Please, no! The good people of the favela don´t deserve it. And it could be dangerous. A lot of corrupt politicians from all over the world gathered together in a place forgoten by God and the State. Man they could create a new criminal gang to terrorize us.
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Yes. And a lof of people are very, very affraid of his words.
Who could have predicted such a devious plot?
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Or that awful movie… 2012…
Even some members of the party of the former president are supporting this law… Brazil isn´t a land for amateurs…
a group of business-friendly right-wing politicians…
…somehow became “neoliberals?” Does that word actually mean anything any more? Or is it like the evil brother of “artisanal,” “curated,” and “hack?”
Neoliberal originally referred to a revival of late 19th-C laissez-faire capitalism. Gladstonian liberalism.
It only got mixed up with the American use of “liberal” to mean “socially pluralistic” because the USA’s supposedly-liberal party enthusiastically jumped on board the deregulation train.
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Angusm that is very very unlikely. He is in the top 10 richest people in Brazil (ninth or tenth place). His arrest was really really unexpected. He has been behind bars for the last year and a half. He is expected to remain there for at least three years if he complies with his plea bargain. He will probably NOT befall any strange accident.
Glenn Greenwald has a gross bias when it comes to reporting about Brazil. There was no such thing as a coup this year. The impeachment procedure is in the Brazilian constitution and was followed to the letter*. Please stop reporting that there was a coup in Brazil. At least use “alleged coup”. The current government (that you call neoliberal politicians) was elected together with the previous government (Temer was Dilma’s vice president!!!).
I am part of the Brazilian population who supports decisive measures against corruption. We supported the impeachment against Dilma and we also support strict punishment for the current government corrupt practices as well! Six ministers have already fallen and if Temer falls as well, so be it.
’ * Well almost: in the last day of the impeachment, the chief justice, while presiding the senate, didn’t follow the constitution and did not levy the correct penalty for the impeached president.
Look, while I agree that Greenwald is biased the historical consensus will call the impeachment a state coup. Right wingers don’t get to define what it will be called any more than that ridiculous try by the military dictatorship to rewrite history and call the 64 coup a democratic revolution.
Dilma wasn’t ejected by corruption but by a combination of economical failure and political opposition greed. And only TWO DAYS after she was impeached they made the “crime” for which she was impeached totally legal so Temer couldn’t be accused of the same crime.
Yes, I think that Dilma has a lot of explaining to do about how could she possibly be unaware of all the corruption deals happening under her nose - and after all those years fighting against evil corrupt politicians just to end being just like them is something that Lula adorers will have to cope with.
But PSDB and PMDB (former dictatorship era MDB) are a very old and very powerfully encroached force in the most lucrative aspects of our society (the money in civil construction alone is astronomical) with families that are succeeding each other in power since the start of the Republic.
You say you want the end of corruption but most people that think like you believe that the Worker’s Party is the end all and be all of all evils. They are the “enemy”, the anti-Christ, the destroyers of society as we know it. Corruption is ambidextrous.
I say we as a society should have a long and proper political reformation to guarantee that we elect better politicians, with better controls against corruption. With the current state of affairs it will be almost impossible (over half the people who voted for the impeachment were involved in corruption themselves). This last wave of big fish getting arrested gives me almost hope for the future, but I’m cautiously waiting to see if they keep in jail.
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A good old-fashioned swamp draining!
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And also most likely at home in Moscow, not Brazil.
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