66% of Brazilians Say Congress Voted Coup for Their Own Benefit

May 22, 2016


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Women protest against Brazil's interim President Michel Temer and in support of suspended President Dilma Rousseff in Sao Paulo, May 17, 2016/Photo: Reuters
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Less than one quarter of Brazilians think that lawmakers acted with the best interests of the country at heart when approving the coup against Dilma Rousseff.

As the interim government of coup-imposed President Michel Temer continues to act as a permanent power rather than a temporary fix while suspended President Dilma Rousseff stands trial for budget manipulations, a new poll reported Sunday by Globo shows that two thirds of Brazilians believe that lawmakers voted in their own self interest in giving the green light to the impeachment process.

According to the survey, conducted by Brazilian market research company Ibope between May 12 and 16, only 23 percent of Brazilians believe that members of Congress and the Senate acted “on behalf of the country’s interests” when casting their votes on whether to move forward an impeachment process against Rousseff.

Meanwhile, 66 percent believe that politicians voted “for their own benefit and interests of private parties and institutions” when carrying out what has been called a parliamentary coup.

More:
http://www.caribflame.com/2016/05/66-of-brazilians-say-congress-voted-coup-for-their-own-benefit/

EXCLUSIVE: Brazil, the World’s Second-Largest Black Nation, Has Been Taken Over by an All White Male Cabinet — Here’s What’s at Stake for Its Afro-Descendants

May 22, 2016 | Posted by David Love

Brazil has the fifth-largest population and the sixth-largest economy in the world. And if the nation’s new government of all white men has its way, Black power will be erased. Brazil’s majority African-descended population will be shut out of the process, losing the socioeconomic and political gains they have made in recent years.

Aside from Nigeria, no other country has as many Black people as Brazil. And yet, one would not know this solely by looking at the recently installed cabinet. Although this is a story unto itself, it is only the beginning of the story.

When Brazil’s Senate voted to impeach leftist President Dilma Rousseff of the Worker’s Party — who was imprisoned and tortured in 1970 under the nation’s former military regime — it used charges of corruption as a pretext, a smokescreen for what has been called a coup d’etat, observers say. Rousseff is accused of manipulating the government’s financial accounts and hiding a budget deficit for political gain, as the BBC reported.

Meanwhile, Vice President Michel Temer — who is of Lebanese descent and served as a U.S. diplomatic informant, according to Wikileaks — has replaced Rousseff and appointed a cabinet of 22 white men. Temer and six of his new ministers also face corruption charges in connection with a scandal at Petrobas, the state-owned oil company, according to The Guardian.

More:
http://atlantablackstar.com/2016/05/22/exclusive-brazil-the-worlds-second-largest-black-nation-has-been-taken-over-by-an-all-white-male-cabinet-heres-whats-at-stake-for-its-afro-descendants/

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The story may vary slightly but the impetus does not. Leftists out, neo-liberals in.
And the changes are the same. It's happening in the U.S. too, and all over the world
The media and their backers barely bother to hide their intentions anymore.