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| Rousseff: Brazil faces threat of coup d’etat |
| 2016-04-17 |
| [Iran Press TV] Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff has accused supporters of her impeachment of trying to grab power in order to avoid corruption charges against themselves, saying the country faces the threat of a coup d’état. In a video and a newspaper column published on Saturday, Rousseff strongly denied No, no! Certainly not! she had committed an impeachable crime, saying the parliamentary bid to oust her from power is the biggest legal and political fraud in Brazil’s history. "We are facing the threat of a coup d'état, a coup without guns that uses more destructive methods like fraud and lies to try to destroy a legitimately elected government," Rousseff, Brazil's first female president, wrote in the Folha de S. Paulo newspaper. Rousseff accused Vice President Michel Temer and House Speaker Eduardo Cunha of leading a conspiracy against her. Lower House politicians are due to vote on Sunday on whether to call for an impeachment. The pro-impeachment camp needs 342 votes, or two-thirds of the 513 votes in the chamber, to send the proceedings to the senate for a possible trial. Then a simple majority among the senators would see Rousseff out of power. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 #3 Why is this sounds familiar? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2016-04-17 15:20 |
| #3 Brazil is run by Socialists. Brazilians will tell you themselves quality of Brazilian products is low. Everyone buys American goods sold in Brazil. Taxes are extremely high. Money left over after taxes will take you a lifetime to pay for an un-air-conditioned car that is a standard transmission, not automatic. Most people ride motorcycles or bicycles. Too many layers of inefficiency because the feds are everywhere duplicating positions that municipalities already have people for. Where you see one municipal police officer in a city, there are two military (federal) police officers. The military and state run operations is the only place to actually make a living. Numerous female Brazilians hold college degrees but are out of work. So they assume the traditional role of house wife and spend the day hanging out with their other girl friends on the front porch in the hammocks and watch the world go by and then everyone parties on the weekends (the carnivals). People learn to live in such environments. When state owned oil company Petrobraus starting making money all of the politicians required kickbacks. Now it is $300 billion in the red and the numerous political parties are blaming each other for the demise. Been that way for generations. |
| Posted by: Craish Squank2109 2016-04-17 14:02 |
| #2 I am shocked to hear that someone wants to run Brazil. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2016-04-17 09:27 |
| #1 The Olympics are going to be an epic shitshow - I can't wait! |
| Posted by: Raj 2016-04-17 01:43 |