BRAZIL'S LULA FACES JUDGE IN CORRUPTION CASE "WITCH HUNT"

Brazil's media is painting Lula's testimony as an epic showdown, as tens of thousands of the ex-president's supporters are out in the streets

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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.