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Brazil wants Dilma and Lula behind bars
Brasilia, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo saw the largest protests in the country. Thousands of people protested Sunday against Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff and the Workers Party (PT) in at least nine states and the capital, Brasilia, in events organized by groups advocating the removal or resignation of the president and/or a military intervention. They were numerous posters and banners with the slogan “Get out Dilma” and “Get ...Read full article...
Brazil warming up for a new March against Rousseff
Millions of people are scheduled to protest President Dilma Rousseff all over the country today. Dilma’s popularity has fallen to a mere 8% amid the growing political and economic crisis. The demonstrations called for this Sunday will be the third since Rousseff started her second term to which she was re-elected in October 2014. In the seven and a half months since the start of her new term, support ...Read full article...
Venezuela’s Savage Scarcity
Although not recognized by the Maduro administration, Venezuela’s inflation rate reached almost 100% in the first quarter of 2015. In Venezuela the government controls the body responsible for publishing real inflation data. That is why it is impossible to know the official inflation rate in the country. However, it is estimated that in early 2015, Venezuelans already had a 90% inflation rate on basic food items. In a statement ...Read full article...
Support for Dilma Rousseff plunges to historical low
Despite low support for her government Rousseff remains defiant: “I am strong and can stand attacks and injustices”. The president of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff, is one step closer to the precipice. The political crisis that threatens her government is advancing rapidly since taking office for a second time in January and now, besides maneuvering strategies to neutralize her political enemies that are challenging her mandate, she has to face ...Read full article...
Brazilian Political Corruption rooted at the Core
The fraudulent house of cards is being shaken with scandal after scandal. While Luíz Inácio ‘Lula’ da Silva stealthly rents out private jets to travel to Italy, his co-horts are captured and imprisoned for money laundering, bribery and other forms of corruption. Last week we reported how the Brazilian Federal Police had arrested former minister José Dirceu. He was one of the most influential men in the government of ...Read full article...
Brazilian Police murder with impunity
The films ‘City of God’ and ‘Elite Squad’ were neither an exaggeration nor a romantic way to show how violence governs over Rio de Janeiro. Amnesty International has revealed that almost 16% of all homicides in Rio de Janeiro in the last five years were carried out by agents of the Military Police of the city who were on duty. In total 1,519 deaths were attributed to men in ...Read full article...
José Dirceu re-arrested in connection with Petrobras scandal
Dirceu is suspected of having benefited from money diversion scandal at Petrobras The Brazilian Federal Police arrested former minister José Dirceu on Monday. Dirceu was one of the most influential men in the government of former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva who had been convicted of corruption back in 2005, for his alleged involvement in irregularities in Petrobras. Dirceu was sentenced to ten years and eleven months in ...Read full article...
Brazilian Corruption has Metastasized all over
Even former president Lula da Silva will be investigated for peddling influence in favor of the construction company Odebrecht. PORTO ALEGRE – Corruption in the government of Brazil is endemic, it is like a cancer that has metastasized all over the public and private sectors. This analysis is not our opinion, but that of Brazilian prosecutor Athayde Ribeiro Costa, one of the leaders of the anti-corruption operation known as ...Read full article...
Former President Collor de Mello, investigated in Petrobras Corruption Scandal
Operation ‘Lava Jato’, the corruption scheme that laundered billions of dollars to and from Brazilian government officials, which has taken more than a year to investigate, now aims all focus to the political sphere of the country. The operation has already returned $182 million to public coffers and resulted in the arrest of a dozen large construction executives, many of which agreed to cooperate in order to be released ...Read full article...
Dilma remains defiant despite corruption scandals
The Brazilian political landscape is a reflection of its society, and its society a reflection of its politics. One of the worst errors that a politician can do is fill herself with hubris and bravada when facing Strong opposition, yet, that is exactly what most politicians do. With some polls giving Dilma Rousseff an approval that is as low as 9%, – equal to what Americans give the US Congress ...Read full article...
Ecuador undergoing soft Coup – says Correa
The president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, is facing the fourth week of protests in Ecuador. Citizen marches have been convened since the start of June as a way to show people’s rejection of bills that promote inheritance taxes and extraordinary Money confiscation measures from the sale of properties. Protesters have joined opposition politicians such as Jaime Nebot, mayor of Guayaquil, and former presidential candidate Guillermo Lasso. Given the growing ...Read full article...
Dilma Rousseff bows down to Obama in Washington
Brazil may be the next BRIC to unofficialy adopt Transpacific Partnership policies. When President Dilma Rousseff was asked Tuesday in Washington on intelligence that the US National Security Agency conducted in 2013 on her personal phone, she answered that from now on, “if President Barack Obama wants to know something about Brazil, he can call me directly.” Her answer caused the US President to smile. Relations between leaders of ...Read full article...
Don’t look for Freedom of Expression in Ecuador
Two years ago Ecuador declared the end of Free Speech after passing a new law called the Communications Act, which allows the government to establish what information is allowed in the media and this information can be published. SInce the passing of the law, the Superintendency of Communication, the official agency that oversees alleged media violations has sanctioned 198 media outlets. This agency has also passed 506 reslutions and take on 313 ...Read full article...
Evo Morales authorizes drilling for oil in protected lands
Morales lashed out at what he called the American Empire’s desire to have “untouchable, intangible” territories in the third world to make up for their own crimes against the environment. The need to discover new oil reserves has been the camouflage for the Bolivian Government to allow oil exploration in protected areas. Despite the fact that such areas have been reserved for environmental conservation, the Evo Morales administration decided ...Read full article...
Lula, Dilma and Brazil sink deeper into the hole
WIth no clear leadership, no public confidence on the country’s institutions or its leaders, Brazil seems to be getting deeper and deeper into a political and economic hole. However, in the middle of all the mud, there is still the ocassional joke to lighten up the mood. The last one was that Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is now considering a new presidential run in 2018. Sadly for Lula, ...Read full article...
