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Judi Lynn's JournalMisinformation on Cuba, again
‘Havana syndrome’ and Trudeau-as-the-son-of-Fidel non-stories are only the latest erroneous claims promoted to discredit Cuba
John Kirk and Stephen Kimber / May 15, 2024 / 4 min read
Margaret Trudeau smiles as Cuban leader Fidel Castro holds her youngest son Michel after the Trudeaus arrived in Havana on January 26, 1976. Photo by Fred Chartrand/CP.
It appears as though Fox Nation, a subscription-based video service and companion to Fox News Channel, is soon to present a documentary on Canada-Cuba relations, emphasizing the close ties between the Trudeau family and Fidel Castro—and in particular the theory that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is the illegitimate son of the late Cuban leader.
This bizarre conspiracy theory has been refuted on several occasions. The physical impossibility—Margaret Trudeau did not meet Fidel Castro until Justin was five—seems to have been overlooked. Fox researchers supplied highly dubious “evidence” that Fidel might have impregnated Margaret Trudeau on a visit to the Caribbean when she is said to have visited Cuba.
And yes, while Justin Trudeau did provide an emotional tribute after the death of the Cuban leader in 2016, there is not a scintilla of proof that he is the son of Castro.
Sadly, Cuba is never far from conspiracy theorists. The issue of “Havana syndrome” and related “sonic attacks” (first noted in Cuba with a fanfare of negative publicity in 2016) was again recently resurrected—this time in a recent episode of CBS’s 60 Minutes. It offered highly contentious arguments to hint at Russian mischief afoot. A more balanced analysis, however, shows that the central argument is false.
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Why is it US and allied "news" media always made sure NOT to include Pierre Trudeau in these photos, anyway?
Why did they ignore the fact President Jimmy Carter and Pierre Trudeau both were asked to be pallbearers at Pierre Trudeau's funeral, anyway?
They served together at the funeral on October 3, 2000.
Odd, wasn't it, that the media chose not to mention it?
During that occasion, Fidel Castro invited Jimmy Carter to visit Cuba which Jimmy Carter responded by arriving with Rosalind
"Pull my finger"
Invited to throw out the first pitch.
US removes Cuba from list of countries not fully cooperating on counterterrorism efforts
BY CNN
MAY 15, 2024
(CNN) — The US State Department took Cuba off the list of countries that are not fully cooperating with the US on counterterrorism efforts, a State Department official said Wednesday.
Multiple factors contributed to Cuba’s change of status. The US and Cuba resumed law enforcement cooperation in 2023, including on counterterrorism, the official said. Cuba also no longer found itself refusing to engage with Colombia on extradition requests for National Liberation Army (ELN) members because Colombia’s attorney general announced that arrest warrants would be suspended.
As a result of these changes, “the Department determined that Cuba’s continued certification as a ‘not fully cooperating country’ was no longer appropriate,” the official said.
The State Department still includes North Korea, Iran, Syria and Venezuela on the list of countries that are not cooperating on counterterrorism efforts.
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https://whdh.com/news/us-removes-cuba-from-list-of-countries-not-fully-cooperating-on-counterterrorism-efforts/
Honduras: The state must guarantee truth, justice and reparation for the family of Berta Caceres
May 13, 2024
The convictions of those responsible for and complicit in the murder of Honduran human rights defender Berta Cáceres have yet to be confirmed. Amnesty International calls on the Honduran state to ensure that truth and independent and impartial justice for her family and loved ones is guaranteed without delay.
“Eight years after the murder of Berta Cáceres, her family continues to face an incomplete judicial process that unnecessarily perpetuates their anguish. It is imperative that the Honduran authorities take decisive action to end the cycle of impunity in this case.” These were the words of Astrid Valencia, Americas deputy director for research at Amnesty International.
Eight years after the murder of Berta Cáceres, her family continues to face an incomplete judicial process that unnecessarily perpetuates their anguish. It is imperative that the Honduran authorities take decisive action to end the cycle of impunity in this case.
Berta’s family and the Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH) continue to demand that the Honduran authorities hold all those involved in the crime to account, including those who planned and ordered the murder of Berta Cáceres.
