Impeachment

[jblawton]

This is an utter falsehood, in total contradiction of the historical record. Coups that are accepted by the majority do not need mass disappearances and states of siege as did Videla, Pinochet, Ríos Montt et al. Certainly there is always an element of the monied interests that welcome a coup d'état, as was the case in Czechoslovakia, Iraq, Poland, El Salvador and Argentina, and just about anywhere else., but they are the MINORITY, and that is why the perpetrators needed violence to enforce their rule. You will always have somebody welcoming a non-popular conqueror, as has happened every time in every invasion or coup in history. This does not make them popular governments. Your statement has no relation to any case in history.

Kudos to your comment. Money and opportunity always play a role in the perceived support of a regime.

Every government, good or bad, left or right, military or pacifist, has supporters and detractors. And history has shown every government also has the ability to lose these supporters quite quickly. Violence does not regain popular support, it just makes this support unnecessary and irrelevant, inducing in the population a sense of sheer impotence. When things go wrong, any change is welcome (just as any treatment feels good when you're sick). People do not welcome violence, they welcome change when they feel they need it. When the remedy is proven to be worse than the disease, well, then they just stop drinking the kool-aid.

 

[pabloa]

Richard Nixon made a big felony.
In Argentina the president did nothing. All you have is a fat man that cannot care of himself trying to care of all of us.

We all know or remember how Richard M Nixon was impeached in the good old USA for a minor crime.
I would like to ask the forum members what would happen in their respective countries (USA, UK, Australia, France,etc) if they had discovered similar cases of the crimes denounced here in Argentina. ¿Do you think that those officers would have been deposed?¿even jailed?
Pls comment

 

[pabloa]

I agree with you.
Macri is under federal prosecution for "copying" Nixxon.

Yes Macri made a felony. He is in the Justice right now. There are not so much people knowing this because he had media protection.

 

[Bajo_cero2]

In the UK it's known as a vote of no confidence.
Does that exist here?

Yes, juicio politico.