MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Brazilean President Rousseff looses another top official to corruption
The Brazilian congressional opposition promised to block legislative work in both Houses until the government accepts the creation of a Special Investigation Commission, CPI, to look into alleged corruption practices in several ministries from the administration of President Dilma Rousseff. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesTo lose one minister is unfortunate,
Aug 08th, 2011 - 09:45 am - Link - Report abuse 0to lose two ministers is a problem,
to lose three ministers is an issue,
to lose four ministers is a pattern,
to lose five ministers is a government in crisis,
to lose six ministers is Dilma saying to the Brasilian public “I am sick to the back teeth with the endemic corruption that is crippling Brasil, and I intend to rip it out from the body politic and all arms of government”.
All power to her elbow!
And may God give her the balls - and the time - to see it through.
She must be a no-nonsense lady, Geoff.
Aug 08th, 2011 - 10:34 am - Link - Report abuse 0She didn't lose six ministers, Geoff, and neither has she (yet) lost another one, as Mercopress is implying, for nothing has been proved against Mr. Rossi. That opposition parties would try and remove government nominations is unsurprising; that's what they do.
Aug 08th, 2011 - 11:21 am - Link - Report abuse 0Btw, I wish I could have seen you pulling this tired “scandalized self-righteous common man” act when we were discussing Britain's own problems regarding police corruption and government misbehavior - this one a scandal that really reached all levels of society. A whole banquet for people like you, people who like to rant to show off how righteous they are. You mysteriously let the ball drop, though.
Forgetit.
Aug 08th, 2011 - 03:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Stop being so illogically 'partisan'.
Here am I trying to support our Presidenta in her rooting her rooting out of corruption in her coalition government & administration, and all you can do is try to score schoolboy debating points.
Try backing her.
She's not rooting anything out, Geoff. If - if! - she had indeed been losing ministers to corruption the way you suggest she is, she should try and do something other than changing ministers' names. What we see is just what I said - the opposition trying to destabilize the government. You don't want to see it that way because of your own partisanship issue.
Aug 08th, 2011 - 07:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I have no vested interest in one party over another or one aggregation of parties into a coalition over a different aggregation. If a party not presently in power wer to be in power and the same corruption pertained, I would be equally vociferous against that party/those coalition members/those individuals.
Aug 09th, 2011 - 08:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0And if Dilma is not rooting out the most grossly and blatently corrupt people in her administration, the corrupt individuals themselves are doing a great job of making themselves available for sacking/abrupt retirement/'spending more time with the family'.
Perhaps it needs this phase to be gone through before sanity can be brought to the fore in Brasilian politics.
You might not have any partisan loyalties, Geoff - but ideological sympathies you certainly have.
Aug 09th, 2011 - 08:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You are so right.
Aug 09th, 2011 - 10:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I am ideologically in favour of ethical governance.
I am ideologically against corrupt governance.
Are you two old friends?
Aug 10th, 2011 - 07:05 am - Link - Report abuse 0:-)
Aug 10th, 2011 - 11:00 am - Link - Report abuse 0l was being sarcastic, Geoff.
Aug 10th, 2011 - 12:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I know Isolde.
Aug 10th, 2011 - 03:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0We might disagree, sometimes vociferously, but we are by no means enemies.
Much better to talk with an intelligent verbal combatant, rather than a nodding bore.
If I had to consider Geoff an enemy because of his many shallow opinions, I'd be pretty alone by now. I guess I told Geoff once how his views on governance issues are similar to my father's; even the self-assured demeanor is the same. And I don't dislike my father because of that, just as I don't dislike Geoff. Thing is, over the internet it is much easier to confront people over their views, in contrast to real life, where on the other hand one is more concerned about having smooth relations with everyone else.
Aug 10th, 2011 - 04:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I would lay a bet that Forgetit's dad had more 'liberal' opinions when he was as young as Forgetit.
Aug 10th, 2011 - 07:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0With older age comes experience of the cycles of life, society, etc. When you see the same circumstances two or three times and the same outcomes, you feel more sure of your predictions when the 'same' circumstances re-arise.
You just say 'oh, foolish one, can't you see what will happen' - but of course, without experience what chance have they got of predictively 'seeing the outcomes'.
So many 'shallow' opinions are no more than obvious and right, however much some would wish for other outcomes.
[And, by the way, the BBC refuse to publish my opinions on the London riots; too radical - and too obvious - for their sensitivities.]
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