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Sixth member of Rousseff’s cabinet resigns amid corruption allegations
Brazil’s Labor and Employment Minister Carlos Lupi resigned Sunday, the sixth Cabinet member to leave President Dilma Rousseff’s government since June amid corruption allegations. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesSo, he got the bullet after all!
Dec 05th, 2011 - 05:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Brazil will never be taken seriously until it gets this corruption under control. If this was a legitimate/serious country the President would have stepped down by now. Pretty disgraceful.
Dec 06th, 2011 - 12:24 am - Link - Report abuse 0If this was a legitimate/serious country the President would have stepped down by now. Pretty disgraceful.
Dec 06th, 2011 - 01:43 am - Link - Report abuse 0Get real mexican, I mean “yankeeboy”. If a minister/senetor or a clown that suppose to represent you is accused of “fraud”, he or she must or will be forced to step down, not the president. That doesn't happen in any country, and certainly not in Mexico with more corruption and it isn't been taken serious at all if you compare how the US takes Brazil 100 times more serious.
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Dec 06th, 2011 - 10:20 am - Link - Report abuse 0ths IS part of the process of getting corruption under control.
Dilma inherited what she inherited.
The corruption baggage came with 'inheriting' coalition parties and life-long politicians and administrators.
Ministries were allocated to parties to win allegiance because this was the way the coalition had evolved particularly under the previous president. The corrupt practices ( 'no questions asked') became built up as each party 'owned' the ministerial budget allocation over many years.
A revolution can clear away the corruption but risks replacing it with different yet similar pay-backs necessary to make it successful.
No, the process of fundimental change in a democracy - because that is what Brasil is - has to *prepare* the people AND the (corrupt) officials to desire and accept a new way of 'doing government'.
What we have been seeing this year is an outsider at work, establishing herself as powerful and resolute. Each battle she wins against the next corrupt 'big beast' makes the war easier for the following battle.
And there WILL be battle after battle after battle, until she reaches the tipping point where votes and uncorrupt practices flood her way.
Only at that point can she claim to be winning the war against national corruption.
But it will need her to stay healthy, and to be constantly vigilant to counter attacks, threats, blackmail or assassination attempts (and I am not joking).
Every flight taken in a plane by a leader unpopular with the powerful (corrupt) establishment is a relief when the plane lands safely.
This is a woman with balls.
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