EXCLUSIVE: Brazil, the World’s Second-Largest Black Nation, Has Been Taken Over by an All White Male

[Judi Lynn]

EXCLUSIVE: Brazil, the World’s Second-Largest Black Nation, Has Been Taken Over by an All White Male Cabinet — Here’s What’s at Stake for Its Afro-Descendants

May 22, 2016 | Posted by David Love

Brazil has the fifth-largest population and the sixth-largest economy in the world. And if the nation’s new government of all white men has its way, Black power will be erased. Brazil’s majority African-descended population will be shut out of the process, losing the socioeconomic and political gains they have made in recent years.

Aside from Nigeria, no other country has as many Black people as Brazil. And yet, one would not know this solely by looking at the recently installed cabinet. Although this is a story unto itself, it is only the beginning of the story.

When Brazil’s Senate voted to impeach leftist President Dilma Rousseff of the Worker’s Party — who was imprisoned and tortured in 1970 under the nation’s former military regime — it used charges of corruption as a pretext, a smokescreen for what has been called a coup d’etat, observers say. Rousseff is accused of manipulating the government’s financial accounts and hiding a budget deficit for political gain, as the BBC reported.

Meanwhile, Vice President Michel Temer — who is of Lebanese descent and served as a U.S. diplomatic informant, according to Wikileaks — has replaced Rousseff and appointed a cabinet of 22 white men. Temer and six of his new ministers also face corruption charges in connection with a scandal at Petrobas, the state-owned oil company, according to The Guardian.

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[pmorlan1]

1. I'm so sick of this shit

Over and over and over we see the Kissinger blueprint being used for creating a coup climate so that the conservatives and neo-liberal businesses can take over. I fear for what comes next.

He argued that what is taking place in Brazil today is a continuation of what occurred decades earlier.

“In the 1960s, Brazil embarked on a progressive direction, and the progressive direction was undermined by a coup in 1964. Very reactionary forces took over, and there was a high level at repression,” Fletcher said. “And the U.S., in collaboration with reactionary forces in Brazil, moved the coup. So the fight since then has been to expand and restore democracy, which led to the Worker’s Rights Party. The victory of Lula as president was the result of a coalition — that coalition which also extended with Rousseff. What we’ve been seeing ever since democracy has been restored is reactionary forces chomping at the bit,” he added.

Brazilian social justice movements agree with Fletcher. In a statement, the Landless Workers Movement condemned the impeachment of Rousseff and installment of Temer as a “social backlash” that “intends to apply a recessive and neo-liberal program” that was rejected by most voters at the polls.

“This is an institutional and anti-democratic coup that disrespected the will of 54 million voters and was orchestrated by the most conservative sectors of society, particularly the neo-liberal business, subservient to the interests of U.S. companies. A coup supported by a permanent campaign of mass media…and by a selective action of the sectors of the judiciary,” the group said. “Unable to live with democracy and submit to the popular will, the elites withdrawn the President without any evidence of crime, just so their project of social cuts, unemployment and privatization is taken into place.”

[Judi Lynn]

2. Haiti, Venezuela, Honduras, Paraguay, Brazil, and probably Argentina, through vote fraud.

(Remember the computer freak used by Uribe's candidate in Colombia, and got caught, also said that he had been used by Argentina's Macri, as well.)

Each time, it appears they know people are "on" to them, but it's no big deal, as long as they can't be stopped.

Looking creepier, and creepier. You're right, it IS shit. Grotesque. I think they believe they can get by with almost everything, since they are all ready to sell out all 99% of the people in their countries to US political, military, and corporate interests. Traitors is exactly the word.

Democracy has nothing to do with what they're building.

[pmorlan1]

3. No, democracy has nothing to do with it

Money & Power - Power & Money & cheap labor.

[AgingAmerican]

6. This has been happening for a long, long time

It's pretty sad how poor those countries are. Many would be first world, without economic colonialism continuously bleeding their economies.

[Judi Lynn]

7. Isn't that the truth? n/t

[Hydra]

4. They aren't even being subtle about it

Hopefully this is the last gasp of the fascists...but they are probably planning on all of this being the final crackdown of the little people.

[AgingAmerican]

8. And they wonder why Che and Castro are heros in Latin America

[Judi Lynn]

9. In time, they'll see they must have been crazy, as well as greedy, and evil.

They will never win, as they can't kill everyone, no matter how hard they try to make the militaries to subjugate or murder the men/women/children of the world.

[Downwinder]

5. Made in U.S.A.