Brazil president warns of 'putsch' ahead of impeachment vote

[Zorro]

Source: AFP

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff said Wednesday she was the victim of a coup as her allies horse-traded frantically for enough votes to ride out an impeachment drive.

"Impeachment is a putschist process that is out of line with the country's trajectory since returning to democracy," Rousseff said in a speech in Brasilia, referring to the end of Brazil's two-decade military dictatorship in 1985.

A months-long crisis reducing Latin America's biggest country to political paralysis ahead of the Rio Olympics deepened Tuesday when Rousseff's leftist Workers' Party lost its main coalition partner.

That leaves Rousseff isolated as she tries to survive impeachment in Congress against a background of punishing recession and a corruption scandal at state oil company Petrobras that has snared a cross-section of the country's elite.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/brazil-president-horse-trades-ahead-impeachment-vote-153541328.html

[Recursion]

1. $20 says DUers will be referring to "the CIA-backed coup in Brazil" in a year

and linking to this statement as the evidence.

[COLGATE4]

2. In a year? Hell, I expect it within a month or two.

[Odin2005]

3. I've already seen such claims, here.