Brazil leader's coalition collapses as impeachment looms

[Zorro]

Source: AFP

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff's chances of surviving impeachment nosedived Tuesday when her ruling coalition's main partner jumped ship and went into opposition.

The PMDB, the country's largest party, voted to end its alliance with Rousseff's leftist Workers' Party, or PT, immediately.

"From today, at this historic meeting of the PMDB, the PMDB withdraws from the government of President Rousseff," said Senator Romero Juca, the party vice president.

The meeting, broadcast live on national television, was the culmination of a long divorce with Rousseff, leaving Brazil's first female president grasping at straws as she tries to stay in power.


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Another successful CIA operation unfolds.

[Odin2005]

1. The CIA made her be corrupt?

The CIA has done a lot of terrible things in Latin America, but not every problem a center-left government in Latin America has is the fault of the CIA.

[Zorro]

4. That's a joke, son

[NobodyHere]

9. That joke is not obvious on this board

[highoverheadspace]

6. What do you think the CIA does in the 193 countries

of the world, hand out candy?

[Algernon Moncrieff]

2. So how will this impact the Summer Olympics?

It already seemed like an impending train wreck.

[NWCorona]

3. Good question!

[forkol]

5. As someone who follows the economic impact of the Olympics...

It's not looking good. On my recent visit there, in talking to folks, they really are not happy at all with Dilma. And since they dragged in Lula, I suspect the feeling has only gotten worse.

The Olympics were supposed to be good for Rio and Brazil as a whole, but the combination of the politics/corruption, low oil revenues, Zika virus, and environmental concerns will put a strain on them to get it done and have it be successful. They will get it done, the games will be held, somehow. They always are.

But the aftermath will not be good. I think I remember reading that the Atlanta Olympics was the only modern Olympics to make money. As a resident of metro Atlanta, I remember the criticism Atlanta got for it being too commercialized. I also remember reading that apparently that the cost that Greece bore for holding the Olympics may have greatly contributed to their economic collapse. If the Rio Olympic committee does not raise enough funds, then the host country is liable for the remainder of the costs. And they already had to eat $15 billion dollars for the World Cup.

Most of the public work projects still are not completed, and probably will not be in time, mostly due to shoddy contractor work and corruption. Most of the venues will probably not have the funding or support to maintain them after the Olympics, so they will not end up being used and fall into disrepair (this happened even in Atlanta, China and Greece as well).

The police have cracked down hard in the favelas, and the government has put some money in cleaning them up a bit, installing wi-fi, libraries and community centers, but most favela residents feel that once the visitors leave, things will go back to the way they were.

[Blue_Tires]

8. I'd ask Greenwald for comment

but he's too busy hate-tweeting on Hillary, and crying about how U.S. media supposedly don't cover important stories...

Fuckin' bitch-assed coward...