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Protests in Brazil's 2 biggest cities against acting leader
Topic Started: May 23 2016, 07:46 AM (1,158 Views)
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By MAURICIO SAVARESE May. 22, 2016 7:58 PM EDT

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of Brazil's two biggest cities Sunday to protest against acting President Michel Temer, trying to keep up pressure on his interim administration only 10 days after he was sworn in.

At least 2,000 protesters in Sao Paulo tried to march to Temer's residence but were blocked by police on neighboring roads. Led by the country's homeless movements, many decided to camp out only 300 meters (yards) from the house. The interim president had left for Brasilia hours earlier.

In Rio de Janeiro, about 1,000 protesters staged a march calling for Temer to resign.
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Caetano Veloso protests against Temer
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The Grammy award-winner and other artists raise their voices at an occupied government building
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This picture was posted on Caetano Veloso’s Twitter account during the concert to protest against Brazil’s interm government.
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Are the thousands looking for political change or free entertainment ???...................... :dunno:
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Brazil Leak: Corrupt Leaders Seek Protection with Coup
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The taped conversation is the strongest proof to date that Dilma Rousseff's rivals' bid to remove her from office is more about protecting corruption than rooting it out.
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Brazil's MST landless workers' movement protest against interim President Michel Temer and in support of Dilma Rousseff in Sao Paulo, May 22, 2016. | Photo: Reuters

New Political Earthquake in Brazil: Is It Now Time for Media Outlets to Call This a “Coup”?
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Glenn Greenwald, Andrew Fishman and David Miranda
May 23 2016, 11:31 a.m.
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They show explicit plotting between the new planning minister (then-senator), Romero Jucá, and former oil executive Sergio Machado — both of whom are formal targets of the “Car Wash” corruption investigation — as they agree that removing Dilma is the only means for ending the corruption investigation. The conversations also include discussions of the important role played in Dilma’s removal by the most powerful national institutions, including — most importantly — Brazil’s military leaders.
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The transcripts contain two extraordinary revelations that should lead all media outlets to seriously consider whether they should call what took place in Brazil a “coup”: a term Dilma and her supporters have used for months. When discussing the plot to remove Dilma as a means of ending the Car Wash investigation, Jucá said the Brazilian military is supporting the plot: “I am talking to the generals, the military commanders. They are fine with this, they said they will guarantee it.” He also said the military is “monitoring the Landless Workers Movement” (Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra, or MST), the social movement of rural workers that supports PT’s efforts of land reform and inequality reduction and has led the protests against impeachment.

The second blockbuster revelation — perhaps even more significant — is Jucá’s statement that he spoke with and secured the involvement of numerous justices on Brazil’s Supreme Court, the institution that impeachment defenders have repeatedly pointed to as vesting the process with legitimacy in order to deny that Dilma’s removal is a coup. Jucá claimed that “there are only a small number” of Court justices to whom he had not obtained access (the only justice he said he ultimately could not get to is Teori Zavascki, who was appointed by Dilma and who — notably — Jucá viewed as incorruptible in obtaining his help to kill the investigation (a central irony of impeachment is that Dilma has protected the Car Wash investigation from interference by those who want to impeach her)). The transcripts also show him saying that “the press wants to take her [Dilma] out,” so “this s**t will never stop” — meaning the corruption investigations — until she’s gone.

The transcripts provide proof for virtually every suspicion and accusation impeachment opponents have long expressed about those plotting to remove Dilma from office. For months, supporters of Brazil’s democracy have made two arguments about the attempt to remove the country’s democratically elected president: (1) the core purpose of Dilma’s impeachment is not to stop corruption or punish lawbreaking, but rather the exact opposite: to protect the actual thieves by empowering them with Dilma’s exit, thus enabling them to kill the Car Wash investigation; and (2) the impeachment advocates (led by the country’s oligarchical media) have zero interest in clean government, but only in seizing power that they could never obtain democratically, in order to impose a right-wing, oligarch-serving agenda that the Brazilian population would never accept.
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Brazil leaked tape forces minister Romero Juca out
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A close ally of Brazil's acting President Michel Temer is stepping aside in a new political scandal.

Planning Minister Romero Juca was caught on tape allegedly conspiring to obstruct the country's biggest-ever corruption investigation.

In the tapes, leaked by a newspaper, he appears to talk of stopping the probe at oil giant Petrobras by impeaching suspended President Dilma Rousseff.

