BY BEN KERRIGAN
Brazilian President, Dilma Rousseff has been impeached in an extraordinary move, because of allegations she broke the government’s budget laws. Following a 20 hour long vote, it was decided by Brazil’s senate that she face trial for her alleged crimes said to have plummeted the economy into a terrible recession.
Her impeachment sent shock waves throughout Latin America, where where Brazil was once established as a force to be reckoned with. She faces impeachment proceedings that could last six months. An overwhelming vote against her in Brazil’s Senate indicated that she had little chance of being acquitted.
Vice President Michel Temer immediately took over her reins, and pledged to take Brazil to a-market-friendly direction in an attempt to restore its deteriorating economy, and win over a previously cynical and dejected public. Temer introduced a conservative and all-male cabinet yesterday swinging Brazil to the right, and raising questions as to whether he has deliberately left women out to ensure a pure masculine approach to address the problems of the country. Some may well view it as sexist, bit all that matters to the new team is their new founded power to try and change the country’s state of affairs.
The newly assumed president called on the country to trust in the country’s will to recover its economy suffering its worst crisis in nearly a century. Rouseff described the impeachment as ”fraudulent” and a ”coup, adding that it was more ”painful than torture”. She protested that she did what others before her had done, saying if it was god for them, it is good for her.
The impeached former president stands accused of inappropriately using billions of dollars in loans from government banks to fill budget shortfalls and pay for social programs. Her impeachment is a reflection of the country’s pain in the face of a crippling recession and widespread corruption that has engulfed many of the country’s high ranked politicians. When David Cameron recently highlighted Nigeria and Afghanistan as two of the most ”fantastically corrupt” nations, he left our Brazil
The impeached former celebrated President is charged with abysmally mismanaging the country’s finances from lawmakers and the public to improve her reelection prospects in 2014 and cover up her tracks. With the Olympics barely months away, many Brazilians feared the worst, as they dreaded the prospects of losing their homes to foreign visitors as the government seeks to milk the global event for their own economic benefits.
However, Temer, the new President assured the Brazillian public that the Olympic Games will take off welloff well, giving Brazil the opportunity to show itself at its best. “We will never get another opportunity like this,” he said.
The impeachment of Dilma Rouseff possibly marks a turning point in the political and economic future of Brazil, and may well have a positive effect on the Olympics and the country in general.
