Safe with 'Oligarchs and Imperialists' in US, Brazil's New President Admits
Coup Plot
Published on
Friday, September 23, 2016
by
Common Dreams
Safe with 'Oligarchs and Imperialists' in US, Brazil's New President Admits
Coup Plot
Ousted President Dilma Rousseff wouldn't enact austerity roadmap, so "a
process was established which culminated with me being installed as
president of the republic," Temer says
by
Andrea Germanos, staff writer
Newly-installed Brazilian President Michel Temer speaking this week. (Photo:
Agência Brasil Fotografias/flickr/cc)
Proponents of her ouster argued that former Brazilian President Dilma
Rousseff was targeted and ultimately booted from office for budgetary
wrongdoing or, ironically, corruption.
But fresh comments by new, unelected president Michel Temer himself back up
claims that her impeachment was politically motivated, specifically, that
Rousseff wouldn't enact the austerity-promoting, welfare-slashing economic
platform Temer unveiled from his party, the Brazilian Democratic Movement
Party (PMDB), in October when he was vice president.
The Intercept's Inacio Vieira reported on the comments Temer made Wednesday
speaking to investors in New York City at an event at the Americas Society
and Council of the Americas (AS/COA). Here is the key comment, as noted by
The Intercept:
And many months ago, while I was still vice president, we released a
document named 'A Bridge to the Future' because we knew it would be
impossible for the government to continue on that course. We suggested that
the government should adopt the theses presented in that document called 'A
Bridge to the Future.' But, as that did not work out, the plan wasn't
adopted and a process was established which culminated with me being
installed as president of the republic.
Watch:
Vieira concludes that the impeachment "was for an agenda of impunity,
profit, and power that would never be ratified democratically by the
Brazilian voting population at the ballot box, and was thus imposed on them
under the guise of upholding the law."
Public Radio International also reported this week: "A mere two days after
impeaching Rousseff, the same senators voted to legalize the very budget
tricks they accused her of playing."
In his speech Wednesday, Fox News Latino adds, "Temer made a pointed appeal
to United States investors that his country is open for business."
In separate reporting by The Intercept, Glenn Greenwald writes that "whats
as revealing as Temer's casual acknowledgement of coup-type motives is how
Brazil's large mediawhich united in favor of impeachmenthas completely
ignored his comments," thus "ignor[ing] the huge implications for what this
illuminates about Dilma's removal."
"Just contemplate that," Greenwald added, "the installed president of the
country admits to a room full of oligarchs and imperialists in New York that
he and his party impeached the elected president for ideological and policy
reasons, not because of the stated reasons, and the entire big Brazilian
press pretends that it never happened
According to British-Brazilian writer and athlete Juliano Fiori, "In
removing the elected president for ostensibly political reasons, the
impeachment of Dilma is a coup against democracy."
Temer was formally installed as president just hours after the August 31
impeachment of Rousseff, and has since faced protests. He will compete the
rest of what would have been her term, serving through the end of 2018.
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Safe with 'Oligarchs and Imperialists' in US, Brazil's New President Admits
Coup Plot
Published on
Friday, September 23, 2016
by
Common Dreams
Safe with 'Oligarchs and Imperialists' in US, Brazil's New President Admits
Coup Plot
Ousted President Dilma Rousseff wouldn't enact austerity roadmap, so "a
process was established which culminated with me being installed as
president of the republic," Temer says
by
Andrea Germanos, staff writer
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Newly-installed Brazilian President Michel Temer speaking this week.
(Photo: Agência Brasil Fotografias/flickr/cc)
Proponents of her ouster argued that former Brazilian President
Dilma Rousseff was targeted and ultimately booted from office for budgetary
wrongdoing or, ironically, corruption.
But fresh comments by new, unelected president Michel Temer himself
back up claims that her impeachment was politically motivated, specifically,
that Rousseff wouldn't enact the austerity-promoting, welfare-slashing
economic platform Temer unveiled from his party, the Brazilian Democratic
Movement Party (PMDB), in October when he was vice president.
The Intercept's Inacio Vieira reported on the comments Temer made
Wednesday speaking to investors in New York City at an event at the Americas
Society and Council of the Americas (AS/COA). Here is the key comment, as
noted by The Intercept:
And many months ago, while I was still vice president, we released a
document named 'A Bridge to the Future' because we knew it would be
impossible for the government to continue on that course. We suggested that
the government should adopt the theses presented in that document called 'A
Bridge to the Future.' But, as that did not work out, the plan wasn't
adopted and a process was established which culminated with me being
installed as president of the republic.
Watch:
Vieira concludes that the impeachment "was for an agenda of impunity,
profit, and power that would never be ratified democratically by the
Brazilian voting population at the ballot box, and was thus imposed on them
under the guise of upholding the law."
Public Radio International also reported this week: "A mere two days after
impeaching Rousseff, the same senators voted to legalize the very budget
tricks they accused her of playing."
In his speech Wednesday, Fox News Latino adds, "Temer made a pointed appeal
to United States investors that his country is open for business."
In separate reporting by The Intercept, Glenn Greenwald writes that "whats
as revealing as Temer's casual acknowledgement of coup-type motives is how
Brazil's large mediawhich united in favor of impeachmenthas completely
ignored his comments," thus "ignor[ing] the huge implications for what this
illuminates about Dilma's removal."
"Just contemplate that," Greenwald added, "the installed president of the
country admits to a room full of oligarchs and imperialists in New York that
he and his party impeached the elected president for ideological and policy
reasons, not because of the stated reasons, and the entire big Brazilian
press pretends that it never happened
According to British-Brazilian writer and athlete Juliano Fiori, "In
removing the elected president for ostensibly political reasons, the
impeachment of Dilma is a coup against democracy."
Temer was formally installed as president just hours after the August 31
impeachment of Rousseff, and has since faced protests. He will compete the
rest of what would have been her term, serving through the end of 2018.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0
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