what's happening down there? the corrupt president appointed the equally as corrupt former president to a cabinet position. the appointment was blocked by a court, overturned in a higher court, and now many other judges have chimed in and given differing opinions. furthermore, there's also impeachment talk surrounding current president rousseff. does that about sum it up? anyone have more info?
Glen Greenwald has much to say about it. Essentially all the parties have a lot of corruption including the Worker's Party of Rouseff are corrupt. The right wing parties may be a bit more corrupt. Interengly Dilma Rousef who the corrupt oligarchs are trying to impeach is not corrupt. The traditional right wing oligarchs and their parties are trying to use disgust at corruption and the economic woes caused by declining oil and commodity prices to overthrow the Worker's Party which they have not been able to defeat in four straight election campaigns. Sounds like the situation in much of Latin America including Venezuela. http://www.alternet.org/world/glenn-greenwald-what-happening-brazil-much-worse-donald-trump A clear interview by Greenwald who lives in Brazil. http://www.democracynow.org/2016/3/24/glenn_greenwald_brazils_democracy_is_under
I always found it ironic that the two words on Brasil's flag are Order and Progress. They've rarely, if ever, had the former and only at times have shown flashes of the latter. Pervading racism since the founding of the country, one of the highest inequalities between rich and poor on the planet, one or two companies controlling all media outlets, and corruption that even on South American levels is alarmingly high and commonplace, the country always seems to be on the brink of collapse. Changing parties or candidates is not going to change the problems that they have. In fact it would be a miracle if they were to fix just one of the issues I wrote about above and if they do, it better be corruption first.
[rQUOTEr]Brazil's biggest party quits ruling coalition, Rousseff isolated Brazil's largest party announced on Tuesday it was leaving President Dilma Rousseff's governing coalition and pulling its members from her government, a departure that sharply raises the odds she could be impeached in a matter of months.[/rQUOTEr]
Dilma who was tortured as a youth in prison by the right wing dictator who was supported by our right wingers like Hillary's claimed mentor Kissinger, has said she will never resign, but maybe they can remove her by a successful impeachment and defeat hersince her party just won its fourth term in a row in 2014 for I believe a 4 yr term.
That's more or less it, save one key detail, which is that the main opposition party is also monumentally, outrageously corrupt, also under investigation/indictment, and are the architects of the corrupt system that Dilma is accused of exploiting.