Mr Juca says his comments have been taken out of context.
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Romero Juca (left) is one of acting President Michel Temer's closest advisers
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I'll be in Sao Paulo this week, but avoiding any protests. New rules put out that any foreigner seen protesting the new government can be deported

Also theyre trying to pass a law where you can be arrested for criticizing the government on social media

This place is getting bad
Edited by Attaburnsinhell, May 25 2016, 07:23 AM.
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Rousseff Says Leaked Recording Proves Her Ouster Was a Coup
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Dilma Rousseff said a leaked recording proves that those who plotted her ouster carried out a coup d'etat.
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Dilma Rousseff says she was impeached to prevent more corruption investigations | Photo: EFE

Brazilian Author Paulo Coelho Denounces Coup Against Rousseff
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Brazil's most famous writer Paulo Coelho called on people to defend democracy and expose those who undermined it.
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Coelho during a speech | Photo: EFE



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This place is getting bad
Good luck to you, Man. It is not very much better here.
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May 25 2016, 07:34 AM
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This place is getting bad
Good luck to you, Man. It is not very much better here.
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Attaburnsinhell
May 25 2016, 09:36 AM
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May 25 2016, 07:34 AM
Attaburnsinhell
 
This place is getting bad
Good luck to you, Man. It is not very much better here.
Boa sorté, amigo
Yes, yes, ...I quite agree with both of you. After nearly 17 years or so of lunatic socialist rule in both Argentina and Brasil has left BOTH economies in a state of utter collapse. Let's hope that this new Macri government, and whichever government follows that ding-a-ling Rousseff, will be able to turn both economies around. The insane economic policies brought about economic chaos. As a result of all the extensive damage done by the socialists and their ilk, it may take a minimum of two years or so to right the economic course. A tough, road ahead, but an optimistic one.

Good luck to all of us!

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Boa sorté, amigo
Yes, yes, ...I quite agree with both of you. After nearly 17 years or so of lunatic socialist rule in both Argentina and Brasil has left BOTH economies in a state of utter collapse. Let's hope that this new Macri government, and whichever government follows that ding-a-ling Rousseff, will be able to turn both economies around. The insane economic policies brought about economic chaos. As a result of all the extensive damage done by the socialists and their ilk, it may take a minimum of two years or so to right the economic course. A tough, road ahead, but an optimistic one.

Good luck to all of us!

Mozart
Calling Brasil a socialist country shows a total lack of knowledge, you might as well call Sweden a communist bloc state. Brasil has been forever an uber capitalist economy with some mild social programs, most of them underfunded due to so much money siphoned off through cronyism and corruption. Most of the corruption done by the people who now took over, the rightwing evangelicals

Capitalism cannot survive without a form of socialism within it's system, it just has to be properly managed and enforced
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Attaburnsinhell
May 25 2016, 09:36 AM
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May 25 2016, 07:34 AM
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This place is getting bad
Good luck to you, Man. It is not very much better here.
Boa sorté, amigo
If Atta gets deported by Brazil, will they give him a free bus ride to the US border ???.......... :dunno:
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Brazil president reinstates Culture Ministry after artists protest
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Brazil's interim President Michel Temer will reinstate the Culture Ministry on Monday, a government official said, after an outcry from some of the country's top artists over his policy to fold it into the Education Ministry to save money.

The decision to ax the culture ministry was part of Temer's drive to tackle Brazil's record government deficit by reducing the number of ministries by 10 to 23, one of the first measures he announced when he took office on May 12.

Singer-songwriters Caetano Veloso and Erasmo Carlos, pioneers of Brazil's tropicalia and rock music movements, held a concert in the Education building in Rio de Janeiro last Friday in one of the protests by artists against the move.
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Brazil's interim President Michel Temer looks on during a meeting with Pedro Parente (not pictured), newly named chief executive of Brazil's state-run oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA at the Planalto Palace in Brasilia, Brazil, May 19, 2016.
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Brazil farm workers movement promises new wave of land occupations
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - One of Latin America's largest activist groups has promised a new wave of farm occupations in Brazil following President Dilma Rousseff's suspension to stand trial in the Senate, an official with the Landless Workers Movement (MST) said.

The movement, a long-time ally of Rousseff's Workers Party which says it has two million members across Brazil, will target "idle" farm land owned by members of the interim government and its backers, MST spokeswoman Marina do Santos said on Tuesday.

"We will intensify our occupations of unused land," Santos told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in an interview.


Brazil to lift limits on foreigners' owning of land
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Brazil's government plans to lift current limits on foreign ownership of agricultural land, Secretary of Investment Moreira Franco, the person behind privatization for the new administration, told Reuters on Wednesday.

Franco called the restriction on sales of agricultural land to foreign individuals and companies "nonsense" and said interim President Michel Temer will reconsider the issue.

