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Brazilian Sports minister resigns: fifth to be forced out over corruption allegations
Brazil's sports minister resigned on Wednesday over a corruption scandal, the country's GloboNews television station said, reviving concern over President Dilma Rousseff's unstable ruling coalition and the country's lagging preparations for the 2014 World Cup. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesSuch bald-faced insolence from this communist.
Oct 27th, 2011 - 12:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It needed a Supreme Court decision to investigate the man and the Party to cause him to resign.
If it went to court the Communist Party of Brasil would be hauled into the public spotlight, have its present corruption and history of corruption exposed, and shown up for the corrupt party it is. No Party would be able to be associated with it in future coalitions, and it would be cast into the cold of Brasilian politics.
His Party threw him to the wolves in order that The Communist Party could continue to exist and so that its corrupt nature should never be exposed to the Brasilian public.
Geoff, according to the dutch language online news about brazil is that the communist party indeed threw him out to save themself, but even if their reputation is damaged, they will be there because not all (who are in that group) are guilty of corruption (or not yet, we have to see). It's the same for the other parties in brazil and In my opinion, this is the first leader who doesn't have patience with it. Dilma is like Rumors, okay, Rumors are growing and growing in weeks, you're out. If you're innocent, no problem, guilty, you're going to jail. Happened to already one and the rest is comming if they are proven guilty. now that is remarkable in Brazil where there is a reputation where elites or elites wannabe rarely went to jail.
Oct 27th, 2011 - 02:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I know about Dantas is fresh in your mind, but guess what, they (the government) have and could not proof that he was/is guilty. they tried, tried and tried, but failed. they knew something was wrong, but just could not go by that to put him in jail. that's the problem with you're innocent until proven guilty, but it's a must to go like that to be 99% fair and have a 99% fair trail. Showes nothing is 100% perfect.
I'm not partisan here in the US, nor I was never in Holland, and think the same of the Brazilian politics that I follow since and read/studied about it since 1998, Dilma shows without being biased that she is against corruption..simple. and that's why she's winning with the public who are “slowly” awaken after so many years of tolerance of corruption.
Thanks,
Oct 27th, 2011 - 04:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0my opinion is just that - opinion.
It will be interesting to see who PT prefers for the next presidential candidate - Dilma or Lula.
So much to play for. . . . it´s like
black v white,
right v wrong ,
. . . . what will the people want v what will the politicians want?
It will be interesting to see who PT prefers for the next presidential candidate - Dilma or Lula.
Oct 27th, 2011 - 11:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0That's already clear and it won't be Lula, and you know that yourself. And we both know Dilma will run again. If she's going to win, I don't know and doesn't matter because the real winners are the Brazilian people in Brazil.
Agreed
Oct 28th, 2011 - 01:09 am - Link - Report abuse 0You must have the magic touch, Geoff.
Oct 29th, 2011 - 09:47 am - Link - Report abuse 0Not so, Isolde,
Oct 29th, 2011 - 12:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0We are a pack of wild wolves, each liable to turn on any other over any provocation. A lot of snarling and bareing of teeth, hackles high and angled strutting of the tall strut.
But occasionally - and to deliciously mix the metaphor - the lion will lay down with the lamb.
@7Geoff,
Oct 30th, 2011 - 02:09 am - Link - Report abuse 0What l meant, Geoff is that you had a conversation with our Dutch friend & he didn't get:-
1) angry
2) insulting
3) condescending
4) rave on about bad teeth
5) say anything anti-British
Will wonders ever cease. Maybe you should take a job as his keeper?
And other types of corruption continue unabated (Condensed from Bom dia Brasil, 31 Oct 2011)
Oct 31st, 2011 - 01:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Elite Squad II (Tropa de Elite II: The Enemy Within) truth and fiction come together in Brasil
Marcelo Ash, the real-life State Deputy of Rio de Janeiro, is being helped by Amnesty International to leave Brazil because he has been receiving death threats by militia thugs.
Immensely popular Marcelo Ash is the Deputy who investigated and accused hundreds of militia, military police and political individuals. He is the inspiration for the character 'Fragile' in the exposé film 'Elite Squad II',
What are these Militias?
Militias are police officers, firefighters and military that dominate whole areas of Brasil, like the West Zone of Rio de Janeiro. They practice extortion, they murder, and they influence/control the political life of the region.
The State Government has afforded protection to Ash, a police chief and several officers of the Department of Correctional Affairs and Civil Police.
Ash escapes Rio to ‘somewhere in Europe’ but intends to return to Brasil before next year.
But will anywhere be safe for him? Militias have previously caused the death of Judge Patricia Acioli and they operate in 11 states across Brasil.
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