International Bankers’ Coup Against Rousseff in Brazil Moves Forward

Brazil’s Senate was embroiled Wednesday in a 15-hour session of speeches and grand-standing, after which a vote was to be taken on proceeding with the impeachment against President Dilma Rousseff. It was expected that the needed simple majority would be achieved by those favoring impeachment. Dilma would then hand over power on May 12 to VP Michel Temer for the duration of the impeachment trial, which can last up to 180 days.

With Dilma out of the way, the trans-Atlantic financial vultures will descend on Brazil in droves, to both knock the “B” out of the BRICS and to use this British Empire “Clean Hands” operation to dismember the country’s relatively advanced scientific, technological, and industrial capabilities.

Earlier this week, Judge Sergio Moro—who reportedly got most of his hot “anti-corruption” leads from the NSA intercepts of top Brazilian politicians (including President Rousseff herself) and businessmen, which Edward Snowden denounced in 2013—ordered the arrest for questioning of nationalist former Finance Minister Guido Mantega, for alleged corruption extending from Petrobras into the all-important BNDES (National Economic and Social Development Bank). BNDES for decades has been the center of national directed credit for infrastructure, as well as for many of the more recent deals that are in the works with China. Wall Street and the City of London have been trying to privatize BNDES for decades.

But tellingly, Tuesday, the Defense Minister of Brazil signed an agreement for cooperation with BNDES for “technical cooperation” for developing a defense industrial base in Brazil. This is a major policy message coming from the still-powerful military-science-industry institutions of Brazil. But it will not be sufficient to stop the assault unless and until Dilma and her allies identify that what is underway is not just a coup (which they have stated), but an international bankers’ coup as part of the British Empire’s assault on all the BRICS, Russia and China included, and join the international efforts to annihilate that Empire once and for all. So far, Dilma has stuck to a strictly national narrative  in a display of typically Brazilian foolish pragmatism.

To be watched over coming days: Judge Moro is really squeezing the multi-millionaire scion of the Odebrecht family (of the huge, international construction engineering firm of the same name) who is in jail for 19 years, offering to cut his sentence in half if he turns state’s evidence against BNDES. Also to be watched: The head of the OAS, Luis Almagro, continues to raise doubts about the legality of the whole Brazilian impeachment process, most recently announcing that he will seek the legal opinion of the OAS-linked Inter-American Human Rights Court. This indicates that there is pressure coming for other countries in Ibero-America to do something about the flagrant coup d’etat underway in Brazil. As Sancho Panza famously said: When you see your neighbor being shaved, its time to wet-down your own whiskers.