Protester i Brasilien mot Dilma Rousseff

Brazilian protesters call for President Dilma Rousseff's impeachment
Tens of thousands of people have taken part in protests across Brazil calling for the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff.
Support for Ms Rousseff has fallen to single-digit figures in recent polls.
Many voters have accused her of failing to stamp out corruption and blame her for the economy's worst slump in 25 years.
Marchers took over Copacabana beach in Rio and also demonstrated outside congress in the capital Brasilia.

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Brazil today awoke to stunning news of secret, genuinely shocking conversations involving a key minister in Brazil’s newly installed government, which shine a bright light on the actual motives and participants driving the impeachment of the country’s democratically elected president, Dilma Rousseff. The transcripts were published by the country’s largest newspaper, Folha de São Paulo, and reveal secret conversations that took place in March, just weeks before the impeachment vote in the lower house was held. They show explicit plotting between the new planning minister (then-senator), Romero Jucá, and former oil executive Sergio Machado — both of whom are formal targets of the “Car Wash” corruption investigation — as they agree that removing Dilma is the only means for ending the corruption investigation. The conversations also include discussions of the important role played in Dilma’s removal by the most powerful national institutions, including — most importantly — Brazil’s military leaders.

The transcripts are filled with profoundly incriminating statements about the real goals of impeachment and who was behind it. The crux of this plot is what Jucá calls “a national pact” — involving all of Brazil’s most powerful institutions — to leave Michel Temer in place as president (notwithstanding his multiple corruption scandals) and to kill the corruption investigation once Dilma is removed. In the words of Folha, Jucá made clear that impeachment will “end the pressure from the media and other sectors to continue the Car Wash investigation.” Jucá is the leader of Temer’s PMDB party and one of the “interim president’s” three closest confidants.

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Dilma Rousseff avsätts efter omröstning i senaten

Brasiliens avstängda president Dilma Rousseff har formellt avsatts i en omröstning i landets senat.

61 av de 81 senatorerna röstade för att avsätta Rousseff, som redan var avstängd från sitt ämbete. 20 ledamöter röstade emot. Nu förlorar hon makten permanent.

Jubel bröt ut bland många av de senatorer som röstat för att avsätta Rousseff. Några började att sjunga Brasiliens nationalsång, medan andra viftade med landets flagga.

Kuppen i Brasilien – en guldgruva för kapitalet

Den 31 augusti 2016 genomfördes en omröstning i den brasilianska senaten som ledde till att den folkvalda presidenten Dilma Rouseff avsattes. Här skriver Gui Mallon, musiker, författare och konstnär med rötter i Brasilien, om krafterna som drivit fram och profiterar på kuppen.

Tiotusentals har protesterat dagligen mot regimen efter att kuppen genomfördes. Demonstrationerna växer för varje dag som går. Den 4 september manifesterade mer än 100000 bara i São Paulo stad. Polisen har slagit ner demonstrationerna våldsamt med gummikulor.

Riksrättsprocessen mot president Dilma Rousseff har förvandlat Brasilien till ett libretto för en surrealistisk opera buffa. Under processens första omgång i maj fanns det politiker i kongressen som motiverade sitt val med att de ville försvara traditionen, ”Gud och familjen”. Några veckor senare häktades vissa av dem för att de hade försnillat offentliga medel, som gått till älskarinnor, nära släktingar eller deras egna valkampanjer.