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Brazil closing all land borders except with Uruguay, and banning entry from EU and Pacific countries
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Disclaimer & comment rules”Self-Isolating Brazil is bringing down its hated President
Mar 23rd, 2020 - 05:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Leandro Grass’s impeachment request, delivered to President of Congress Rodrigo Maia, described various crimes of responsibilty (high crimes and misdemeanours), of the type which could not be found to impeach Rousseff. Instead, she was impeached controversially for a budgetary infraction involving no personal enrichment, a manoeuvre which was officially legalised days after her removal, and has been used by all Presidents prior and since. It was a punishment looking for a crime.
The charges levelled at Bolsonaro could not be more different – he is accused of attacking Brazil’s Democracy itself:
1 – Public support for the March 15 street protests to shut down Congress and the Supreme Court.
2 – Publicly declaring, without offering any evidence, that the 2018 presidential elections were rigged by “Communists” to prevent him from winning in the first round.
3 – Public personal attacks against journalist Patricia Campos Mello which violate Brazil’s anti-sexism legislation.
4 – Breaking presidential decorum through publishing a pornographic video on his presidential social media accounts during the 2019 Carnaval.
5 – Attempting to create a public holiday commemorating the 1964 US-backed neofascist Military coup.
Given the means by which Bolsonaro was elected – information about which continues to be released – the second point is of particular interest.
There have been ample grounds for an impeachment for some time. And the winds of public opinion now suggest that it would be successful.
On March 10 Bolsonaro gave a press conference in which he declared that Coronavirus was fake news, a “media fantasy” and his chronic mishandling of the pandemic is accelerating calls for his removal from office.
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