{"id":80507,"date":"2016-10-03T12:00:13","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T11:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=80507"},"modified":"2016-10-03T12:28:36","modified_gmt":"2016-10-03T11:28:36","slug":"brazils-impeached-ex-president-dilma-rousseff-says-successor-confessed-to-the-coup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2016\/10\/brazils-impeached-ex-president-dilma-rousseff-says-successor-confessed-to-the-coup\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil\u2019s Impeached Ex-President Dilma Rousseff Says Successor \u201cConfessed to the Coup\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"dilma-rousseff\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Leia em portugu\u00eas \u27f6<\/a><\/p>\n

28 Sep 2016 – <\/em>In the\u00a0first\u00a0exclusive interview following her impeachment, former Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff said\u00a0that her unelected successor, installed President Michel Temer, has \u201cconfessed to the coup\u201d against her. Rousseff was referring to controversial public\u00a0remarks\u00a0delivered by\u00a0Temer last week in which he explicitly stated that the impeachment process was initiated due to Rousseff\u2019s refusal to accept his party\u2019s neoliberal economic plan, rather than the\u00a0alleged budgetary manipulations that\u00a0served as the stated justification for impeachment. Temer\u2019s remarks\u00a0were first reported by The Intercept Brasil<\/a> last Thursday [22 Sep].<\/p>\n

Watch Rousseff\u2019s\u00a0statement:<\/p>\n

httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ed6tTETM4YA<\/p>\n

Also, there were those with their own plans who\u00a0wanted something else: \u201cWe will implement a political program that was not approved by the ballot box, a different political plan.\u201d And this is being confessed, there\u2019s something curious about this coup, they confess the coup. Two days later. They\u2019re confessing. Last confession came from the illegitimate and usurper president, currently in office, who said the following: \u201cWe came up with the impeachment to implement the program \u2018Bridge to the Future.\u2019\u201d Well, the program \u201cBridge to the Future,\u201d that takes away labor rights, takes away social rights, privatizes, and sells lands to foreigners, this program was not approved by the ballot box. So, this is another reason behind the coup.<\/p>\n

The interview, broadcast on Tuesday evening, was conducted by the veteran journalist Bob Fernandes for the public television station\u00a0TVE Bahia<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The frankness of Temer\u2019s statement, delivered to an audience of U.S.\u00a0financiers and foreign policy elites at the Americas Society\/Council of the Americas (AS\/COA) in New York City, stunned many people, although virtually none of the large Brazilian media \u2014 which united in support of impeachment \u2014 has yet reported the remarks<\/a>. The\u00a0economic proposal, which outlines a series of neoliberal reforms<\/a>\u00a0such as privatization of state assets and cuts to social programs,\u00a0was introduced in 2015, when\u00a0Temer\u2019s party, the PMDB, worked in a coalition with\u00a0Rousseff\u2019s Workers\u2019 Party (PT).<\/p>\n

Watch Temer\u2019s statement here:<\/p>\n

httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pP2IGTZOS4M<\/p>\n

During\u00a0the same event in New York, these measures were described in greater\u00a0detail<\/a> by the new finance minister, Henrique Meirelles. The audience was comprised of\u00a0AS\/COA<\/a>\u00a0members and guests from collaborating organizations: the American Chamber of Commerce for Brazil and Brazil Investments and Business, known as\u00a0BRAiN<\/a>.<\/p>\n

At the end of the presentation, the audience\u00a0had the opportunity to ask only two questions to the finance minister, both illustrating well the concerns presented by Rousseff in her interview with TVE. An automobile\u00a0industry representative asked when foreigners \u201cwill be allowed to acquire land in Brazil,\u201d and a unnamed attendee asked about \u201cplans that the government has to manage the potential social unrest of these measures\u00a0that will affect the pockets of every Brazilian.\u201d<\/p>\n

The unexpected declaration by Temer was reported by several independent media outlets but was completely ignored<\/a> by all the traditional media, with the exception of\u00a0Exame<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Carta Capital<\/a>\u00a0magazines\u00a0and the left-leaning\u00a0Jornal do Brasil<\/a>\u00a0newspaper. One person who seems excited about the neoliberal agenda of Brazil\u2019s newly installed government is U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew, who,\u00a0in Bras\u00edlia yesterday, expressed great optimism<\/a> about the economic path on which the country is now being placed.<\/p>\n

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Inacio Vieira<\/a><\/em> – \u2709inacio.vieira@theintercept.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Go to Original \u2013 theintercept.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The impeached president highlights the stunning comments from Michel Temer that Brazil\u2019s big media has ignored.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}