Brazil's House Speaker Won't Fall Without Dragging His Colleagues with Him

[Judi Lynn]

Brazil's House Speaker Won't Fall Without Dragging His Colleagues with Him
Pedro Izquierdo and Sophie-Anne Baril 18 June 2016

On June 14, Brazil's congressional ethics committee voted to remove Deputy Eduardo Cunha from his position as Lower House Speaker. This decision comes after a series of allegations accusing him of having unregulated overseas bank accounts and involvement in the Petrobras scandal.

Although a majority of the lower house of Congress must assert this decision to remove him from his position, Cunha, one of the orchestrators of President Dilma Rousseff's impeachment, still faces the possibility of arrest and prosecution by lower courts in multiple corruption cases against him.[2]

A Reuters source affirms that "Cunha is the only sitting Brazilian lawmaker to face trial in the massive bribery investigation focused on state oil company Petrobras (for) which he was indicted for receiving a US$ 5 million bribe related to contracts."[3]

Cunha's involvement in the scandal signals a warning to other politicians. Despite his singular involvement as the only lawmaker to currently face such trial, if convicted, Eduardo Cunha vows to bring other officials down with him.[4]

More:
http://www.brazzil.com/23953-brazil-s-house-speaker-won-t-fall-without-dragging-his-colleagues-with-him

[historian]

1. Brazil has always been putrid and corrupt.

The only thing which might change it is a revolution a la french or russian otherwise things will continue as usual. Having lived there for far too many years, I can ascertain to that. The average citizen is taxed to death, the bureaucracy is mind numbing and nothing is achievable unless accompanied by the usual greased palm. Sad thing is the USA is fast following in its footsteps;

[Judi Lynn]

2. Too many US Americans are totally unaware there had ever been a bloody military dictatorship there,

or that the US fully backed it, and that the same people have basically controlled Brazil since that time, and have been trying to overthrow Rousseff from the first, as well as fighting Lula every step of the way.

It has been so easy for our corporate media to simply print the planned perception molding material all these years and leave the US public completely ignorant about the rest of the world, and what part the US government has played everywhere.

What a shame.

[historian]

3. Well finally

some one who know his history! Glad to read your post. We have interfered in Iran (overthrowing a moderate muslim and replacing him with the Shah) threw out alllende in Chile and replaced him with Pinochet who then proceeded to kill over 300000 of his own people, interfered in Argentina, Guatemala, Panama, El Salvador, Greece and even provoked a war with Spain so we could steal Cuba and the Phillipines. Wont even go into Iraq toppling HUsseim who we put there in the first place. Second of all we are the biggest war mongers in the world and why? Because we love others so? Because of money - that is all this country is about which is a shame because it had the opportunity to become a shining light for the rest of the world.