he himself is under investigation and possible indictment for corruption. The word on the street is for new elections and soon
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All over South America the lefties/socialists are "under attack." They're falling like domino's. The game's over for most of them. They've left their people and economies in ruin.

Venezuela will fall within 6 months, perhaps sooner. That is the biggest disaster ever. It will take decades to return to a functioning society again.

All over South America, .....the lefties/socialists are.....under attack...!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAYB46Z_osM


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Venezuela's economy is in fact a wreck, Brazil and Argentina are going through recessions, not a wreck. Russia is also going through a recession, China is on the verge of a downturn. America has gone through four recessions in the last thirty years, all during republican administrations. None of these recessions are caused by social welfare programs, but in fact are the result of capitalist ''free markets'' crashing

The corporate globalists use economic recessions as an excuse to yell hysterically and call for the ouster of latin American social democratic economic systems and replace them with Wall Street neoliberal economics, which end up trashing social programs while making investors extremely wealthy, but no one else

It's called ''shock doctrine'' economics
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May 15 2016, 03:24 PM
Venezuela's economy is in fact a wreck, Brazil and Argentina are going through recessions, not a wreck. Russia is also going through a recession, China is on the verge of a downturn. America has gone through four recessions in the last thirty years, all during republican administrations. None of these recessions are caused by social welfare programs, but in fact are the result of capitalist ''free markets'' crashing

The corporate globalists use economic recessions as an excuse to yell hysterically and call for the ouster of latin American social democratic economic systems and replace them with Wall Street neoliberal economics, which end up trashing social programs while making investors extremely wealthy, but no one else

It's called ''shock doctrine'' economics
Did you, ah, ...like, ....really write that? Really? That's how you see this thing, a recession? Dude, you live on a different planet.

One is simply in awe.

Perhaps you should go down to Venezuela and become their economic adviser? They would just LOVE having a person like you giving them sound economic advice.... :popcorn:


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Attaburnsinhell
May 15 2016, 03:24 PM
Venezuela's economy is in fact a wreck, Brazil and Argentina are going through recessions, not a wreck. Russia is also going through a recession, China is on the verge of a downturn. America has gone through four recessions in the last thirty years, all during republican administrations. None of these recessions are caused by social welfare programs, but in fact are the result of capitalist ''free markets'' crashing

The corporate globalists use economic recessions as an excuse to yell hysterically and call for the ouster of latin American social democratic economic systems and replace them with Wall Street neoliberal economics, which end up trashing social programs while making investors extremely wealthy, but no one else

It's called ''shock doctrine'' economics
Did you, ah, ...like, ....really write that? Really? That's how you see this thing, a recession? Dude, you live on a different planet.

One is simply in awe.

Perhaps you should go down to Venezuela and become their economic adviser? They would just LOVE having a person like you giving them sound economic advice.... :popcorn:


Mozart
No, actually I live in Brazil. The unemployment has hit the oil industry and those who work around it mostly due to Petrobras's stock collapse, coupled with the general crash of oil prices

I understand what you are trying to do, push the idea that social welfare programs caused the collapse. Funny that these very programs over that last decade actually brought prosperity to the people, raising an astounding number of people up to the middle class here. Recessions are market driven, something we Americans learned having been through four of them since Reagan. The formula is to push a lot of cash into the system, the markets become overvalued, they immediately deflate. We saw that with the tax cut bubble, the dot com bubble, the housing bubble and the derivitives bubble, now we see the oil bubble deflate

Worldwide the wealthy are consolidating power, pushing out social democracies in central and south America, installing their puppet neoliberal governments

Thats our dystopian future - gated rich enclaves, walling out masses of former middle class and poor to fend for themselves. Classic colonial class division
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W A Mozart
 
What? Another coup d'etat in South America? First, Argentina, then Brasil, ...
Nope, not in Argentina. That is you, exaggerating.

W A Mozart
 
Er, just for some clarification here, .... a constitutionally mandated course for a change of government is not, ....NOT, ..a coup d'etat.
It is, if improperly used.

W A Mozart
 
Ya see, the Brasilian Parliament is an ELECTED Parliament, so they can do as they so choose.
Nope. They MUST follow the Constitution and the Laws.

