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August 31, 2016 By Fausta

Brazil: Breaking – DILMA IMPEACHED

AS EXPECTED, DILMA ROUSSEFF HAS BEEN IMPEACHED. The Brazilian Senate voted 61-20 in favor of permanently removing president Dilma Rousseff from office for breaking the country’s budget laws.

The news just broke on Brazilian media.

I’ll add English language links as they come up.

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Simón Romero in the NYT.

WSJ: Dilma Rousseff Ousted in Historic Brazil Impeachment Vote. Leftist leader’s removal puts Michel Temer in power through 2018 as nation’s deep political and economic problems persist

Brazil’s Senate voted 61-20 to convict Ms. Rousseff on charges that she used illegal bookkeeping maneuvers to hide a growing budget deficit, deemed an impeachable crime in a nation with a history of hyperinflation and fiscal mismanagement. Two-thirds of Brazil’s 81 senators, or 54 votes, were needed to remove Ms. Rousseff from power.

USA Today: Brazil’s Senate removes President Rousseff from office

Dilma Rousseff stripped of Brazil presidency as Senate votes to impeach her

She also faces a vote on whether she should be banned from public office for eight years.

Lawmakers voted after a five-day hearing in which half a dozen witnesses and more than 60 senators spoke, finishing at around 3.30am this morning.

Ricardo Lewandowski, president of the Supreme Court, was to ask senators to answer by electronic panel the question: “Did the accused, the President of the Republic, Dilma Vana Rousseff, commit the crimes of responsibility corresponding to borrowing from a financial institution controlled by the Union and the opening credits without authorisation from Congress, of which she is accused and should be condemned to the loss of her office, being therefore disqualified from the exercise of any public office for a period eight years?”

However he later agreed to a request to hold two separate votes on the impeachment and the ban.

According to Reuters, senators voted 42-36 to allow Rousseff to retain the right to hold public office.

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  1. Red Flowers says

    August 31, 2016 at 4:13 pm

    Alright!!!! Now get rid of Maduro! Hopefully when Castro dies his “legacy” will die with him. Enough populist communism and the suffering and death it eventually brings!

  2. Judith L says

    August 31, 2016 at 4:48 pm

    No tears for Dilma. I have no doubt she deserves her fate, and I hope she is barred from public office for as long as possible. But I am curious about why Dilma and why now. I’m making a wild guess that Brazil has had some seriously corrupt presidents in the not-too-distant past.

  3. Fausta says

    August 31, 2016 at 6:13 pm

    A lot of it has to do with the failed economy, & the failure of the World cup & olympics to deliver growth.

  4. Fausta says

    August 31, 2016 at 6:14 pm

    From your laptop to God’s ears, Red!

  5. Nilton says

    September 1, 2016 at 12:56 pm

    Judith, no one was worse than Lula and his incompetent pupil (a “lamp post”, as we say here) in terms of corruption. Not only big (enormous…) figures, but even worse, corruption destined to destroy democracy buying congressmen/women and judges and justices. Added to that, humongous amounts of incompetence e ideological fanaticism. You don’t have idea (Obama, by contrast, seem a moderate and sensible man). What a nightmare. And what a relief.
    They will try play the victim card and protest violently (as is their custom), but without the taxpayers money, they are gone for good…

  6. Nilton says

    September 1, 2016 at 12:58 pm

    Judith, no one was worse than Lula and his incompetent pupil (a “lamp post”, as we say here) in terms of corruption. Not only big (enormous…) figures in their embezzlement and crude thievery, but even worse, corruption destined to destroy democracy buying congressmen/women and judges and justices. Added to that, humongous amounts of incompetence e ideological fanaticism. You don’t have idea (Obama, by contrast, seem a moderate and sensible man). What a nightmare. And what a relief.
    They will try play the victim card and protest violently (as is their custom), but without the taxpayers money, they are gone for good…

  7. Nilton says

    September 1, 2016 at 1:01 pm

    Judith, no one was worse than Lula and his incompetent pupil (a “lamp post”, as we say here) in terms of corruption. Not only big (enormous…) figures in their embezzlement and crude thievery, but even worse, corruption destined to destroy democracy buying congressmen/women and judges and justices. Added to that, humongous amounts of incompetence e ideological fanaticism. You don’t have idea (Obama, by contrast, seem a month derate and sensible man). What a nightmare. And what a relief.
    They will try play the victim card and protest violently (as is their custom), but without the taxpayers money, they are gone for good…

  8. Nilton says

    September 1, 2016 at 1:05 pm

    So sorry, the comment is repeated.

  9. Rick Lee says

    September 1, 2016 at 9:14 pm

    The leftists in LATAM eventually learned how to take over countries using democracy instead of violent subversion, thereby avoiding US intervention. As soon as they gain power, they begin systematically to dismantle democracy so they can plunder and stay in power forever. It took the Russians over 70 years to figure out what utter crap communism is and the Venezuelans have learned much faster. Unfortunately, Maduro is more like Pol Pot than Gorbachev and quickly getting worse as the Bolivarian revolution is more and more exposed as a tired, retreaded fantasy built on high oil prices, revolutionary doubletalk, and fear of the wicked gringos/capitalists/bourgeoisie/escualidos/conquistadores hiding everywhere. Obama and his people are of the same mindset as the Chavistas, just much less successful.

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