Brazilian Senate Approves the Indictment Against Dilma and the Impeachment Approaches the Final Phase

The final trial, which will be carried out in the last days of August, will define the destiny of the Brazilian democracy.

By 59 votes against 21, the Senate approved last Tuesday (August 10, 2016) the rapporteur of Senator Antonio Anastasia (PSDB-MG), which validates the denounce against President Dilma Rousseff for a liability crime. Now Dilma is going to final trial by the plenary of the Senate.

The MST condemns massacre on Guarani Kaiowa lands in the state of Mato Grosso.

“The sugar cane, beef and soy of Mato Grosso are stained with the blood of the indigenous”, declares one passage of the statement.

Last Friday the MST released a statement vehemently condemning the massacre committed against the Guarani and Kaiowa community in the interior of South Mato Grosso in which 20 people suffered gunshot wounds and an indigenous man, Clodiodi Aquileu Rodrigues, was brutally murdered.

MST Statement on Harassment of Fighters for Agrarian Reform in Goias

In the context of the resurgence of conservative forces and the ongoing persecution of movements for democratic struggle, the MST in the state of Goiás has denounced the establishment of a climate of criminalization of its activists. On Monday May 30, an activist for Agrarian Reform Jose Valdir Misnerovicz was arrested in Veranópolis (RS) in an operation triggered by the Civil Police of Goiás and coordinated with the Police of Rio Grande do Sul.

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