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On 2 March 2016, environmental and indigenous rights defender Berta Cáceres was shot dead by armed men at her home in Intibucá, Honduras. She was the coordinator of the Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH) and was campaigning against the Agua Zarca hydroelectric dam project and its impact on the territory of the Lenca Indigenous people.
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https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2024/05/honduras-imperative-state-guarantee-truth-justice-reparation-family-berta-caceres/
Genocide Trial in Guatemala Brings Memories of Israel's Role in the Killings
Genocide Trial in Guatemala Brings Memories of Israel’s Role in the Killings
Along with the United States, Israel provided weapons and training to Guatemala’s military and their campaign against Indigenous Maya civilians from 1974-1996.
BY MARY JO MCCONAHAY MAY 10, 2024 10:46 AM
As the genocide trial of retired Guatemalan General Benedicto Lucas Garcia unfolds in a courtroom in Guatemala City, Indigenous Maya witnesses—some in strained voices or reduced to tears—describe the killing methods used by soldiers. A woman in a woven huipil blouse grabs her chest and inclines forward to show how her mother was shot point blank. A man who was fourteen when troops came upon his family cleaning their cornfield points to his forehead and a spot above his right ear where a soldier shot his father “in front of me.” Another woman closes her fingers like the head of an ax and brings it down on the crown of her head to show how a neighbor was killed.
As testimonies unroll, it is germane to point out that Benedicto Lucas Garcia did not commit mass murder by himself, but rather with help from the United States and Israel.
Retired General Benedicto Lucas Garcia, accused of genocide, signifies his presence during roll call by the president of the tribunal at the beginning of a trial session at the Tribunals Tower in Guatemala City, 2024. Lucas attends virtually from a nearby military medical center due to health issues, with one of his three attorneys at his side, while his image is projected on the wall behind the judges.
Lucas, now ninety-one, Armed Forces Chief of Staff for his brother, President General Fernando Romeo Lucas Garcia, was the architect of the counterinsurgency in a war from 1960 to 1996 in which 200,000 died or disappeared, 93 percent of them at the hands of the state according to a United Nations-sponsored Truth Commission report. Genocide trials are rare, partly because of the difficulty of proving that the accused intended to destroy a particular group as such. Lucas is charged with deliberately seeking to eliminate Indigenous Maya in the Ixil Triangle, located in the remote mountainous region of Quiche, among the hardest hit during the war.
From the time of the 1954 CIA-orchestrated coup against the progressive, democratically elected president, Jacobo Árbenz, Guatemala was led by military autocrats supported by the United States, or civilians answerable to the military. (Only in January, 2024 did another progressive, independent thinking president, Bernardo Arévalo, take office, although he continues to fight the old military guard and rightists in the business and legal sectors.) After the CIA coup, young officers rebelled in 1960 when the Guatemalan president at the time, a general, allowed Washington to train fighters for the Bay of Pigs invasion on a local plantation. Fidel Castro was a hero to many Latin Americans for throwing off the U.S. yoke; permitting the U.S. military to instruct the Cuban invaders inside Guatemala was an affront to national sovereignty.
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https://progressive.org/latest/genocide-trial-in-guatemala-brings-memories-of-israels-role-in-the-killings-mcconahay-20240507/
Pope marks 50th anniversary of murder of Argentine 'Martyr of the Poor' Carlos Mugica
Pope Francis commemorates the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Argentine priest Carlos Múgica upholding his legacy of serving the poor and marginalized.
By Francesca Merlo
On 11 May 1974, Argentine priest Carlos Múgica, known as the "Martyr of the Poor" was shot and killed after evening mass at the San Francisco Solano parish in the Villa Luro district of Buenos Aires.
He is remembered, in particular, for his dedication to the poor. Amongst those celebrating his life on the 50th anniversary of his death, is Pope Francis, who sent a letter to mark the occasion.
Pope Francis' words
Through his words, read out by the Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Jorge Ignacio García Cuerva, Pope Francis greeted all those who gathered to commemorate this anniversary during Mass at the conclusion of the "Múgica Week" on 12 May in Buenos Aires.
