Rousseff impeachment efforts a bid to stop oil corruption probe
… leaked tapes [VIDEO, 5.45 min] – Published on RT, May 23, 2016.
Secret phone recordings between Brazil’s planning minister and the former president of Transperto have revealed that the minister suggested a “change” in the government to “stop the bleeding” caused by an investigation into Petrobras.
The March conversation between Planning Minister Romero Juca and former Transperto President Sergio Machado took place just weeks before impeachment proceedings were launched against Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, newspaper Folha de Sao Paulo reported … //
… She told RT that the impeachment situation is a coup attempt by the old Brazilian oligarchy.
“This coup is not like usual coups in Latin America, which normally involve weapons, tanks in the streets, arrests and torture. The current coup is happening within the democratic framework, with the use of existing institutions in support of indirect elections not stipulated in the Constitution. This coup is carried out by hands tearing apart the Brazilian Constitution,” Rousseff said.
“If there is no crime, an impeachment is illegal. And since it’s illegal, it’s a serious problem for the interim government. I’m living proof of this unlawfulness and injustice,” she added.
Meanwhile, Operation Lava Jato continues, with federal authorities investigating corruption allegations at Petrobras, where it is alleged that executives accepted bribes in return for awarding contracts to construction firms at inflated prices. The operation, launched in March 2014, has resulted in more than 100 warrants for search and seizure, temporary and preventive detention, and coercive measures.
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related: Em diálogos gravados, Jucá fala em pacto para deter avanço da Lava Jato, on Folha sw S.Paolo, 24 de Maio de 2016;
Links:
Stop treating Puerto Rico like a colony: Sanders calls for rejection of Clinton-backed debt bill, on RT, May 23, 2016;
Debate: Do Elections Change Anything? 46.50 min, uploaded by corbettreport, May 23, 2016 … Website: The Corbett Report;
Warum Trump Schwein hat – Kleberklärt, 2.06 min, ploaded by ZDF, May 22, 2016 … ie Republikaner können Donald Trump nicht mehr stoppen. Und ist er als Präsident wirklich so unvorstellbar? Trump hat Schwein: Hillary können fast so viele Wähler nicht leiden wie ihn – (my comment: Trump and Hillary are both out of the same power-matrix: Hillary of the officially new one – Trump shows the values of the hidden, old, spiritually primitive US power-elite – Heidi);
Newest Crop Circles 2016, 2.35 min, uploaded by rautavelha, March 12, 2016 … the patterns of the formations themselves have been studied endlessly. Aside from being supremely beautiful, many seem to be messages in one form or another, often with cosmological implications; crop-circles on Google Web-search;
How Big Oil Conquered the World, 71.26 min, uploaded by corbettreport, Dec 27, 2015 … Website: The Corbett Report; /Audio/Interviews; /Audio/the Well-Read Anarchist;
German Satire (engl sub): on ISIS – and the American Interventions in the Middle East (excerpt), 7.22 min, uploaded by lytron87, Nov 2, 2014 … from the German political satire show Die Anstalt (the mad house), originally aired on ZDF on Sep 23, 2014.