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Kerry’s Brazil Meeting: Showing Support for an Illegitimate Government
August 15, 2016
Kerry’s Brazil Meeting: Showing Support for an Illegitimate Government
by Mark Weisbrot
On July 25, 43 Democratic members of the US House of Representatives wrote to Secretary of State Kerry. The letter began:
We write to express our deep concern regarding recent developments in Brazil that we believe threaten that country’s democratic institutions. We urge you to exercise the utmost caution in your dealings with Brazil’s interim authorities and to refrain from statements or actions that might be interpreted as supportive of the impeachment campaign launched against President Dilma Rousseff.
Our government should express strong concern regarding the circumstances surrounding the impeachment process and call for the protection of constitutional democracy and the rule of law in Brazil.
On Monday, Sen. Bernie Sanders (Vt.) also weighed in, noting, “After suspending Brazil’s first female president on dubious grounds, without a mandate to govern the new interim government abolished the ministry of women, racial equality and human rights.” He added: “The United States cannot sit silently while the democratic institutions of one of our most important allies are undermined.”
More:
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/08/15/kerrys-brazil-meeting-showing-support-for-an-illegitimate-government/
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