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Hybrid War Hyenas Tear Brazil Apart
Pepe Escobar, in Russia Insider, Moscow, 18 April 2016
The gloomy and repulsive night when the female President of the 7th largest
economy in the world was the prey of choice fed to a lynch mob of hyenas in
a drab, provincial Circus Maximus will forever live in infamy.
By 367 votes for and 137 against, the impeachment/coup/regime change-light
drive against Dilma Rousseff cleared the Brazilian Congressional circus and
will now go to the Senate, where a "special commission" will be set up. If
approved, Rousseff will then be sidelined for 180 days and a low rent
tropical Brutus, Vice-President Michel Temer, will ascend to power until the
Senate's final verdict.
This lowly farce should serve as a wake-up call not only to the BRICS but to
the whole Global South. Who needs NATO, R2P ("responsibility to protect") or
"moderate rebels" when you can get your regime change just by tweaking a
nation's political/judicial system?
The Brazilian Supreme Court has not analyzed the merit of the matter - at
least not yet. There's no solid evidence anywhere Rousseff committed a
"crime of responsibility"; she did what every American President since
Reagan has done - not to mention leaders all across the world; along with
her Vice-President, the lowly Brutus, Rousseff got slightly creative with
the federal budget's numbers.
The coup has been sponsored by a certified crook, president of the lower
house Eduardo Cunha; holder of 11 illegal accounts in Switzerland, listed in
the Panama Papers and under investigation by the Supreme Court. Instead of
lording over near-illiterate hyenas in a racist, largely crypto-fascist
circus, he should be behind bars. It beggars belief that the Supreme Court
has not turbo-charged legal action against Cunha. The secret of his power
over the circus is a gigantic corruption scheme lasting many years featuring
companies/corporations contributing to his and others' campaign financing.
And that's the beauty of a soft coup/regime change-light/color revolution
chapter of Hybrid War when staged in such a dynamically creative nation such
as Brazil. The hall of mirrors yields a political simulacrum that would have
driven deconstructionists Jean Baudrillard and Umberto Eco, if alive, green
with envy; a Congress crammed with fools/patsies/traitors/crooks who are
already being investigated for corruption has conspired to depose a
President who is not under any formal corruption investigation - and has not
committed any "crime of responsibility".
The neoliberal restoration
Still, without a popular vote, the - massively rejected - tropical Brutus
twins, Temer and Cunha, will find it impossible to govern, even though they
would perfectly incarnate the project of the - immensely arrogant/ignorant -
Brazilian elites; a neoliberal triumph, with Brazilian "democracy" trampled
down six feet under.
It's impossible to understand what happened at the Circus Maximus this
Sunday without knowing there's a gaggle of Brazilian political parties that
are seriously threatened by the non-stop overspill of the Car Wash
corruption investigation. To ensure their survival, Car Wash must be
"suspended"; and it will, under the bogus "national unity" proposed by lowly
Brutus Temer.
But first, Car Wash must produce a high-profile scalp. And that has to be
Lula in jail - compared to which the crucifixion of Rousseff is an Aesop
fable. Corporate media, led by the noxious Globo empire, would hail it as
the ultimate victory, and nobody would care about Car Wash's enforced
retirement.
The 54 million-plus who voted for Rousseff's reelection in 2014 voted wrong.
The overall "project" is a government without vote and without people; a
Brazilian-style parliamentary system, without bothering with pesky
"elections" and crucially, including very "generous" campaign financing
flexibility not bound to incriminate powerful companies/corporations.
In a nutshell, the ultimate aim is to perfectly "align" the Brazilian
Executive, Legislative, Judiciary and corporate media interests. Democracy
is for suckers. Brazilian elites remote controlling the hyenas know very
well that if Lula runs again in 2018, he will win.
And Lula has already warned; he won't buy any "national unity" crap, he'll
be back in the streets fighting whatever illegitimate government pops up.
We're now open for plundering
As it stands, Rousseff runs the risk of becoming the first major casualty of
the NSA-originated, two-year-long Car Wash investigation. The President,
admittedly an incompetent economic manager and lacking the right stuff of a
master politician, believed that Car Wash - which practically prevented her
from governing - would not reach her because she is personally honest. Yet
Car Wash's not so hidden agenda was always regime change. Who cares if in
the process the nation is left on the verge of being controlled exactly by
many of those indicted by the anti-corruption drive?
Lowly Brutus Temer - a vanity case version of Argentina's Macri - is the
perfect conduit for the implementation of regime change. He represents the
powerful banking lobby, the powerful agribusiness lobby and the powerful
federation of industries in Brazil's economic leader, the state of Sao
Paulo.
The neo-developmentalist project for Latin America - uniting at least some
of the local elites, invested in developing internal markets, in association
with the working classes - is now dead, because what may be defined as
sub-hegemonic, or peripheral, capitalism is mired in crisis after the 2008
Wall Street-provoked debacle. What's left is just neoliberal restoration.
TINA ("there is no alternative"). This implies, in the Brazilian case, the
savage reversion of Lula's legacy; social policies, technological policies,
the drive to globally expand large, competitive Brazilian companies, more
public universities, better salaries.
In a message to the nation, Brutus Temer admitted as much; "hope" after
impeachment will be absolutely swell for "foreign investment", as in let
them plunder the colony at will; back to the trademark history of Brazil
since 1500.
So Wall Street, US Big Oil and the proverbial "American interests" win this
round at the circus - thanks to the, once again proverbial, vassal/comprador
elites. Chevron execs are already salivating with the prospect of laying
their hands on the pre-salt oil deposits; that was already promised by a
trusted vassal in the Brazilian opposition.
The coup goes on. The real hyenas haven't yet pounced. So it's far from
over.
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