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British push for end of 'BRICS fantasy'
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, the avowed stringer for British
intelligence notorious for his role in orchestrating the slander
operation against President Bill Clinton, proclaimed in
a 7 March Telegraph article that the destabilisation of Brazilian
President Dilma Rousseff has entered a final phase,
and its aim is to break up the BRICS alliance as a whole.
Under the headline "Downfall of Brazil's Lula Marks
End of BRICS Fantasy", Evans-Pritchard maniacally trumpets
that "Brazil is the first of the BRICS quintet to break down
on so many fronts at once, but Russia and South Africa are
both in deep crisis, and China is running through $100 billion
of foreign reserves a month. Only India has the wind
in its sails. The BRICS concept has become meaningless."
With last Friday's grandstand arrest of President Rousseff's
close ally, former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (over
the Petrobras bribery scandal), Evans-Pritchard crowed that
"the drive to impeach Mrs Rousseff suddenly looks unstoppable."
He adds that the "markets" are hoping that current
Vice President Michel Temer will take over, "grasping the
nettles of austerity and reform at the head of a pro-market
government."
Evans-Pritchard has been deployed personally into São
Paulo, from where he has been writing prolifically since
the beginning of March. In a 3 March Telegraph column,
he insisted that Brazil "is heading straight into the arms of
the International Monetary Fund. The sooner this grim reality
is recognised by the country's leaders, the safer it will
be for the world."
Simultaneously, the British Crown has activated Marina
Silva in the drive to bring down the Rousseff government. Silva
is a wholly owned "green" asset of the British royal family,
who in 2008 received from Royal Consort Prince Philip
himself, founder of the murderous World Wildlife Fund
(WWF), the 'Duke of Edinburgh Conservation Award' for
her environmental achievements. Silva came third in the
first round of the 2014 presidential elections, but she only
became a presidential candidate after her running mate (she
was a vice presidential candidate), Eduardo Campos, died in
a suspicious plane crash three months before the election.
In remarks reported by Folha de S.Paulo on 6 March, Silva
not only backed the arrest of Lula da Silva, but demanded
that Rousseff and her Vice President be removed from office,
not simply by impeachment but by the Supreme Electoral
Tribunal (TSE); this, she said, would overturn the results
of the October 2014 election won by Rousseff, thus
"correcting an involuntary mistake" by the Brazilian people,
and leading to new presidential elections.
This escalation in Brazil occurs in the wake of a dramatic
shift in Argentina—a key BRICS ally—following the
election of new President Mauricio Macri. In office for little
more than three months, Macri has already committed
myriad economic crimes against the population of Argentina,
not the least of which is distancing the nation from Russia
and China in favour of normalising relations with the US
and Europe (Australian Alert Service Vol. 18, No. 9, 2 March 2016).
In addition, in a 2 March press conference in La Paz,
Bolivia's Minister to the Presidency Juan Ramón Quintana
warned of a destabilisation campaign against President
Evo Morales, the aim of which is to sabotage his government's
alliance with BRICS members China and Russia.
An alleged influence-peddling scandal, involving a former
lover and the Chinese engineering firm CAMC, is being
used to "weaken the economic integration that Bolivia
has achieved with China", www.laprensa.com reported.
"There is a geopolitical and strategic interest aimed at
reducing the intensity of Bolivia's relationship with China
and Russia, and the projects we are developing to create
a strong state in the country."
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