The Intercept (9/23/16) broke the story of Michel Temer’s confession.
In a September 22 speech to an elite foreign policy group in New York City, Brazil’s legislatively installed president, Michel Temer, made the startling admission that President Dilma Rousseff was removed from office because of her position on economic policy, rather than any alleged wrongdoing on her part.
Speaking to the Americas Society/Council of the Americas, a group of “opinion leaders” and corporate executives with interests in Latin America, Temer said, as translated by The Intercept (9/23/16):
And many months ago, while I was still vice president, we released a document named “A Bridge to the Future” because we knew it would be impossible for the government to continue on that course. We suggested that the government should adopt the theses presented in that document called “A Bridge to the Future.” But, as that did not work out, the plan wasn’t adopted and a process was established which culminated with me being installed as president of the republic.
The Intercept‘s Inacio Vieira notes that the economic plan that Rousseff refused to implement called for widespread cuts to social programs and privatization, a radically different agenda from the one approved by the 54.5 million Brazilian voters who gave Rousseff’s Workers’ Party its fourth electoral victory in 2014.
But Temer’s remarkable confession was not seen as newsworthy by virtually anyone in US corporate media—though the New York Times (9/19/16) did report on the speech by Temer to the United Nations a few days earlier in which he insisted in reference to the impeachment, “Everything happened with absolute respect for the constitutional order.”
A search of the Nexis news database turns up no stories that mention his more forthright AS/COA speech in any US newspaper, magazine, broadcast or cable outlet. The story was covered in alternative outlets like The Intercept (9/23/16, 9/23/16, 9/28/16), Common Dreams (9/23/16) and Mintpress (9/26/16).
The media silence on Temer’s admission is striking, especially considering that the Council of the Americas’ members include some of the biggest names in corporate media, including News Corp, Time Warner, Bloomberg and the Financial Times.
But as signaled by Vice President Joe Biden’s recent praise for Temer’s “commitment to maintaining Brazil’s regional and global leadership role during the recent period of political change,” the US government is quite pleased with the new pro-austerity regime in Brazil (for as long as it lasts; Temer has already been barred by an electoral court from political campaigning for eight years for violating campaign spending limits). Given this official friendliness, then, it’s not surprising that elite media are not eager to expose the shady origins of Washington’s new friends.
View Michel Temer’s admission via Intercept Brasil (9/22/16):
Janine Jackson is the program director of FAIR and the producer and host of CounterSpin.
Blackouts and whitewashes
When that corporate lickspittle, Joe Biden, praises someone, feel for your wallet and hide your daughters.
I guess it was old news to the parties present.
Sorry, but the “wrongdoing” was her position on economic policy! She was impeached due to crimes against the Brazilian rules for the economic policy, the data is available to anyone… There is no “confession” on Temer’s speech… Sensationalist statement, sad…
OUT WITH USURPER TEMER! NOTHING MORE THAN A USA PUPPET AND FASCIST SOUTH AMERICA DICTATOR!
In the last 13 years Brazil has progressed socially and economically more than during the previous 500 years. These hooligans just do not accept having been won over in the recent poll.
As someone has said, an inoccent president judged by a congress of crooks! Too sad for all progressive forces in Latin America.
You’re conflating economic policy with “law.” The real “wrongdoing” is the neoliberal Elites trying to impose harmful austerity policies on the people to enslave them to the predatory capitalism of the West.
Do you know the Brazilian law? I dont understand why some people defend an economic ideology that leads only to poverty… It is useless use a money that doesnt exist, as Dilma did! And all the countries in south america using the same ideology failed! Unless you can say that everybody unemployed and poor is fair! Indeed there is equality in this scenario. It is useless to give credits for people that wont produce anything, that will generate things like happened in argentina, venezuela and now in brazil… Please, wake up and leave your utopias for yourself and try to live in real world…
Adolf
You’ve hit the nail on your head! Indeed there is equality in this scenario. Why give credits for people that wont produce anything…so very many lazy people who only want to complain. I, for one, will take your suggestion to leave my utopia for myself.
Now you should take your meds and get some rest. Remember, it is useless use a money that doesnt exist!
Perphaps you should take your own advice. If nothing else, at least educate yourself. You can start with this: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article45561.htm
Funny, a conspirationist website… that was really great!!!
I’m not surprised you would automatically dismiss a source because it counters the false propaganda the mainstream media has been feeding you. The truth is only visible to those willing to see it.
Come on… I am a high educated Brazilian, I had a good job e I saw everything falls down during the most horrible administration ever, everybody losing their jobs, including me. We already have 12 million of unemployed… The corruption is already a great reason to impeach a president. Half of her party people is already in the jail and the former president Lula is not in jail yet because the his strong public image, but soon he will be arrested … but it was not the only one…the economic lies and the disaster in the economic is the main reason… I think you should have more information about Brazil before publish this. Temer has the most difficult mission, in respect of all Brazilians don’t try to make it worse.
You sound more like a shill for Temer’s opposition party trying to keep the false narrative alive.
And you sound more like a naive socialist or a workers party trying to defend your criminals!
It’s really very difficult in this active life to
listen news on Television, so I simply use internet for that reason, and obtain the latest news.
You can be sure the USAB$CEOs support PresTemer. Brazil beongs to the USA.
Unfortunetly, it was a coulp AGAIN…We´re used to it, it happens all the time here. Everytime, in Brazil, that a workers party achieve power, the rich people and midia support a coulp. No news.
It was the first time that the workers party achieved power and in last 13 years!!! What kind of “coulp”(???) is this tha waits for 13 years?!?!?! You are being naive and tricked, wake up