The restriction was adopted in 2010 by former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
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The Brazilian Coup and Washington’s “Rollback” in Latin America
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Written by Mark Weisbrot
Published: 26 May 2016

It is clear that the executive branch of the U.S. government favors the coup underway in Brazil, even though they have been careful to avoid any explicit endorsement of it. Exhibit A was the meeting between Tom Shannon, the 3rd ranking U.S. State Department official and the one who is almost certainly in charge of handling this situation, with Senator Aloysio Nunes, one of the leaders of the impeachment in the Brazilian Senate, on April 20.
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Washington’s Cold War never ended in Latin America, and now they see their opportunity for “rollback.” Brazil is a big prize, as is evidenced by the new foreign minister in the interim government. He is José Serra, who ran unsuccessfully for president against first Lula (2002) and Dilma (2010), and is expected to use his current position – if this government survives – as a springboard for a third shot at the presidency.
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This is the kind of guy that Washington wants, very badly, in charge of Brazil’s foreign policy. Although corporations are obviously a big player in U.S. foreign policy, and they literally do much of the writing of commercial agreements like NAFTA and the TPP, the number one guiding principle in Washington’s foreign policy apparatus is not short-term profit but power.


Brazil senate head recorded proposing to weaken bribes investigation
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Renan Calheiros heard in wire tap suggesting changes to use of plea bargains for people arrested in the Petrobras scandal
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Renan Calheiros, right, talks to Michel Temer, Brazil’s acting president while Dilma Rousseff awaits trial. Photograph: Eraldo Peres/AP

Shocking Brazil Leaks Prompt Panic in Fraud-Riddled Coup Govt
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Three leaked conversations crashed onto Brazil's political scene this week, raising concerns more damning evidence behind Rousseff's ouster is to come.
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Michel Temer | Photo: Reuters

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Dilma Rousseff’s suspension is an insult to democracy in Brazil
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Women protesting in support of suspended Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff in São Paulo last week. Photograph: Nacho Doce/Reuters
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Perhaps not their Dilma back, but the ladies facial expressions suggest they got their dildo back.............. :cool:
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Temer finds strength in Evangelical pastors
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By Dom Phillips & Nick Miroff
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Brazilian interim president pacts with Christian leaders who accuse Dilma of ‘Marxist’
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With a population of 205 million, Brazil remains the world’s largest Catholic nation, but 22 percent of Brazilians identify as evangelical Christians.
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The facial expressions on the pastor's suggests their wives replaced them for a dido............. :banghead:
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Brazil will always be the country of the future.
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The White Race is already past, Kid. So, paint your face black and repeat after me: "¡Hola, mis Hermanos! ¡Cuánto los amo!" :biggrin:
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MST: Fight Against Brazil Coup Is Now to Be 'Fire Against Fire'
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MST Coordinator Joao Pedro Stedile, said its now about mobilization against the coup and destabilizing the government as it was done in Paraguay
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Joao Pedro Stedile, MST's coordinator | Photo: Public Domain

New Leak: Brazil Coup Plotters Sought Protection from Corruption Probe
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Leaked wiretaps have shed light not only on deep hypocrisy within Brazil's coup government, but also laid bare the true motivations behind the plan to remove Dilma Rousseff.
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Demonstrators protest against the installed government of interim President Michel Temer in Sao Paulo, Brazil, May 22, 2016. | Photo: EFE

Ousted Brazil leader ON LEAKED RECORDINGS
Rousseff: impeachment trial is attempt to block graft probe
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Suspended president claims removed speaker Cunha, not Temer, is leading government

RIO DE JANEIRO — Suspended President Dilma Rousseff said in an interview published yesterday that leaked audio recordings of politicians backing her impeachment show the effort to oust her is meant to stop the wide-ranging Petrobras corruption probe.
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Suspended Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, at a press conference held in Brasilia in this month.
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Second minister in new Brazil government quits
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The anti-corruption minister in Brazil's interim government has resigned, after a recording suggested he tried to derail an investigation into the state oil company, Petrobras.
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Fabiano Silveira resigned hours after staff at his Ministry scrubbed his office door calling for his resignation

Lava Jato: Brazilian anti-corruption minister quits over secret recording
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Interim president Michel Temer loses another member of his cabinet – this time over evidence that Fabiano Silveira gave advice on undermining graft inquiry
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The reputation of Brazil’s new interim government has slipped from fragile to farcical after a minister tasked with fighting corruption was forced to resign over a secretly recorded conversation implicating him in a cover-up.

Just 18 days after being installed as part of the new cabinet, Fabiano Silveira became the second minister to lose his post as a result of leaked tapes suggesting there is a coordinated, high-level campaign to quash the Lava Jato (car wash) investigation into a kickback scandal involving the state-run oil company Petrobras and dozens of politicians.
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Barely two weeks into office, Temer is struggling to restore his credibility. Hopes that his ascension to power would provide at least a short-term boost to the economy have been belied by a decline in the main Bovispa stock market index and a weakening of the currency against the US dollar.

The stand-in president was also forced into a U-turn on his downgrade of the culture ministry after protests by grammy-winning musician Caetano Veloso and other artists.
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Eliminating corruption in Latin America is actually a fight over who gets to do the corruption.............. :rotflmao:
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