Brazil

[Sandydragon]

So the impeachment trial is t go ahead after the Senate agreed that Rousseff should face an impeachment trial, which will start almost immediately after the end of the Olympics. With significant support for the trial on display, it looks like the impeachment trial is likely to be successful.

From everything I have read, it looks like most politicians are up to their necks in corruption, but Rousseff's opponents moved first.

[rowan]

According to Wikileaks, Temer was an informant to the US embassy, while Aloysio Nunes, who led Rousseff’s impeachment, went to Washington directly afterward to meet with US officials...

[cashead]

I think it might have more to do with Carwash than that, tbh.

[rowan]

Many others who led Rousseff's impeachment were embroiled in scandals themselves. House speaker Eduardo Cunha was caught last year with millions of dollars in bribes in secret Swiss bank accounts, after having falsely denied to Congress that he had any foreign bank accounts. Cunha also appears in the Panama Papers on tax fraud.

Right wing congressman Jair Bolsonaro said he was casting his vote to impeach Rousseff in honour of 'the military men of ’64' who led the coup and set up the brutal military dictatorship - which tortured Rousseff herself, among countless others.

[rowan]

So the coup has become official:

Brazil's Senate ousted President Dilma Rousseff on Wednesday, ending an impeachment process that polarized Latin America's biggest country amid a massive corruption scandal and brutal economic crisis.

Senators voted 61-20 to convict the country's first female president for illegally using money from state banks to bankroll public spending, marking the end of 13 years of leftist Workers Party rule.

Rousseff's opponents hailed her removal as paving the way for a change of fortunes for Brazil. Her conservative successor, Michel Temer, the former vice president who has run Brazil since her suspension in May, inherits a bitterly divided nation with voters in no mood for the austerity measures needed to heal public finances.

In his first televised address to the nation after being sworn in as president through 2018, Temer called on Brazilians to unite behind him in working to rescue the economy from a fiscal crisis and over 11 percent unemployment.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-brazi ... SKCN114071

[kk67]

While I was watching the Limpics I got the distinct impression that the Brazilian army are a bit........sloppy. Their marching was very poor.

[rowan]

& meanwhile Brazil and the United States are already celebrating a return to good relations

[rowan]

President Temer has been cited 44 times in a corruption probe, including accusations of illegal campaign financing:

http://www.chron.com/news/crime/article ... 787773.php

[rowan]