[Igor Antunov]

Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff is to face trial after the Senate voted to impeach and suspend her.

Ms Rousseff is accused of illegally manipulating finances to hide a growing public deficit ahead of her re-election in 2014, which she denies.

Senators voted to suspend her by 55 votes to 22 after an all-night session that lasted more than 20 hours.

Vice-President Michel Temer will now assume the presidency while Ms Rousseff's trial takes place.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-36273916

At least 60% of the entire senate is facing investigation for corruption/criminal conduct.

http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/B ... -0015.html

Unless they throw the baby out with the bath water, this means nothing, a more corrupt baby will weasel its way into the bathwater.

Also, olympics nobody gives a shit about are scheduled in 3 months.

[KurtFF8]

Bad news for democracy in Brazil and especially bad for working and poor people there who are about to face a new unelected neoliberal regime.

[Eauz]

Yes, this is an unfortunate attack upon democracy.

Essentially, she is charged with cooking the books to hide deficit during an election. With that said, she has not been accused or charged with any actual corruption that here adversaries have been, by having money stowed away in foreign accounts. These people are the actual thieves and criminals who want to shut down the full corruption review and point the fault solely at the Worker's Party. The problem with Rousseff is that she is not a skilled politician by any means and the existing Oligarchs, who have been using democratic means to oust the Worker's Party for many years, are using this crisis as a means to take over through a coup. The Oligarchs are essentially using undemocratic force to remove a leadership that they couldn't remove in a democratic manner.

There were 519 members of the lower house who voted on her impeachment and 330 of them are implicated in corruption. The hypocrisy and irony of the situation is that these people have been caught with foreign bank accounts to hide taxes, bribes and kick backs, while Rousseff has never been involved with such charges during her time in power.

This is an absolute power grab from the right, as they are using the fact that the economy is in horrible shape, painting Rousseff as a horrible manager of the economy, thus promoting a push to get rid of Rousseff and impose a failed neoliberal economy agenda upon Brazil. The Oligarchs and the right just want to send a message to foreign markets and wall street that Brazil is open for investment to attract foreign capital. Their goal is to demonstrate to these markets and investors that they will have a commitment to cutting government spending and impost austerity upon the poor and working-class of Brazil.

In general though, the protesters are mainly white and wealthy members of society who would prefer a right wing neoliberal government that will promote their interests, as opposed to the actual interests of the working-class.

Here is an excellent example of the entitlement that these protesters enjoy and what they are fighting for. I've read captions from people that essentially state...

Rich, white privilaged couple: Hurry up weekend nanny! We have to get to the protests against the government who makes us pay you minimum wage.

Link

This is why Socialist and Worker parties need to crack down on the oligarchs and right-wing, as they have always shown (especially in South America) no respect for democracy and would prefer to make up stories and push a specific neoliberal agenda that has shown to not work long-term in the West, let alone in poorer countries.

[redcarpet]

Seem to remember reading it might be linked to her authorising a massive set of corruption investigations that the right-wing opposition is scared about.

A stitch up.

[Dr House]

lol, "failed" neoliberal agenda.

How is the glorious Bolivarian Revolution going, again?

[sans-culotte]

^ Brazil's malnutrition rate only fell appreciably in the last two decades with the help of massive government intervention.

Brazil has been astonishingly successful in tacklin
g poverty and hunger in its own back-yard. In
just nine years it has slashed child malnutrition b
y 61% and rural poverty by 15% largely by
supporting local farmers and locally-sourced consum
ption.

source

This was driven by government credit programs for smallholders, rural minimum wages, guaranteed state procurements under the Program of Food Acquisition and a new rugaltory framework involving social control.
Your "biased america" article is really quite bad, it doesn't even differentiate between export cash crops and actual food production.