The democratically elected president was impeached despite no allegations of personal corruption \u2014 by politicians who are knee-deep in bribery and kickback scandals.<\/p>\n
Rousseff has been accused of ‘pedalling’, the illegal delay of re-payments to state banks) to mask public debt.<\/p>\n
From\u00a0the start of the campaign to impeach Brazil\u2019s democratically elected President Dilma Rousseff, \u00a0The Associated Press reported: \u00a0\u201cIndependent auditors hired by Brazil\u2019s Senate said in a report released Monday that suspended President Dilma Rousseff didn\u2019t engage in the creative accounting she was charged with at her impeachment trial.\u201d In other words, the Senate\u2019s own objective experts gutted the primary claim as to why impeachment was something other than a coup.<\/p>\n
The report\u00a0did not fully exonerate\u00a0Dilma, finding that she did open lines of credit without congressional approval, part of the impeachment case. But it was the pedaladas <\/em>charge\u00a0that did creative accounting that dominated the impeachment debate.<\/p>\n The primary\u00a0pretext\u00a0used to impeach her has just been debunked by the Senate\u2019s own independent expert report. The corruption-plagued man they installed in her place \u2014 who currently has a 70 percent disapproval rating, and whom 60 percent of the country wants impeached \u2014 is now secretly meeting with the very judges whose supposed independence, credibility, and integrity were\u00a0the prime argument against calling this a \u201ccoup,\u201d all while he plots to save his bribery-enriched fellow party member. And while all this happens, they are blithely proceeding to impose an agenda of austerity and privatization\u00a0that is undemocratic.<\/p>\n Whatever the motives were for getting rid of Dilma, illegality and corruption plainly had nothing to do with it. Just look at this week\u2019s Senate report, or the face of the person they\u2019ve installed, to see how true that is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The democratically elected president was impeached despite no allegations of personal corruption \u2014 by politicians who are knee-deep in bribery and kickback scandals. Rousseff has been accused of ‘pedalling’, the illegal delay of re-payments to state banks) to mask public … Continue reading