Brazilian Senate committee recommends to impeach Rousseff

A Brazilian Senate committee voted on Friday to recommend starting an impeachment trial against President Dilma Rousseff, who now faces being suspended from office in less than a week.

The special committee's decision was non-binding but marked the last formal stage before the full Senate votes on Wednesday on whether to put the head of state on trial. This decision followed Brazilian Lower House of Parliament voting to oust President Dilma Rousseff from power. Officially, she is accused of being involved in schemes of corruption in "Petrobras", the state oil company. However, the real reasons for her attempted ousting is Brazil's independent foreign policy and the country's active role in BRICS. It fact it is a US coup.

The main role in the campaign against Rousseff is played by the pro-US opposition leaders: former presidential candidate from the opposition Aécio Neves (Brazilian Social Democratic Party) and former president Fernando Henrique Cardoso (Brazilian Social Democratic Party) as well as former allyes of president from Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB). In the case of Rousseff's impeachment, leader of the PMDB Michel Temer, who has been the Vice-President of Brazil since 2011, will automatically become President.

In the realm of foreign policy, Rousseff, even more so than her predecessor Lula da Silva, has moved closer to Russia and China. This provoked anger from the US, which traditionally regarded Latin America as its zone of influence. The United States seeks to regain control of Latin America. To do this, it aims to receive control over the two key powers on the continent: Argentina and Brazil. In Argentina, they have already brought the stooge liberal Mauricio Macri to power; now it's Brazil's turn. This situation is reminiscent of the shift in the geopolitical balance in Europe in the 2000's. Once the "Paris-Berlin-Moscow" axis emerged in 2003, the US did its best to change the situation and sought to sweep Nicolas Sarkozy in France and Angela Merkel in Germany into power.