Happy 74th to Dilma Rousseff, former accountant for VAR-Palmares, political prisoner, energy technocrat, Chief of Staff to President Lula, and Brazil's 1st woman president - illegally impeached in a US-backed effort to turn Brazil's petroleum over to imperialist multinationals. 
The charge used to impeach her, fiscal pedaling - which she was later exonerated from - was not legally categorized as an impeachable offense in Brazil. It was legalized by the Senate 2 days after she left office and is currently practiced by the Bolsonaro administration.
In 2016, +- 8% of Brazil's pre-salt petroleum reserves (among the world's largest) were owned by foreign companies. By 2019, 75% had been auctioned off at pennies on the dollar. Unlike in the Middle East, the US didn't have to invade, thanks to Brazil's comprador bourgeoisie.
During the coup, the Koch Brothers' Atlas Network-connected MBL group flooded the web w/ so much misogyny about Rousseff that people have done Phd research on it. The 4 most common words to describe here were: crazy, prostitute, disgusting and jackass. brasildefato.com.br/2020/01/06/lou…
Amidst this wave of Koch-brothers backed character assassination, imperialist media actors like Guardian dishonestly portrayed MBL (Free Brazil Movement) as homegrown "activists" who happened to be Rand Paul fans - as if anyone in Brazil would have known who Rand Paul was.
More on Guardian's ridiculous fluff piece on MBL: they didn't actually walk to Brasilia. After walking a few miles, these "anti-corruption activists" arrived in Congress and joyfully met with a rogues gallery of some of the most corrupt politicians in Brazilian history.
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