"As in every Church celebration - which is much more than a historical commemoration - there is an opportunity to renew the fraternal and committed presence among those who bear heavy crosses," said Pope Francis, encouraging everyone to "continue to put their hearts and bodies alongside those who suffer all kinds of poverty."
Pope Francis emphasised that Father Carlos' testimony "teaches us not to be dragged by ideological colonisation, nor by the culture of indifference."
"Let us ask the Lord that the principles of the Social Doctrine of the Church bear fruit in our communities and, through them, in all social life," he added.
The Holy Father also invited the faithful to "seek places of integration, discarding the disqualification of the other" and he called for "the rift to end, not with silence and complicity, but by looking into each other's eyes, acknowledging errors and eradicating exclusion."
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Fr. Carlos Mugica – The Fear of The Truth (1973
[Fr. Carlos Mugica (October 7, 1930 – May 11, 1974) was an Argentine “slum priest” and member of the Movement of Priests for the Third World (Movimiento de Sacerdotes para el Tercer Mundo), and praised by Pope Francis in an interview. While he was associated with the Peronist Left, Fr. Mugica took a staunchly non-violent stance. This position led, before his murder in 1974, to a growing distance between him and groups engaged in armed struggle, such as the Montoneros. While some claim he was murdered by the Montoneros, the more widely accepted position is that he was murdered by the Argentine Anticommunist Alliance (Alianza Anticomunista Argentina) death squad.]
[The following text is taken from the last chapter of Fr. Carlos Mugica’s 1973 book Cristianismo y Peronismo.]
Christians are called to give testimony to the truth, and to struggle with all our power against injustice, even if this brings, as a consequence, prison, torture, kidnapping, and eventually death. Faced with this difficult demand that has existed from the beginning of the life of the Church, the vigorous word of Christ constantly encourages us: “Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell” (Matthew 10:28). Let us fear this new Gehenna that is the consumer society; although it [consists] of the consumption of the few, and hunger for the many; this society [that] closes us, indifferent to the terrible violence that it contains. Let us fear this society which, while submerging the people in hunger and oppression, proposes to a select minority hedonism and eroticism as the key to happiness, forgetting once again Jesus Christ, who warns us: “Man shall not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God” [Matthew 10:28]. We live in an obvious state of institutionalized violence, which is only inconspicuous to some functionary with a proscriptive mentality, and insensible to the pain of the Argentine people.
Is it not institutionalized violence that the worker suffers, perhaps, when he barely collects 40.000 pesos per month, needing to pay for the price of milk, meat, or sugar? Is not the increasingly alarming rise in infant mortality, demonstrated by the latest official statistics, institutionalized violence? This increase is explicable, among other reasons, because many workers are incapable of paying essential medical bills for their children. If somebody doubts this claim, let them go down to one of the numerous Villas Miserias [shanty towns/slums in Argentina], hygienically baptized as Villas de Emergencia. They represent the subconscious of Buenos Aires. They are the most overwhelming expression of the institutionalized violence that the people suffer — to have awareness that there, in the city, there are more than one hundred thousand vacant apartments.
The Comisión Permanente del Episcopado Argentino, has pointed out already, this past year, the dramatic situation of the working class in Argentina; the increasing proletarianization of the middle class; [and] the capitulation of a large portion of men of the law, who turn a blind eye to the well-established accusations of torture and abuse that Argentinians suffer. Monseñor Zaspe, archbishop of Santa Fe, well-known for his calm prudence, in his recent pastoral letter, Conciencia política y Evangelio, characterized the solution that we live in this way: “The results of six years of the Argentine Revolution are completely negative” [Revolución Argentina was the name — given by the military leaders themselves — of the military dictatorship which lasted from June 1966 to 1973]. Referring to the governments that have succeeded each other, one after another, he characterizes as very serious events, the suspension of […] constitutional guarantees, the state of siege, the extension of repressive legislation and the death penalty. He continues: “However, no revolutionary transformation was made, only changes in management, implementation of infrastructure, the promotion of gambling, innumerable economic plans […], high cost of living, closure of jobs, inflation, foreign exchange and capital flight, rural exodus, and a shaky economic order.” The recent developments of Mendoza, San Juan, and Tucumán, further darken the outlook.