W A Mozart
 
The usual definition of a coup is some drunken guy and his buddies invade a South American Presidential Palace in the dead of the night, guns drawn, wake the current President and his mistress (his wife is usually three doors down) and demand that he leave and/or they shoot him. Coup d'etat.
That was the definition, fourty years ago. The current definition is more sophisticated. I like this variant, in particular... :cool:

W A Mozart
 
Now, Che, why post an imbecile like Maduro here on a Brasilian blog?
Oh, just a bit of free association here, free association there... :cool:

W A Mozart
 
After observing this clown lo these many years I've come to the conclusion that...
So tell me, Wolfgang: how do you feel really about Maduro? :biggrin:

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The left of South America weep in mourning. Their empires crumbling. They've been in charge all over South America for almost 15 years now, and utterly destroyed it. The mess they left behind will take decades to fix. They failed. They failed completely.
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Thats our dystopian future - gated rich enclaves, walling out masses of former middle class and poor to fend for themselves. Classic colonial class division
Yes, that seems more and more probable. All the World System is "wired" for that.

Of course, it remains to be seen the stability of it. When the rich into the enclaves be very few, and the masses outside of the walls be huge...
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Dilma out: Brazilian plutocracy sets 54mn votes on fire
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Never in modern political history has it been so easy to “abolish the people” and simply erase 54 million votes cast in a free and fair presidential election.

Forget about hanging chads, as in Florida 2000. This is a day that will live in infamy all across the Global South – when what was one of its most dynamic democracies veered into a plutocratic regime, under a flimsy parliamentary/judicial veneer, with legal and constitutional guarantees now at the mercy of lowly comprador elites.
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8 Latin American Countries Reject Coup Against Dilma Rousseff
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Venezuela and El Salvador have recalled their ambassadors from Brazil, while several other countries have stated they support the suspended president.
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Over 800 Intellectuals and Academics Condemn Coup in Brazil
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Humanity Against the Coup in Brazil has said that the government of Michel Temer is illegitimate, and calls on UNASUR to suspend the coup against Dilma.
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Broad sections of Brazilian society, including the MST, have protested against what is said to be a parliamentary coup against democracy. | Photo: MST

HUMANITY AGAINST THE COUP IN BRAZIL
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The undersigned, intellectuals, artists, writers and researchers from all over the world denounce the coup underway in Brazil and stand in solidarity with President Dilma Rousseff who was elected by 54 million Brazilians only one year and a half ago.


Venezuela, South America, and the return of the oligarchs
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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s declaration of a state of emergency in the country he has led since the death of Hugo Chavez in 2013 marks a seminal moment not only for Venezuela but the entire region.

That the South American subcontinent is in the throes of an assault by conservative and reactionary political forces, after a period during which leftist ideas were predominant, is now beyond dispute.
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Acting Brazil leader rebuffed by two unions
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Analysts say no-shows, which underscore challenges facing Temer, a prelude to strikes
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W A Mozart
 
What? Another coup d'etat in South America? First, Argentina, then Brasil, ...
Nope, not in Argentina. That is you, exaggerating.

W A Mozart
 
Er, just for some clarification here, .... a constitutionally mandated course for a change of government is not, ....NOT, ..a coup d'etat.
It is, if improperly used.

W A Mozart
 
Ya see, the Brasilian Parliament is an ELECTED Parliament, so they can do as they so choose.
Nope. They MUST follow the Constitution and the Laws.

W A Mozart
 
The usual definition of a coup is some drunken guy and his buddies invade a South American Presidential Palace in the dead of the night, guns drawn, wake the current President and his mistress (his wife is usually three doors down) and demand that he leave and/or they shoot him. Coup d'etat.
That was the definition, fourty years ago. The current definition is more sophisticated. I like this variant, in particular... :cool:

W A Mozart
 
Now, Che, why post an imbecile like Maduro here on a Brasilian blog?
Oh, just a bit of free association here, free association there... :cool:

W A Mozart
 
After observing this clown lo these many years I've come to the conclusion that...
So tell me, Wolfgang: how do you feel really about Maduro? :biggrin:

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The left of South America weep in mourning. Their empires crumbling. They've been in charge all over South America for almost 15 years now, and utterly destroyed it. The mess they left behind will take decades to fix. They failed. They failed completely.
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Telesur? .....Telesur?

These left-wing idiots are gonna spout the achievements (.... :rotflmao: ) of Dilma Rouseff? Really?

Like, do you believe any of that? How much Kool Aid do you actually drink in the morning? Can you not look around and see for yourself the utter collapse of the Brailian economy? It is a catastrophe, an ongoing train wreck.

There is no logic to this, just blind obedience to a political cause....


