A Globo irá mostrar essa vergonha?
A Oposição irá falar sobre essa vergonha?
E o povo? ...da Periferia, Trabalhador, pretos, pobres
De qual lado estarão?
E os professores, de qual lado estarão?
É bom não esquecer que a maioria dos professores(as)
são mulheres. E como tal sabem como é difícil para as mesmas
ocuparem e participarem dos "espaços" de poder.
O Silêncio, a indiferença, é escolher um lado,
o lado da GANG DE LADRÕES, DO GOLPE E DA INJUSTIÇAS!!!
Este não é o meu lado... ---- Geraldo Jr.
Dilma Rousseff Targeted in Brazil by Lawmakers Facing Scandals of Their Own
BRASÍLIA
— Paulo Maluf, a Brazilian congressman, is so badly besieged by his own
graft scandals that his constituents often describe him with the slogan
“Rouba mas faz.” Translation: He steals but gets it done.
But like an array of other scandal-plagued members of Brazil’s Congress, Mr. Maluf says he is so fed up with all the corruption in the country that he supports ousting President Dilma Rousseff.
“I’m
against all the dubious horse-trading this government does,” said Mr.
Maluf, 84, a former São Paulo mayor who faces charges in the United
States that he stole more than $11.6 million in a kickback scheme.
The drive to impeach Ms. Rousseff is gaining momentum.
A pivotal vote to send her case to the Senate for a possible trial is
expected over the weekend, and several of the political parties in her
governing coalition abandoned her this week, leaving her especially
vulnerable.
But
some of the most vocal lawmakers pushing to impeach Ms. Rousseff are
facing serious charges of graft, electoral fraud and human rights
abuses, uncorking a national debate about hypocrisy among Brazil’s
leaders.
“Dilma
may have dug her own grave by not delivering on what she promised, but
she is untainted in a political realm smeared with excrement from top to
bottom,” said Mario Sergio Conti, a columnist
for the newspaper Folha
de S. Paulo. “She didn’t steal, but a gang of thieves is judging her.”Pro-Impeachment Demonstration in Brazil
Protesters in Rio de Janeiro marched to show their support for impeaching President Dilma Rousseff.
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS on Publish Date April 15, 2016.
Photo by Reuters.
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Ms.
Rousseff is deeply resented in Brazil, having presided over the worst
economic crisis in decades, a huge corruption scandal engulfing the
national oil company and the fall of millions of middle-class Brazilians
into poverty.
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In
the impeachment case, she is not facing charges of graft. Instead, she
is accused of using money from giant public banks to cover budget gaps,
damaging Brazil’s economic credibility.
Ms.
Rousseff, then, is something of a rarity among Brazil’s major political
figures: She has not been accused of stealing for herself.
Eduardo
Cunha, the powerful speaker of the lower house who is leading the
impeachment effort, is going on trial at the country’s highest court,
the Supreme Federal Tribunal, on charges that he pocketed
as much as $40 million in bribes. Mr. Cunha, an evangelical Christian
radio commentator and economist who regularly issues Twitter messages
quoting from the Bible, is accused of laundering the gains through an
evangelical megachurch.
Vice
President Michel Temer, who is expected to take over if Ms. Rousseff is
forced to step aside, has been accused of involvement in an illegal
ethanol-purchasing scheme.
Renan
Calheiros, the Senate leader, who is also on the presidential
succession chain, is under investigation over claims that he received
bribes in the giant scandal surrounding the national oil company,
Petrobras. He has also been accused of tax evasion and of allowing a
lobbyist to pay child support for a daughter from an extramarital
affair.
Altogether, 60 percent of the 594 members of Brazil’s Congress face serious charges
like bribery, electoral fraud, illegal deforestation, kidnapping and
homicide, according to Transparency Brazil, a corruption-monitoring
group.
The
issue has even become a part of the president’s defense strategy. In
particular, Ms. Rousseff and her supporters have argued, how can the
impeachment process be directed by someone who is going on trial for
corruption himself?
On
Thursday, José Eduardo Cardozo, the solicitor general, said that his
office had appealed to the Supreme Federal Tribunal in an attempt to
block the impeachment proceedings.
He
said the effort to oust Ms. Rousseff had become so sprawling that it
was “a true Kafkaesque process in which the defendant cannot figure out
with any certainty what she is being accused of or why.”
In
a session that went past midnight and into the early hours of Friday, a
majority of justices on the high court rejected the Rousseff
administration’s request to annul this weekend’s impeachment vote.
