MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Rousseff impeachment begins; huge metal barricades outside Congress to separate rival demonstrators
Brazilian Senators launched the impeachment trial of suspended president Dilma Rousseff on Thursday expected to end 13 years of populist rule in Latin America's biggest economy. The friendly spirit of the Rio Olympic Games faded and tension returned as the emotionally charged affair neared its climax, with Rousseff facing removal from office within days. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rules“Chief justice Ricardo Lewandowski declared the trial open and later briefly suspended it as senators yelled at each other while debating procedural matters.”
Aug 26th, 2016 - 12:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Piss-up in the brewery has started I see, with the BBQ being prepared (see 5) for lunch.
Lula looks like a janitor, there to clean the rubbish up after he has spoken it.
Don't you just love the 'politicians' of the third world countries of SA?
1 ChrisR
Aug 26th, 2016 - 01:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Careful the colour of your racism is on full display.
“Rousseff's ally and predecessor, PT founder Lula da Silva, said in a speech in Rio: “Today begins a week of national shame.”
Aug 29th, 2016 - 09:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0AGW, more like 14 years of national shame comes to an end....
@1 ChrisR
Chris, PLEASE don't say that the 9-fingered mollusc looks like a 'janitor'...even if he does !.....you will offend his 'sensitive' supporters !! They might even call you a ”racist”, which is usually what the liberals do when they see things aren't going the way they want...
I don't see Temer being able to last until 2018.
Aug 30th, 2016 - 03:38 am - Link - Report abuse 0In any case Dilma has setup a PT win of the presidency at the next election.
@ 3 Jack Bauer
Aug 30th, 2016 - 07:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“They might even call you a ”racist”, which is usually what the liberals do when they see things aren't going the way they want...”
I've been called much worse by far inferior posters: ElaineB (Mother Teresa) to name one!
:o)
@3 ChrisR
Aug 30th, 2016 - 07:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I know....the only thing you should worry about beneath you, is an ant hill....
@4 Hippy
Besides your usual stupid forecasts, you are starting to sound just like the Brasshole...
Besides the fact that Dilma has been totally and definitively thrown to the dogs by the PT, I beg of you, please tell me who their secret candidate is, that will win in 2018 ? I promise not to tell anyone.....is it perhaps Maduro, Morales, or La Kretina ??
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