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Like, do you believe any of that?
Everything. :cool:

W A Mozart
 
How much Kool Aid do you actually drink in the morning?
Nothing. Everything is very expensive, in Macri's Argentina. :cool:

W A Mozart
 
Can you not look around and see for yourself the utter collapse of the Brailian economy?
The teleSUR picture refers to all PT terms (2xLula+1.25xDilma). A bit more of 13 years. It's not an assessment of the current economic situation. :cool:

W A Mozart
 
It is a catastrophe, an ongoing train wreck.
It's serious, but not a catastrophe. That is you, exaggerating again...
...and trying to manufacturing your own, virtual crisis for justifying Shock Doctrine. :cool:

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'Brazil is not a democracy': Cannes contender's cast stage red carpet protest
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The cast and crew of Aquarius, a highly-regarded Brazilian film in Cannes, held aloft banners proclaiming ‘A coup took place in Brazil’ and ‘We will resist’ at the official premiere
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Actors Maeve Jinking and Sonia Braga and producer Emilie Lesclaux continue their protest. Photograph: Sebastien Nogier/EPA

Brazil government taps Wall Street favorite to head central bank
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Brazil's interim government on Tuesday named the lead economist of the nation's largest private bank to head the central bank, in a further shift away from interventionist policies that many blame for a deep recession and near double-digit inflation.
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'Brazil is divided': Aquarius star Sonia Braga and director address Cannes protests
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A day after staging a demonstration against what they believe to be a coup in their country, Aquarius writer-director Kleber Mendonça Filho and actor Braga explain why they are concerned for Brazil’s future
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Brazilian demonstrators band together for musical protest
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RIO DE JANEIRO - Demonstrators gathered in downtown Rio de Janeiro to stage a musical protest against the center-right interim government led by Michel Temer following the ouster of President Dilma Rousseff last week.


Brazil's Coup Cabinet Riddled with Corrupt Corporate Stooges
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The cabinet of Brazil's interim Senate-imposed President Michel Temer includes several ministers embroiled in corruption scandals.
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Serra seen as critic of Mercosur bloc
BA first stop for Brazil’s new Foreign minister
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Brazil’s new Foreign Minister José Serra aims to make Argentina his first trip abroad, planning it for next week. This should enable our country to learn at first hand his intentions as to refounding Mercosur.
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Brazil confirms bid to reset Mercosur
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Foreign minister says relationship with Argentina is ‘fundamental,’ defines clear shift in policy

Argentina will be one of the main priorities for Brazil’s interim government under President Michel Temer, newly-appointed Foreign Minister José Serra declared yesterday, adding that the new administration will seek to review and redraw the Mercosur bloc and trade agreements with the United States, the European Union and Japan.
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Watch: First Interview With Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff Since the Senate’s Impeachment Vote
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Dilma Rousseff: Old Brazilian oligarchy behind ‘coup’ (FULL INTERVIEW)
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Unseated Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has spoken to RT in her first TV interview since being suspended from office by the country’s Senate. She says that the old Brazilian oligarchy is behind the impeachment process, and vows to fight the “coup.”
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Lula: Media, US-Friendly Elites Responsible for Brazil's Coup
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Lula told teleSUR that new Senate-imposed interim President Michel Temer is making decisions that do not correspond to an interim, democratic government.
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When asked about his possible candidacy in the next presidential elections, he said there could be younger people with great ideas who can become president. However, he said he will run only if he has to defend the destruction of all the social policies.

"They are putting into practice what they always did and what they always believed, what a mistake," Lula said of the right wing.
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Former Brazilian President and political leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva during an interview with teleSUR in Sao Paulo, Brazil, May 19, 2016. | Photo: teleSUR

Brazil's interim government wastes no time erasing Workers' party influence
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In just a week, centre-right government has scaled back social policies as ideological shift already has sparked outrage and fear of going backward
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Michel Temer meets with legislators Laura Carneiro, right and Dulce Miranda, left, during a meeting with female deputies who support his government. Photograph: Fernando Bizerra Jr/EPA
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It is just a week since Michel Temer became interim president of Brazil, but his new centre-right administration already has begun scaling back many of the social policies put in place by Workers’ party governments over the previous 13 years.

Moves are under way to soften the definition of slavery, roll back the demarcation of indigenous land, trim housebuilding programs and sell off state assets in airports, utilities and the post office. Newly appointed ministers also are talking of cutting healthcare spending and reducing the cost of the bolsa familia poverty relief system. Four thousand government jobs have been cut. The culture ministry has been subsumed into education.
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