BRAZIL PARALYZED BY NATIONWIDE STRIKE, DRIVEN BY A FAMILIAR GLOBAL DYNAMIC OF ELITE CORRUPTION AND IMPUNITY

JUST OVER ONE year ago, Brazil’s elected president, Dilma Rousseff, was impeached — ostensibly due to budgetary lawbreaking — and replaced with her centrist vice president, Michel Temer. Since then, virtually every aspect of the nation’s political and economic crisis — especially corruption — has worsened.

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The impeachment of Rousseff is a coup d'etat: BRAZIL GENERAL STRIKE TO PROTEST TEMER'S NEOLIBERA...

The impeachment of Rousseff is a coup d'etat: BRAZIL GENERAL STRIKE TO PROTEST TEMER'S NEOLIBERA...: Friday's general strike comes amid a dismal disapproval rating for the Temer administration — a staggering 87 percent. www.telesur.ne...

The impeachment of Rousseff is a coup d'etat: BRAZIL GENERAL STRIKE TO PROTEST TEMER'S NEOLIBERA...

The impeachment of Rousseff is a coup d'etat: BRAZIL GENERAL STRIKE TO PROTEST TEMER'S NEOLIBERA...: Friday's general strike comes amid a dismal disapproval rating for the Temer administration — a staggering 87 percent. www.telesur.ne...

The impeachment of Rousseff is a coup d'etat: BRAZIL GENERAL STRIKE TO PROTEST TEMER'S NEOLIBERA...

The impeachment of Rousseff is a coup d'etat: BRAZIL GENERAL STRIKE TO PROTEST TEMER'S NEOLIBERA...: Friday's general strike comes amid a dismal disapproval rating for the Temer administration — a staggering 87 percent. www.telesur.ne...

BRAZIL GENERAL STRIKE TO PROTEST TEMER'S NEOLIBERAL REFORMS

Friday's general strike comes amid a dismal disapproval rating for the Temer administration — a staggering 87 percent.

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COUP LEADERS ARE KEEPING THEIR PROMISES IN BRAZIL

They are protecting themselves from prosecution for corruption and carrying out neoliberal shock therapy for the country.

'OUT WITH TEMER' CHANTS LIGHT UP BRAZIL CARNIVAL FESTIVITIES

Thousands danced to the words "Sexist, fascist, they shall not pass!" against President Michel Temer and his coup-imposed government.

By Telesur