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https://terrenouvelle.home.blog/fr-carlos-mugica-the-fear-of-the-truth-1973/
The Secret History of Israel's Role in Genocide in Colombia
The Secret History of Israel’s Role in Genocide in Colombia
May 13, 2024
As a diplomatic row erupts between the former allies, Dan Cohen republishes his 2021 MintPress News exposé on the role of Israeli agents in training death squads and devising plans for genocide in Colombia.
Gustavo Petro at North-South Schism session at World Economic Forum in January 2024. (WEP/Flickr)
By Dan Cohen
Uncaptured Media
On Oct. 16 last year, Colombia demanded that Israel’s ambassador Gali Dagan depart the country. “At the very least, apologize and leave,” foreign minister Álvaro Leyva said. This came one day after Israel halted weapons exports to Colombia.
“If we have to suspend foreign relations with Israel we will suspend them. We don’t support genocides,” Columbian President Gustavo Petro tweeted.
The diplomatic row erupted in response to Petro’s scathing criticism of Israel’s ongoing ethnic cleansing of the Gaza Strip, in which he compared Israeli military to Nazis.
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I investigated Israel, Klein and Eitan’s role in the decades-long Colombian bloodbath for MintPress News in 2021, republished here.
By Dan Cohen
MintPress News
June 2, 2021
On April 6, 1984, a group of men dressed in police uniforms arrived at the home of Milcíades Contento in the town of Viotá, Colombia.
Contento was a peasant, communist and member of the Patriotic Union (UP), a newly-formed experimental political party born out of the 1985 peace negotiations between the conservative President Belansio Betancourt and the guerrillas of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC.
The men seized Contento, tied him up and dragged him away. The next day, his corpse was found in a nearby village. The murder of Milcíades Contento marked the beginning of a nearly two-decade extermination campaign.
From 1984-2002, at least 4,153 UP members – including two presidential candidates, 14 parliamentarians, 15 mayors, nine mayoral candidates, three members of the House of Representatives and three senators – were murdered or dissapeared, in what a Colombian court deemed was a “political genocide.”
According to data presented to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, the purge claimed more than 6,000 victims through murders, disappearances, torture, forced displacement and other human rights violations.
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Death Squad Leader: What I Learned in Israel
Klein held three training sessions, each for around 30 people. Assisting him were three trainers, all of whom were colonels in the Israeli army: Tzadaka Abraham, Teddy Melnik and Amatzia Shuali.
Klein trained brothers Carlos and Fidel Castaño, the squad leaders who would go on to form the notoriously violent United Self-Defense Forces, known in Spanish by its acronym, AUC.
Under the patronage of wealthy landowners, drug lords, ranchers, politicians and the Colombian military, the AUC committed bloodcurdling massacres all over the country, even using chainsaws to murder and dismember peasants, all aimed at terrorizing communities into fleeing from their land.
The United Nations estimated in 2016 that the AUC was responsible for 80 percent of the deaths in the conflict.
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https://consortiumnews.com/2024/05/13/the-secret-history-of-israels-role-in-genocide-in-colombia/
(Your time is never wasted researching what has been done with the well more than $11,000,000,000 the US Govt. has poured into Colombia's extremely corrupt feudal system to fight first "commies" and immediately after, "drug traffickers, " starting around 2000. )
(Colombia's war on the poor has been ongoing since the 1940's, when the first very popular beloved leftist anti-crime lawyer ran for the Presidency and was publicly executed, kicking off a 10 year period known as La Violencia. )
Haiti's notorious gang leader, Barbecue, says his forces are ready for a long fight
MAY 13, 20247:27 AM ET
Eyder Peralta
Jimmy Chérizier, a former elite police officer known as Barbecue, who now runs a Haitian gang federation.
Odelyn Joseph/AP
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The gangs in Haiti can't be ignored. This weekend they took the streets in their neighborhoods in a show of force. NPR saw dozens of heavily armed men, some wearing balaclavas in the blazing Caribbean heat, with handguns, with assault rifles with machetes.
