She had to be taken down

People here were stupid enough to vote for an assassin for president

If you want to know something about Brasil in your language, see it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c019ozEzAgM

It's an interview with the most important brazilian philosopher

What i'd like to know is... the olympic games are in brazil this year right? Are those getting canceled or something?

I kinda knew this wasn't gonna end well. Knowing what the euro2004 did to Portugal, i knew there were going to be dire consequences for Brazil with not only the World cup but the olympic games.

I just didnt expect it to blow up this soon.

Events such as this(and the 2008 economic crisis in the US) are hard to fully understand while they're happening. After a generation or two, many people will have a better understanding of the issue and its impact.

I'd like to thank mai for creating this thread, and the many people who posted thoughtfully on this issue. I found the CNN link particularly helpful. For all the mockery they bring down on themselves for simulating plane crashes in their Holographic TerrorDome, they are still able to do very good reporting when they want to.

It sounds to me like Brazil is on the verge of seizing power from a slightly-corrupt president and handing it over to a convicted very-corrupt vice president, possibly for the purpose of trying to foil dozens of ongoing corruption investigations. It will be bad news for Brazil if this happens, even if it doesn't weaken the strength of the entire republic (against future dictatorships taking power).

The USA has a lot of problems with its politicians, and in some way they will probably prove even harder to root out than this style of blatant corruption because of how insidious it is. But on the other hand, this type of stuff is completely out of the question here.

It is the opposite. Vice president does not have a formal accusation (just suspects him a lot) and the president has 7 formal charges filed by the OAB(Order of Attorneys of Brazil), including that she tried to obstruct justice and ongoing corruption investigations. NYT and CNN do not help much

A few minutes of Google shows that they are all under investigation for various activities.  The fact that charges have been filed against Roussef hardly proves that she is any more guilty than the others.  For instance, I would be surprised if the senate fails to impeach Renan Calheiros on the charges standing against him there now that they must decide by open ballot instead of the secret ballot that let him off the hook on the first charge.  (The rules change being directly motivated by massive outrage that he was let off the hook.) 

It's a big mess and I sympathize with those of you who are just wishing for honest leadership.  But if this current impeachment is motivated by those who want the Lava Jato - Car Wash investigation (which Rousseff is cooperating with) to end, it will cause a lot more problems than it solves.  Be vigilant! 

That'd be my thoughts as well.

Regardless of smoke-and-mirrors that seves as an excuse for these political perturbations, when I researched the subject it seemed very fishy to me. Though I don't know much about politics in Brazil, what I do know is that today at the peak of global deflation, when assets are cheep (I mean real assets, not overpriced corporate crap of some gizmo production but some valuable assets: energy, food, minerals, roads, infrastructure etc.), it's such a good chance for a massive sell out. And that's what in fact is happening around the globe. I'm not exactly sure why Brazilians, or whoever, should be paying for these deadbeats.

If I were Brazilian, I'd be looking through the media for whatever new faces in the government have to say. The word "privatization" should be one huge red flag.

Thanks for detailed explanation. So government has been forging their fiscal reports. Basically what everyone is doing these days, be it governments or private sector just to look good, at least within the boundaries of the law, unless proved otherwise.

Ok, I got it about Dilma. Are there any policy-making speeches, sort of current state of the union that have been made by Temer or whoever from his supporters? Are there any new trends and topics in the media?

Interesting, thanks. Those videos are rather supportive of Rousseff, at least when it comes to the whole coup topic, not her presidency. I could see the guy, Glenn Greenwald of CNN, has appeared twice in those videos. Even CNN has the same stance, I wonder why. And yet the comments, if made by Brazilians, are very much anti-Rousseff, though comments on YT are hardly a statistically-correct observation.

If we forget about Rousseff (un-)popularity, do you think when it comes to the impeachment only public opinion would be pro-, anti-Rousseff, or more or less equally split? I mean how'd people reply to "Was it a coup or impeachment has followed legal procedures"?