I hope she runs again and wins.

Rousseff isn't without blame, not at all. She should have never signed up for the World Cup and Olympics, it was a really bad decision which greatly hurt the country. However, that's not why she's being impeached, she's impeached because the rich people weren't getting what they want, too many rules (according to them) were passed to protect workers that reduced their obscene profits. That's why she's going with the Olympics and other charges as window dressing. My son in law is Brazilian and is very saddened by this and what the strife is doing to his country.

Brazil's political system is just completely fucked up.

Don't play the game and odds are that come next cycle you'll get zero party support. Even if your policies follow the party line.

I thought that she was also responsible for them coming to Brazil, but obviously I misunderstood. I apologize.

Take some time to reread the article.

My son-in-law is Brazilian, been in the US for not quite 2 years, and that's what he told me.

than to kiss oligarch ass and still get hated. Keep in mind, she could not attend the world cup because people would scream racial slurs loud enough to be caught on camera.

she did would have been twisted into cause to impeach her.

And there will be hell to pay for them this time too.

Probably everyone is to some extent implicated in corruption;but I suspect no, I am sure - that her opponents are much more so than she is, and that it's basically a machination to get the left out of power.

And we just know that the Republicans will take this as impetus for trying to do the same to Hillary Clinton if she wins, just as they attempted with Bill.

to the struggle to make her country a place where the enormous mass of poor, downtrodden, locked out people could find a way to safer lives with adequate shelter, food, water, electricity, education, medical treatment, and HOPE.

They are from a decadent, diseased, entitled world which has historically abused those Dilma Rousseff has worked her whole life to protect. Anyone with half a brain would recognize Dilma, a woman who endured imprisonment and gained a reputation in prison for her ability to withstand torture is NOT a woman who was in the struggle for profit, and she wouldn't have already given so much of herself by now to throw it away by becoming dirty like them. Everyone knows she is heroic, always has been.

From the original article posted above:

How did her party lose so many seats that the opposition had 61-20 advantage?

military dictatorship.

They weren't appointed. Somehow the people of Brazil voted for this government.

Maybe they are as willfully stupid as US voters voting in Republican majorities in the House and Senate.

I hate Rick Scott with every bone in my body.

"But my political opponents were doing it too!" Isn't a legal defense...

Whether the charges leading to her impeachment had merit or not, I did not hear.

The Latest: Rousseff supporters smash windows in Brazil

Updated 8:53 pm, Wednesday, August 31, 2016

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — The Latest on the impeachment trial of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff (all times local):

10:50 p.m.

Unhappy with Dilma Rousseff's ouster, a group of Brazilians smashed windows of bank branches, other businesses and a police SUV in the city of Sao Paulo.

Anti-riot police tried to quell the demonstration that began in one of the city's main avenues with stun grenades and tear gas. The protest turned violent right after new leader Michel Temer addressed the nation in a televised message. It's not clear whether anyone was injured in the clashes.

. . .

Earlier around the same area, a group of people cut cake and drank sparkling wine to celebrate the change in power.

More:
http://www.chron.com/news/world/article/The-Latest-Vote-nears-on-whether-to-remove-9194973.php#photo-10858035

Ecuador, Venezuela & Bolivia have recalled their ambassadors. They all know progressive regimes are under assault by the oligarchs.

Good luck to these three. They have constantly been harassed from their first days in office, as well. Big money doesn't like leaders who won't look after US business interests and their lackeys in the Americas instead of their own people. It's been that way far too long. It's not going to last forever, either.

Sheer force and terrorism will not win, in the end.

In fact, I foresee the Chavista government collapsing in a couple of years due to their own corruption and incompetence (not any bullshit US-led coup). The landscape of South America is changing, it is leaving behind the hard-left regimes that have shown to be just as corrupt and/or incompetent as their right-wing predecessors (if not more. At least definitely in Venezuela it's worse). Soon Evo and Correa will leave office, and either a more moderate left will take over (a la Chile) or a center-right government will come in (a la Peru)

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Brazil’s Dilma Rousseff, a Woman of Honor, Confronts Senate of Scoundrels
August 31, 2016
by Pepe Escobar

Dilma Rousseff entered the Senate and calmly stared down her accusers. She left with her head held high after exhorting those Senators to vote with their conscience.

Most of those politicians present probably had no idea what conscience means; they’re no more than corrupt messenger boys. But the Brazilian collective unconscious – Jung to the rescue – will be marked.

President Dilma Rousseff, in a detailed, occasionally emotional speech, defended herself with honor and dignity from accusations she committed a “crime of responsibility”. She was not actually facing a political cesspool, but that ‘Angel of History’ so beloved by Walter Benjamin. History will judge her kindly.

Meanwhile, it ain’t over till a dodgy politico sings. As I write, Rousseff is on the way to be stripped from the presidency of the world’s 8th largest economy by a bunch of scoundrel-cum-coward politicos. Her only fear, she said, was the “death of democracy”. Rousseff’s impeachment means in practice that democratic voting in one of the world’s largest democracies will be cancelled by a parliamentary coup remote-controlled by oligarchic interests. This is not, and never was, about justice; it’s about dirty, nasty politics.

More:
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/08/31/brazils-dilma-rousseff-a-woman-of-honor-confronts-senate-of-scoundrels/