Inside Story - Was president Dilma Rousseff's impeachment a coup?

The twists and turns of Brazil's political drama have been compared to the TV series, House of Cards.

Deeply unpopular leader Dilma Rousseff has been suspended from office and taking her place as interim president is a man perhaps even more polarising than her.

Michel Temer is seen as serving the interests of Brazil's business elite and despite calling for unity, he's appointed a cabinet made up entirely of white men.

President Dilma Rousseff has called her suspension from office a "coup" and has vowed to fight back.

But is Michel Temer the right leader to lift Brazil out of its political crisis? And was Rousseff's impeachment a democratic move or a coup?

Presenter: Fauziah Ibrahim

Guests:

Rodrigo Nunes - Political Analyst and Lecturer at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro.

Shannon Sims - Journalist who focuses on Brazilian politics and the Olympics.

Claudio Couto - Political Scientist and Associate Professor at the Getulio Vargas Foundation.

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[ruvstof]

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[digaoap]

No it was not. All process was based on brazilian law and with support of supreme court of brazil.

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[amthobbes]

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[pedrotrus]

There is NO coup in Brazil. Everything is going under the highest court knowlege, and it is constitutional.

[chisapic]

21:30 Globo TV manufactured consent for the coup.

[augustusschlickmann]

She just labeled as Black all the Ashkenazi and Sephardi Jews, the Anusim, the Levantine Arabs, mostly Christian Lebanese and Syrian, the Gypsies or Roma people, 1.8 million Japanese people, the largest Japanese diaspora outside Japan, Koreans, Chinese, Vietnamese, Afghans, Indonesians, East Indians, Indigenous peoples and Caboclo or Mestizo/Castizo people, which are people whose DNA span from 75 to 90% European DNA markers with the rest being Native American admixture, which is the reason they have the same phenotype as Jessica Alba and Taylor Lautner. That just shows you how accurate international press is! They have no idea what they are talking about. The impeachment procedure is a legal tool, checks and balances. And it is supervised by the Supreme Court.

[KleberebelK]

I dunno why people are discussing if she is guilty or not, when they are all flour from the same bag...what we need is a completely change in the way politcs is made in Brazil, and that will only be possible if tha "Lava Jato" receive total support. It can't be burried or forgotten.

[BritishMoralHQ]

the news presenter knows that she was originally hired for her looks...but now it's gone...poor her.

[SmartRobot-wcfb]

51*/* of Brazil's population is not black (black are only around 7 million people), but MIXED...many of those mixed people have in fact african ancestry (even if it is way back)...BUT not all of them do have...many are solely mixed from white and native...others between native and black...or black and white...or all of them together...

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