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Savage infighting in Brazilian coalition exposes President Rousseff political weakness
A Brazilian minister accused his own party of trying to destroy him and said he might not have enough support to continue in his job, raising the odds of yet another high-level departure from President Dilma Rousseff's beleaguered government. Read full article
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Aug 25th, 2011 - 02:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0A huge nation built on a pyramid (dung-heap) of corruption is coming to terms with the idea that corruption might be wrong.
Politicians all across the country are burying the evidence as hard and as fast as they can dig.
Rats are ratting on rats,
and the trails to the evidence are appearing almost daily in the White Knight magazine, Veja.
There will be places to hide because we are dealing with a huge nation and not with a Skinner Box.
Some will hide, some will try to bluster through, some will 'spend more time with the family', others will try to get family members/wives/lovers voted into power in their place to keep the money rolling in.
The corruption is so wide and so deep and so institutionalised ingrained and long established that virtually none will be untouched by it.
Not all will be tainted.
Many will be uncorrupted but condemned by association.
Perhaps the Ficha Limpa was not too weak - perhaps it was too STRONG.
Perhaps, when it passed through Senate, few realised what it would mean in practice.
But these exposes *today*, and these resignations and sackings *today*, are going on in real time. The Ficha Limpa was designed to curtail the standing for office of individuals with a previously tainted record. The FL message was not heeded by the politicians; “Carry on as before” has resumed as the norm.
And so the medicine must be stronger.
If my analysis is correct, too few politicians will survive unscathed from the present putsch and the FL combined.
The Government WILL need to be reconstituted.
And so will the Constitution.
There will need to be a period of all-party unity of thought, action, policy and practice, within the new paradigm of ethical governance.
This must cascade throughout all levels of public administration.
It will come as a surprise to the man in the street to have streamlined handling of his interaction with the state, no despachantes or notaries, needed - just honest efficiency.
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