Re:Brazil political crisis deepens as President Temer taped ...
by triangleman on Thursday May 18, 2017 @01:19PM
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Brazil had previously impeached their first democratically elected president, Collor, on relatively trumped-up charges, similar to Dilma. This will be the first time Brazil actually impeaches a president on serious charges.
Edit: This article by Glenn Greenwald (a resident of Brazil) is informative:
https://theintercept.com/2017/05/18/after-latest-bombshells-...
In other words, that there is a reasonable expectation (sure, let's see what actually happens now) that this incident will actually cost Temer his career, even if the scope of the incident is much smaller than what has previously been more or less silently tolerated?