It seems as though Brazil can’t get through a single day without some piece of political news or economic data creating confusion and turmoil.
Last weekend, millions of Brazilians took to the streets to call for the ouster of President Dilma Rousseff whose political career and legacy hang in the balance.
Authored by Michael Klare via TomDispatch.com,
Authored by Pepe Escobar, originally posted at SputnikNews.com,
Imagine one of the most admired global political leaders in modern history taken from his apartment at 6 am by armed Brazilian Federal Police agents and forced into an unmarked car to the Sao Paulo airport to be interrogated for almost four hours in connection with a billion dollar corruption scandal involving the giant state oil company Petrobras.
The Brazilian Real has soared over 2.5% this morning after the shocking news that former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (Lula) has been detained by the federal police. The long-running inquiry, known as Operation Car Wash, stems from accusations of corruption and money-laundering at Petrobras and police, who raided Lula's home near Sao Paulo, say they now have evidence that he received illicit benefits from the kick-back scheme with Petrobras "enriching himself and the treasury of his political group."
Having "nailed it" with the feces-infused water for the Olympics, killed the golden goose of its economy, and unable to crackdown on widespread corruption, Brazil now has a 'great' idea to solve its utterly disastrous Zika epidemic... by zapping millions of male mosquitoes with gamma rays from drones to sterilise them.