No
one can dispute that Ms. Rousseff is very unpopular around the country,
as reflected in her nearly single-digit approval ratings, the broad ire
over bribery and kickbacks within her Workers’ Party, and the regular
street protests demanding her ouster.
Even
so, some Brazilians argue that the impeachment upheaval has less to do
with stamping out corruption than with an effort to shift power by
lawmakers with questionable records themselves.
Ms. Rousseff’s opponents in Congress include Éder Mauro, who is facing charges of torture and extortion from his previous stint as a police officer in Belém, a crime-weary city in the Amazon.
Another congressman aiming
to impeach Ms. Rousseff: Beto Mansur, who is charged with keeping 46
workers at his soybean farms in Goiás State in conditions so deplorable that investigators say the laborers were treated like modern-day slaves.
Almost
daily, prosecutors reveal accusations involving Ms. Rousseff’s allies
and adversaries in Congress, saying they pocketed bribes in the colossal
graft scheme surrounding government-controlled energy companies.
Graphic
photos even circulated this month of prostitutes operating in a wing of
Congress reserved for committee deliberations, reminding Brazilians of
the institution’s circuslike atmosphere these days.
Luis
Almagro, secretary general of the Organization of American States,
criticized the impeachment process, saying the accusations against Ms.
Rousseff “are not crimes, but they are related to poor administration.”
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Brazil Impeachment: The Process for Removing the President
Dilma Rousseff, Brazil’s president, is facing
impeachment. Here is a step-by-step explanation of how proceedings would
unfold.
He
said that the president’s missteps were “actions that other presidents
in the past took themselves,” but that Brazil’s politicians were
“judging her differently.”
Mr. Almagro also criticized the politicians who were pushing for impeachment but facing corruption accusations themselves.
“I am worried about the credibility of some of those who are going to judge or decide this impeachment process,” he said.
Mr.
Maluf, the former mayor who supports the president’s removal, spent
weeks in jail a decade ago on charges of money laundering and tax
evasion.
But
he was released under a law allowing people older than 70 to face such
accusations at home.
Then Mr. Maluf won a seat in Congress, giving him
the privileged judicial standing that keeps nearly all senior Brazilian
politicians with such privileges out of jail.
Despite
Mr. Maluf’s claims in recent days that he could travel outside Brazil
without being arrested, he remains wanted by Interpol for the case
against him in the United States, according to the United States Justice
Department. France also has an outstanding warrant for his arrest in a
separate case involving organized money laundering.
“My
public life was always the opposite of all that,” Mr. Maluf said last
week, criticizing the bad deeds in Ms. Rousseff’s government, including
her scramble to offer cabinet posts to legislators on the fence over
impeachment.
Scholars
note the sweeping legal protections enjoyed by about 700 senior
officials, including cabinet ministers and every member of Congress.
Only the Supreme Federal Tribunal can try them, producing years of
appeals and delays.
“Winning
election to Congress is a license to steal for certain figures,” said
Sylvio Costa, the founder of Congresso em Foco, a watchdog group that
tracks legislative corruption. “In this grotesque system, the biggest
thieves are those who wield the most power.”
Claims
of misdeeds among other lawmakers do not bother some of the politicians
wanting Ms. Rousseff impeached. Roberto Jefferson, a former legislator
who went to prison after his conviction for his role in a vote-buying
scheme, said that Mr. Cunha’s talent for political double-dealing served
as a strategic advantage.
“The
bandit I’m rooting for the most is Eduardo Cunha,” Mr. Jefferson said.
(Several lawmakers seeking to oust Ms. Rousseff, including Mr. Cunha,
either declined requests for comment or did not respond.)
One
prominent supporter of Ms. Rousseff is Fernando Collor de Mello, the
disgraced former president who resigned in 1992 over an
influence-peddling scandal. He resurrected his political career as a
senator, only to face charges now of taking bribes in the graft scheme
around the national oil company.
Mr.
Collor’s father, Arnon de Mello, set a precedent after fatally shooting
a fellow senator on the Senate floor in 1963. Arnon de Mello managed to
avoid prison after a court ruled that the episode was an accident —
because he was aiming at another senator.
As
tempers flare over impeachment, some cite the example of Ivo Cassol, a
senator from the Amazon. He was sentenced to more than four years in
prison in 2013 by the Supreme Federal Tribunal on corruption charges
related to contracts granted more than 15 years ago. (Mr. Cassol
considers himself innocent in the case, a spokesman said.)
Despite
the ruling, Mr. Cassol remains in the Senate, keeping the high court’s
decision at bay with appeals. He is now delivering some of the most impassioned speeches in favor of Ms. Rousseff’s impeachment, calling her government “disgraceful.”
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