Brazilian politics at its best: nepotism and a sentenced rapist to Congress

Wednesday, January 10th 2018 - 10:03 UTC

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Brazilian president Michel Temer's latest cabinet reshuffle has not been very encouraging or in accordance with his survival abilities so far. In effect the candidate named as future minister of Labor had to reach a debt payment deal with a driver that provided services to the family, and the politician who will be replacing her in Congress was sentenced for raping minors. Read full article

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golfcronie
Brazil, sounds like a wonderful country to live in if you are a minor, what is wrong with these South American countries? They all seem to be stuck in the 16th Century, corruption on a grand scale, child prostitutes and so on and so forth.Thank God I don't live there anymore.
Jan 10th, 2018 - 11:07 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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@golfcronie

REF: “sentenced rapist to Congress”:

Should read as: “Sentenced rapist to a THOROUGHLY Corrupt Congress”

You are right - even Brazilians prefer not to live in Brazil and quite a few [better educated, more intelligent] of them have already left the country [for good].
REF:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-brazil-corruption/brazil-doubles-investigators-in-corruption-cases-against-sitting-politicians-idUSKBN1ET28P?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Reuters%2FworldNews+%28Reuters+World+News%29 |

No matter how good and how serious their intentions are; I wonder if all these investigations REALLY can
#1: punish the corrupt and more importantly,
#2: manage to receive back ALL the stolen TRILLIONS [which thousands of them have been stealing - regularly and repeatedly - for nearly twenty five or so years]!
Jan 10th, 2018 - 04:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Jack Bauer
Temer's choice of the future (probably not-to-be) Labour Minister, and his insistence (in order to consolidate votes in favour of the reform of the pension system), is lamentable. Besides being the daughter of one of those condemned (in 2012) in the PT''s “mensalão” corruption scheme , which in itself does not NECESSARILY incriminate her - but it does, as she has followed in her father's footsteps ; If even in simple cases like labour relationships, she breaks the Law and has been condemned twice, and STILL does not comply with the court's decision, what to expect of her when she is given a millionaire budget to administer ? The fact she dresses, looks like and speaks like a cheap whore, does nothing for her....the sad side of all this, is that one concludes that there is virtually no one in Congress that is not a thief, or one in the making, and fit to be appointed to a ministerial position ; “Que situação de me**a !”
Jan 10th, 2018 - 06:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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@JB:

REF: “a SENTENCED rapist to Congress”:

Will ANYONE sentence ALL of them for RAPING Brazil?
REF:
http://www.chargeonline.com.br/php/DODIA//nani.jpg
Jan 11th, 2018 - 12:15 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Jack Bauer
No...unless the military takes over, to end all the 'putaria'...
Jan 11th, 2018 - 07:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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@JB:
REF: “......................and STILL does not comply with the court's decision”:

That's easy to justify:
- The law is the same
- Its interpretation by the Powerful-Corrupt is - justifiably [made palatable for the masses] - quite different! REF:
https://i2.wp.com/blogdoaftm.web2419.uni5.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/2780-CHARGE-DODGE-NINGUEM-19-09-2017-820x615.jpg
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