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Judi Lynn

(160,545 posts) Sat May 14, 2016, 12:35 AM May 2016

Dilma Out: Brazilian Plutocracy Sets 54 Million Votes on Fire

May 13, 2016
Dilma Out: Brazilian Plutocracy Sets 54 Million Votes on Fire

by Pepe Escobar

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.

After the proverbial marathon, the Brazilian Senate voted 55-22 to put President Dilma Rousseff on trial for “crimes of responsibility” – related to alleged window dressing of the government’s budget.

This is the culmination of a drawn-out process that started even before Rousseff won re-election in late 2014 with over 54 million votes. I have described the bunch of perpetrators of what Brazilian creativity has termed ‘golpeachment’ (a mix of coup – “golpe” in Portuguese – and impeachment) as Hybrid War hyenas.

More:
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/05/13/dilma-out-brazilian-plutocracy-sets-54mn-votes-on-fire/

Good Reads:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1016156292

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Dilma Out: Brazilian Plutocracy Sets 54 Million Votes on Fire (Original Post) Judi Lynn May 2016 OP

I don't anticipate an easy transition for the right wing plutocrats Warpy May 2016 #1

Dilma is NOT "out." Good grief. She is on trial and she is SUSPENDED. For now. MADem May 2016 #2

Warpy

(111,282 posts)

1. I don't anticipate an easy transition for the right wing plutocrats

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Sat May 14, 2016, 12:42 AM

May 2016

If anything, it's going to be even uglier than what's going on to the south, in Argentina.

All hell will break out, whether or not there's any news about it that gets out.

MADem

(135,425 posts)

2. Dilma is NOT "out." Good grief. She is on trial and she is SUSPENDED. For now.

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Sat May 14, 2016, 12:51 AM

May 2016

The judiciary has six months to find her guilty or innocent.

If they find her guilty, she is out.

If they find her innocent, she is reinstated.

If they fart around and don't get it done in six months, she goes back to work.

COUNTERPUNCH, as usual, is being hyperbolic, overly dramatic, and partisan to the point where they screw the narrative for their OWN supposed side.

Unless they've decided she's guilty before her trial and they're throwing gas on that fire.

Dilma plans on fighting the charges. If the pretext is flimsy, as COUNTERPUNCH says, maybe she will succeed. Maybe she's got evidence that will exonerate her. It's all down to accounting, really--this isn't a matter of OPINION, this is a matter of where's the cash and how was it managed.

Yet COUNTERPUNCH has already convicted her while AT THE SAME TIME wearing a hair shirt and whining about the Great Unfairness of It All.

Feh.

I'm a fan of letting the process play out.

She is NOT IMPEACHED until there is a conviction. That's Brazilian law--maybe the geniuses at COUNTERPUNCH ought to learn that before they write hyper-dramatic screeds accusing the Judiciary of convicting her before the trial has even begun.

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