And Jimmy Chérizier, known as Babekyou in Haitian Creole — or Barbecue — is one of the most powerful and notorious gang leaders. He heads the G9 federation of gangs.
He is the man who convinced many of Haiti's gangs to stop fighting each other and start fighting the government. The alliance of rival gangs is known as Viv Ansanm, or "Living Together."
Over the past two months, they've attacked government installations, brought down a prime minister and nearly paralyzed the capital city. Haitians have largely been left to fend for themselves.
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He claims the system made him who he is. As a policeman, he said, he learned that politicians created the gangs, that they used them and the police to do their dirty work, to target their business rivals and their enemies. And so he started fighting against the political elite to try to change the system.
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https://www.npr.org/2024/05/13/1250860448/haitis-notorious-gang-leader-barbecue-says-his-forces-are-ready-for-a-long-fight
Sperm Whale "Phonetic Alphabet" Surprisingly Similar In Structure To Human Language
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For the first time, scientists have described some of the basic elements of how they may be "talking" to each other.
Sometimes the whales take turns to communicate, or all "talk" at once with many overlapping clicks.
Image Credit: Amanda Cotton
Cetaceans have long been famous for their communication abilities. From the impressive clicks and whistles of dolphins to the magical sound of humpback whale song. Sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) have been known to communicate too, and new research has made a big leap forward in understanding the structure of their vocalizations.
Sperm whales are highly social, living in pods of around 15-20 animals. They communicate with one another through a series of clicks called codas. While it was previously known that some of these clicks told other whales which whale was "talking" and that different clans had different dialects, very little else has been known about their communication.
Now, scientists focussed on understanding variations in the structure of these codas and found that the codas could be combined in different ways, with the musical concepts of rubato and ornamentation, as well as rhythm and tempo. These four classifications were seen to be combined in a multitude of different ways, making many distinguishable codas from the whale vocalizations. This helped them develop what they have dubbed a “sperm whale phonetic alphabet”.
“Investigating a dataset collected across over a decade of nearly 9,000 codas from the sperm whale families of the Eastern Caribbean clan, our results show that these whales have a more complex combinatorial communication system that demonstrates rubato and ornamentation, in which whales make sub-second adjustments to match one another as they converse and add extra clicks to known coda types depending on the context within their conversations," said Dr Shane Gero, Biology Lead of Project CETI and co-founder of the Dominica Sperm Whale Project, in statement sent to IFLScience.
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https://www.iflscience.com/sperm-whale-phonetic-alphabet-surprisingly-similar-in-structure-to-human-language-74097
The all-female patrol guarding Ecuador's Amazon Rainforest
1 day ago
By Gabriela Barzallo,
Features correspondent
The Yuturi Warmi, an Ecuadorian patrol group, has vowed to protect their community's land in the Amazon Rainforest from the pollution of extractive industries – and their efforts appear to be working.
It is the break of dawn in the Serena community, in the middle of the Ecuadorian Amazon. Along the Jatunyacu River, which later joins the Amazon River in the Napo Province, Elsa Cerda, a 43-year-old indigenous Kichwa woman, brews guayusa leaves – a native plant from the rainforest – in a pot.
It marks the start of the Guayusa Upina, a ritual performed by Amazonian indigenous peoples before beginning their daily activities. This tradition is more than a routine; it's a spiritual connection to their ancestral roots.
As the first rays of light begin to filter through the tree canopy, a diverse assembly of 35 women, ranging from 23 to 85 years old, arrives one by one at the ceremony. The eldest among them, Corina Andy, who is fondly called "abuela", "the grandmother", leads them in a collective cleansing ritual using medicinal plants.
Leila Cerda and Elsa Cerda, leaders of the Serena community, stand by the Jatunyacu River, which is at the heart of their community (Credit: Ana Maria Buitron)
Meanwhile, the younger women chant and dance to traditional songs in their native language, Kichwa Napo.
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https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240503-the-indigenous-women-fighting-mining-in-ecuadors-amazon
"Strength, strength!" Cerda shouts, and as the echo lingers, the women respond with "guard, guard!".
