Dilma's Speech & Coup D'etat In Brasil...?

[Rich One]

Dilma delivered an emotional weeping speech in Congress, expressing she was a victim of torture during the Dictatorship and also now a Coup D'etat against her government and against democracy...


Weeping adds or detracts from her speech, will congressmen be moved by her tears....!r

Voting estimated 52 in favour 18 against impeachment, 10 not decided

WP article Today

Rousseff began her Senate testimony with an emotional address, in which she spoke of the torture she suffered as a left-wing guerrilla imprisoned by a military dictatorship in the 1970s. She insisted that the attempt to remove her from office amounted to a coup that would only worsen Brazil’s political and economic crisis.


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[Noesdeayer]

" Impeachment Will Not Solve The Mess In Brazil" is the title of an article in today's Washington Post which you can read in today's BA Herald as well.
Really? OMG..Michel Temer promised a gov't of national salvation. What happened? Goldman Sachs says Brazilian gov't debt will continue going up for the next 5 to 6 yeras at least.
One of Brazil's main problems are their own gov't employees .They already earn 59% above the average wage and were given an added increase during the worst recession in decades.One result being there is little $$$ left over for highways,schools and hospitals in spite of relatively high fiscal income.
Technically this is not a coup but,in my view,Dilma is being made "the fall guy" or gal for the wholesale corruption endemic in Brazil.
A gov't of national salvation? Looks to me more like Temer's dog and pony show.

 

[Rich One]

Dilma is Gone impeached...! by 61 votes , Lula next ?

 

[camberiu]

Dilma is Gone impeached...! by 61 votes , Lula next ?

Unlikely, since he hasn't been president since 2012 (2010 actually. My bad).

 

[Rich One]

Unlikely, since he hasn't been president since 2012.

Meant to be processed and charged ??? for Petrolao and other charges

 

[camberiu]

Meant to be processed and charged ??? for Petrolao and other charges

He has already been formally charged for money laundry and fraud .

 

[EJLarson]

Unlikely, since he hasn't been president since 2012 (2010 actually. My bad).

You're the guy with the knowledge. What happens now? Seems that the incoming crowd is no better than the outgoers, and the legal sword is over all their heads. Is anyone in the whole government not liable to be indicted? Is there a possibility even of forming a government that could hope for popular support?

 

[camberiu]

You're the guy with the knowledge. What happens now? Seems that the incoming crowd is no better than the outgoers, and the legal sword is over all their heads. Is anyone in the whole government not liable to be indicted? Is there a possibility even of forming a government that could hope for popular support?

There is no "incoming crowd". Temer was her hand picked vice-president for 2 terms.
What happens next? Nobody knows, as we are going through uncharted territory. Never in the history of the Republic did we ever have a working judiciary, so this is all very new.
The political class is stressed out and scared, as people at the municipal, state and federal level are getting prosecuted and arrested. The economic damage left by Dilma is immense and almost impossible to measure. All government banks are insolvent. Petrobras is broke and indebted in dollars. Temer will have to make some extremely unpopular measures, but he is already highly unpopular and uncharismatic. It will be some very hard years ahead.
But underneath it all, we now have a judiciary that works, a military that wants zero involvement in civilian matters, a government that tried to undermine the currency for political purposes and paid a heavy price for it, and hopefully a population that is learning from all of this.

 

[Rich One]

He has already been formally charged for money laundry and fraud .

So will he go to jail soon?

 

[camberiu]

So will he go to jail soon?

He hasn't been on trial yet, so unlikely, unless if he tries to escape, or intimidate witnesses, tamper evidence or interfere with the trial.