Just a remind

Hello, everyone!

I am very pleased with the feedback from you - all posts, since the birth of this blog, are being read for a lot of people, and some of them are very kind sending me e-mails. Also I already haters who keep on spamming my inbox with tons of repeated messages of hate and intolerance, but I frankly don`t give a damn - I know what my opinion is and what my arguments are, so I do not have any obligations with these dust biters.

Some people are questioning me about the differences between the word "impeachment"and its usage in Brazilian Portuguese and "impeachment" and its usage in English. Well, to Portuguese speakers, the English meaning of "impeachment" is the same as "cassação", which stands for a legal issue to take political rights off of corrupt politicians. Indeed, it's quite what happened to Demóstenes Torres (DEM/GO, which stands for Democrats for the state of Goiás) in the case involving gangster Carlinhos Cachoeira, and Roberto Jefferson (PTB/RJ, which stands for Brazilian Worker's Party for the state of Rio de Janeiro) in the Mensalão case.

However, the usage of "impeachment" as it's been used in Brazil is quite different, but not that much... Here, the impeachment process is a legislative maneuver to denounce several crimes committed by a superior political entity, such as the President of the country or the Prime Minister of the country - just like what nearly happened to Richard Nixon, in 1974, and to Bill Clinton, in 1999. These specific cases are called "impeachment" due to the usage of his term in Common Law, since their studies point this as the most extreme way to show how unsatisfied the population is with the government, so they are not regularly used in politics - for instance, the last time the "impeachment" was used in Great Britain was in 1805.

Otherwise, Latin American countries had been using this maneuver as a strategy to take bad politicians out of the main power of the government. Fernando Color de Mello, who suffered the "impeachment" in Brazil in 1992, was the first one to be convicted in this type of circumstance, but the Venezuelan president Carlos Andrés Perez was "impeached" in 1993, following his bad conduction of his second presidential turn, which was a more neoliberal one, leading to a massive discontentment by the majority of the population of this country. Perez suffered two coup attempts, but ended being convicted by his corruption crimes and was legitimately "impeached".

Clarified all doubts about the usage of this terminology, I do hope you all continue to read these articles in order to inform yourselves in a better way than these ideological newspapers and magazines. In addition, I again thank you for the positive feedback and say no words to the hatred spread by some.

Regards,
Rosa Kälin