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...piece was the most requested number on a local radio station. Last month the government forced the station to take it off the air. Gabriel's rap is called I'm Happy (I Killed the President), a fantasy in which he describes how he assassinated former President Fernando Collor with a bullet through the eye. They don't cook with...
IMPEACHING A CHIEF EXECUTIVE IS A DEADLY SERIous matter, so it would have been understandable if Brazilians had felt dejected after the lower house of Congress ousted President Fernando Collor de Mello. Instead, the country exploded into cheers and celebrated the impeachment as a victory for democracy. Before the Congress building in Brasilia, a crowd of 100,000, many of them young people, hugged and danced...
...impeachment vote in the Chamber of Deputies was a lopsided 441 to 38. Collor is suspended for up to six months, during which the Senate will try him on charges of corruption. Vice President Itamar Franco, a longtime Senator, became Acting President. Collor did not appear publicly after the vote, but Justice Minister Celio Borja said the President took the news "with great dignity." He said Collor does not plan to step down permanently unless the Senate finds him guilty, an outcome most political leaders now think is inevitable. In fact, Collor's trials may not end in the Senate...
...first presidential impeachment in Brazil's 103-year history as a republic. The country had held high hopes for Collor, 43, who was elected in 1989 on an anticorruption platform. But last August a special congressional commission found strong evidence that Collor had accepted $6.5 million from a slush fund operated by his former campaign fund raiser. Now the country's hopes -- well founded so far -- are for an orderly transition of power...
...cobbling together a government and reviving a paralyzed economy. Nonetheless, Latin America's biggest nation would display one sign of a mature democracy: for the first time resolving a government crisis by strict constitutional means, without military intervention. But it is too early for relief that "the system works." Collor might confuse matters by trying to exercise some authority as a shadow president while suspended. And there is a slim chance that he will beat the impeachment vote. Given his massive unpopularity, that could trigger chaos in the streets...