The fraud being perpetrated in Brazil, writes Greenwald, "is as blatant as it is devastating." (Photo: Eraldo Peres/AP)
To See the Real Story in Brazil, Look at Who is Being Installed as President -- and Finance Chiefs
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It's not easy for outsiders to sort through all the competing claims about Brazil's political crisis and the ongoing effort to oust its president, Dilma Rousseff, who won re-election a mere 18 months ago with 54 million votes. But the most important means for understanding the truly anti-democratic nature of what's taking place is to look at the person whom Brazilian oligarchs and their media organs are trying to install as president: the corruption-tainted, deeply unpopular, oligarch-serving Vice President Michel Temer (above). Doing so shines a bright light on what's really going on, and why the world should be deeply disturbed.
The New York Times' Brazil bureau chief Simon Romero interviewed Temer this week, and this is how his excellent article begins:
RIO DE JANEIRO -- One recent poll found that only 2 percent of Brazilians would vote for him. He is under scrutiny over testimony linking him to a colossal graft scandal. And a high court justice ruled that Congress should consider impeachment proceedings against him.
Michel Temer, Brazil's vice president, is preparing to take the helm of Brazil next month if the Senate decides to put President Dilma Rousseff on trial.
How can anyone rational believe that anti-corruption anger is driving the elite effort to remove Dilma when they are now installing someone as president who is accused of corruption far more serious than she is? It's an obvious farce. But there's something even worse.
The person who is third in line to the presidency, right behind Temer, has been exposed as shamelessly corrupt: the evangelical zealot and House speaker Eduardo Cunha (right). He's the one who spearheaded the impeachment proceedings even though he got caught last year squirrelling away millions of dollars in bribes in Swiss Bank accounts, after having lied to Congress when falsely denying that he had any accounts in foreign banks.
Read the full article at The Intercept.
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It's not easy for outsiders to sort through all the competing claims about Brazil's political crisis and the ongoing effort to oust its president, Dilma Rousseff, who won re-election a mere 18 months ago with 54 million votes. But the most important means for understanding the truly anti-democratic nature of what's taking place is to look at the person whom Brazilian oligarchs and their media organs are trying to install as president: the corruption-tainted, deeply unpopular, oligarch-serving Vice President Michel Temer (above). Doing so shines a bright light on what's really going on, and why the world should be deeply disturbed.
The New York Times' Brazil bureau chief Simon Romero interviewed Temer this week, and this is how his excellent article begins:
RIO DE JANEIRO -- One recent poll found that only 2 percent of Brazilians would vote for him. He is under scrutiny over testimony linking him to a colossal graft scandal. And a high court justice ruled that Congress should consider impeachment proceedings against him.
Michel Temer, Brazil's vice president, is preparing to take the helm of Brazil next month if the Senate decides to put President Dilma Rousseff on trial.
How can anyone rational believe that anti-corruption anger is driving the elite effort to remove Dilma when they are now installing someone as president who is accused of corruption far more serious than she is? It's an obvious farce. But there's something even worse.
The person who is third in line to the presidency, right behind Temer, has been exposed as shamelessly corrupt: the evangelical zealot and House speaker Eduardo Cunha (right). He's the one who spearheaded the impeachment proceedings even though he got caught last year squirrelling away millions of dollars in bribes in Swiss Bank accounts, after having lied to Congress when falsely denying that he had any accounts in foreign banks.
Read the full article at The Intercept.
(Para ler a versao desse artigo em Portugues, clique aqui.)
It's not easy for outsiders to sort through all the competing claims about Brazil's political crisis and the ongoing effort to oust its president, Dilma Rousseff, who won re-election a mere 18 months ago with 54 million votes. But the most important means for understanding the truly anti-democratic nature of what's taking place is to look at the person whom Brazilian oligarchs and their media organs are trying to install as president: the corruption-tainted, deeply unpopular, oligarch-serving Vice President Michel Temer (above). Doing so shines a bright light on what's really going on, and why the world should be deeply disturbed.
The New York Times' Brazil bureau chief Simon Romero interviewed Temer this week, and this is how his excellent article begins:
RIO DE JANEIRO -- One recent poll found that only 2 percent of Brazilians would vote for him. He is under scrutiny over testimony linking him to a colossal graft scandal. And a high court justice ruled that Congress should consider impeachment proceedings against him.
Michel Temer, Brazil's vice president, is preparing to take the helm of Brazil next month if the Senate decides to put President Dilma Rousseff on trial.
How can anyone rational believe that anti-corruption anger is driving the elite effort to remove Dilma when they are now installing someone as president who is accused of corruption far more serious than she is? It's an obvious farce. But there's something even worse.
The person who is third in line to the presidency, right behind Temer, has been exposed as shamelessly corrupt: the evangelical zealot and House speaker Eduardo Cunha (right). He's the one who spearheaded the impeachment proceedings even though he got caught last year squirrelling away millions of dollars in bribes in Swiss Bank accounts, after having lied to Congress when falsely denying that he had any accounts in foreign banks.
Read the full article at The Intercept.