West looks for 'regime change' in Brazil by impeachment

Press TV has conducted an interview with Ramin Vahidzadeh, a political commentator from Tehran, about attempts made by the Brazilian opposition lawmakers to attract votes for impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff.

The following is a rough transcription of the interview.

Press TV: The situation is live and it is essentially developing as we’re having this conversation, but how do you basically characterize the opposition right now voting for the impeachment of the embattled President Dilma Rousseff? Are they simply, as some people might say, the well-to-do and rich ruling class, who have of all of a sudden become excessively unsettled by the president’s socialist tendencies or there’s more to it than meets the eye?

Vahidzadeh: Well, there certainly is more to it, because many of the lawmakers that are voting right now are from left-wing parties, which inclusively were allies to Ms. Rousseff. Right now the thing that is going on in Brazil is better saying that it’s a war for power. Every faction wants to gain the power after more than a decade of ruling of the Workers Party in Brazil, which has been very powerful, because they didn’t have many obstacles that they couldn’t survive. So, right now the opposition forms are from many tendencies, from right-wing to the left-wing, that they are voting against Ms. Rousseff. However, she claims that she can secure more than 180 votes, but right now as we are seeing in the parliament it seems that’s impossible.

Press TV: Ok, and talking about, let’s say, ramifications and implications of the likely possibility of her being impeached and then taking her to the court for trying. How do you see that developing? What kind of an impact and signal is it going to have for the rest of the region, which is in a way already embattled itself, the whole region? Are there waves of socialism going on and they just might be negatively affected? What is your analysis there?

Vahidzadeh: Exactly, it would be like that because as we can see in the last years the main strategy that the right-wing parties had [gone] with it was the impeachment. We can say however that if in the 20th century the strategy were regime change with some military action and direct involving, in the 21st century, it’s by impeachment. We saw it with Paraguay, we saw it with once against Mr. Chavez, but he survived that in the referendum, and right now we are seeing it in Brazil. It’s very common right now in Latin America.

The thing is that we are seeing a shift in power, the shift between left-wing parties to the right tendencies that are mainly in favor of Capitalism and the US and their allies. Brazil was during the mandate of Mr. Lula and Ms. Rousseff one of the major countries and one of the major powers that stood against the USA for example in the Bush era by the ALCA [treaty] and after that in the scandal of espionage. Ms. Rousseff was one of the main characters that said to Obama and the US government that she doesn’t like involving in these scandals. So, a great Brazil with the left tendency is going to shrink because of this main fighting against the mainstream, which were led by the US and their allies. 

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