Brazil: Region’s unions denounce efforts to impeach Rousseff
Brazil: Region’s unions denounce efforts to impeach Rousseff
Apr Saturday 9th 2016
posted by Morning Star in World
LATIN AMERICAN unions have condemned attempts at a “legal and media coup” against Brazil’s left-wing government.
The UNI global executive committee said efforts to impeach President Dilma Rousseff were “a clear sign that democracy, working-class rights and Brazil’s sovereignty” were at risk.
The unions meeting in Uruguay’s capital Montevideo on Thursday said the opposition’s push for regime change would only worsen Brazil’s “political and institutional crisis.”
The meeting gave full support to Ms Rousseff and her predecessor Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
In Brazil, the parliamentary ethics committee heard evidence in the corruption probe into Speaker Eduardo Cunha, who has led the charge against the president, over a bribery scandal at state oil firm Petrobras.
Black market currency trader Leonardo Meirelles testified that he had converted $5.1 million (£3.6m) into Brazilian reals for his partner Alberto Youssef, who told him it was for Mr Cunha.
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Brazil's workers say, "Stay Dilma, there will be no coup!
by: Lucivania Nascimento dos Santos
April 8 2016
ITABUNA, Brazil -- Last week over one million Brazilians took to the streets across the country to protest a pending right-wing coup against the government of President Dilma Rousseff. In Brasilia, the nation's capital, some 150,000 people said "no" to the coup, shouting, "Stay Dilma!"
In the recent period, President Rousseff's government has come under sharp attack from ruling class forces opposed to the government's reforms. During her first term the Workers Party (PT), supported by both the Communist Party of Brazil (PCdoB) and center parties, lifted millions of Brazilians out of poverty through the federal government's Bolsa Familia program initiated by former president Lula.
Millions of low-income Brazilians received housing through social programs like "My House, My Life" implemented by the Workers Party-led government.
In addition, the "More Doctors" program, aided by Cuba and other nations, has provided health care to populations in the most remote locations of the country. The program has been a huge success and has achieved the ideal target number of doctors per thousand inhabitants.
Earlier, during the Lula administration (2003-2010), the government implemented an education quota policy, (Brazil's version of affirmative action) and thousands of black students enrolled in public universities, where once seats were occupied predominantly by white middle class and rich students.
To put it mildly these social policies displeased the elite and reactionary middle class.
More:
http://peoplesworld.org/brazil-s-workers-say-stay-dilma-there-will-be-no-coup/