Indigenous leader's killer is convicted in Brazil, but tensions over land remain
by Sarah Brown on 7 May 2024
- Bar owner João Carlos da Silva was on April 15 sentenced to 18 years in prison for the murder of Indigenous land defender and teacher Ari Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau four years earlier.
- Ari’s murder became symbolic of the struggle land defenders in Brazil face when protecting their ancestral territories, including constant threats and sometimes deadly violence.
- The Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau Indigenous Territory faces fresh threats after a national lawmaker claimed its current boundaries are wrong and vowed to reduce the area in favor of local cattle ranchers and farmers.
- It’s one of several territorial setbacks that Indigenous lands across Brazil are currently facing; others include a territory in Paraná state whose demarcation process has been suspended, and one in Bahía state that could potentially be auctioned off.
On April 17, 2020, an Indigenous leader who fought to protect his ancestral land was violently killed in the Brazilian state of Rondônia. Almost exactly four years later, a local bar owner has been convicted and sentenced to 18 years in prison for Ari Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau’s murder. The ruling marks a rare case of justice for violence against Indigenous land defenders, even as conflicts over traditional territories in Brazil persist.
On April 15 this year, a court in Rondônia convicted João Carlos da Silva for double aggravated homicide of the Indigenous land defender and teacher — meaning the murder was intentional, the motive was frivolous, and defense was impossible for the victim. According to court records, Silva had offered Ari drinks at his bar until he became unconscious, before then killing him with blows to the neck and head and taking his body to a different location and leaving it by the side of a road in order to hinder the investigation.
The trial was broadcast live with the presence of several Indigenous people, including family members. Ari’s sister, Mandeí Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau, testified in the trial, calling her brother “a good boy who always defended our territory.”
The crime was originally thought to have been related to Ari’s work in land and environmental surveillance, but the Federal Police ruled out a link between the murder and land defense. Instead, they concluded that Silva knew Ari and killed him due to a dislike of the victim and being bothered by his presence.
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https://news.mongabay.com/2024/05/indigenous-leaders-killer-is-convicted-in-brazil-but-tensions-over-land-remain/
If you'll notice, in the video, it's mentioned the heavy violence by invaders in indigenous land that this particular brutal stuff started in 2016.
The progressive President, and Brazil's first woman President, Dilma Rousseff was viciously taken from office by Bolsonaro's hard-right, racist majority in the legislature in August, 2016, through filthy maneuvering. She was replaced quickly by Michael Temer, who opened fire symbolically by turning business loose on indigenous territory.
Two articles:
Brazil’s Dilma Rousseff: Impeachment is a coup
Vice president takes over as a defiant Dilma Rousseff, suspended for 180 days, vows to fight on.
13 May 2016
Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff has addressed the nation in a defiant speech outside the presidential palace, calling a senate decision to suspend her for 180 days a coup.
Rousseff, 68, has been in office since 2011 and her suspension came hours after the senate voted 55-22 to put her on trial, a decision that ended more than 13 years of rule by the left-wing The Workers’ Party.
She said on Thursday that she was “a victim of a legal farce and a political farce”.
“When an elected president is suspended because of a crime she hasn’t committed, the name we give is not impeachment but a coup,” Rousseff said.
“I may have made mistakes but I did not commit any crime. The coup d’etat threatens to undo true victories of [the] last decade.”
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https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/5/13/brazils-dilma-rousseff-impeachment-is-a-coup
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Brazil’s President Temer trashes Indian rights for personal political gain
July 21, 2017
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The Brazilian President Michel Temer has accepted a controversial legal opinion which denies Indigenous people the right to their land, and made it official policy.
The opinion states that Indigenous peoples do not have the right to their land if they were not occupying it when the current constitution came into effect in October 1988.
The opinion contradicts the constitution, which clearly states that Indigenous peoples have the right to exclusively occupy and use the lands which they have inhabited since long before European colonization of the country.
Brazil’s federal prosecutor’s office and eminent jurists say that this is only an opinion, and has no legal status as well as being unconstitutional.
Joenia Wapixana, Brazil’s first female Indigenous lawyer said: “Our original rights are imprescriptible, so the time frame is unconstitutional.”
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https://www.survivalinternational.org/news/11754
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