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WORLD NEWSThursday 25 August 2016
Brazil: Caribbean Briefs
Rio Olympics over, final decision on president looms Canadian slain at
home in DR resort
PETER PRENGAMAN Brazil’s suspended President Dilma Rousseff speaks on the process of impeachment during a press town La Romana
MAURICIO SAVARESE conference for foreign correspondents, at the official residence Alvorada Palace, in Brasilia, Bra-
Associated Press zil. Just days after the closing ceremony of the Rio Olympics, Brazilian senators are about to de- Â
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — cide whether to permanently remove Rousseff from office. SANTO DOMINGO, Domini-
The last medals have been can Republic (AP) A police
handed out, the athletes (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres) spokesman in the Domini-
have all gone home and can Republic says an el-
the fireworks at Rio de Ja- Rousseff’s opponents ar- port for Rousseff. Among ficials are also in investiga- derly Canadian man has
neiro’s Maracana stadium gue that she used sleight them were actor Danny tors’ sights. The probe has been killed at his home in a
are fading into memory. of hand budgeting to mask Glover, film director Oli- blown the lid off a political resort town along the Ca-
Now Brazil’s real drama the depth of government ver Stone, linguist Noam culture of corruption that ribbean coast.
begins. deficits and ultimately ex- Chomsky, fashion designer spans the ideological spec- Spokesman Nelson Rosa-
Just days after the closing acerbated the growing Vivienne Westwood, ac- trum: About 60 percent of rio says 81-year-old John
ceremony of the Rio Olym- economic crisis, which has tor Viggo Mortensen and lawmakers in the Senate Verne Ward was found
pics, Brazilian senators are led to 10 percent inflation, composer Brian Eno. and lower house are be- dead Wednesday from
about to decide whether daily announcements of “The legal basis for the ing investigated for vari- apparent stab wounds at
to permanently remove layoffs and repeated cred- ongoing impeachment is ous crimes, many related his house on the outskirts of
President Dilma Rousseff it downgrades from ratings widely contested and there to graft and the Petrobras La Romana.
from office, the climax of a agencies. Brazil’s first fe- is compelling evidence scandal. Rousseff has never No suspects are in cus-
months-long political bat- male president denies any showing that key promot- been personally implicat- tody and the motive is un-
tle that has laid bare deep wrongdoing, pointing out ers of the impeachment ed, but her detractors say known. Ward’s hometown
polarization in Latin Ameri- that previous presidents campaign are seeking to she must have known what in Canada was unknown
ca’s largest nation. used similar accounting remove the president to was happening and bears but authorities said he had
The Aug. 5-21 Summer measures. Rousseff alleges stop the corruption inves- responsibility. She refused been living in La Romana.
Games were a welcome that something more nefar- tigations that they them- to block the investigations His body was found by a
distraction for many Brazil- ious is at play: a bloodless selves are implicated in,†even as she paid a steep friend and fellow Cana-
ians angry over endemic “coup†by corrupt legisla- the letter said. But much political price through her dian.
corruption and an emerg- tors who want to oust her of the alleged graft hap- impeachment, saying it is At least five foreign visi-
ing economy that has so they can water down pened over the 13 years a process that Brazil badly tors have been killed so far
gone from analysts’ darling a wide-ranging investiga- that Rousseff’s left-leaning needs to go through. this year in different tour-
to severe recession amid its tion into billions of dollars Workers’ Party has been in The interim government ist zones of the Dominican
worst financial crisis in de- in kickbacks at the state oil power. Several business- that stepped in for her has Republic.
cades. Street parties erupt- company, Petrobras. men and top politicians also been stung, with three
ed when their beloved A letter signed by 22 in- have been jailed, including Cabinet ministers forced to Ex-USVI senator
soccer team beat Germa- ternational artists and in- some connected to Rous- resign right after taking of- extradited from
ny to win gold, a measure tellectuals was published seff’s government, and a fice due to corruption alle- Italy over fraudÂ
of redemption after be- Wednesday voicing sup- number of opposition of- gations. q
ing humiliated 7-1 by the ST. THOMAS, U.S. Virgin Is-
Germans in the World Cup lands (AP) — The U.S. Jus-
semifinal two years ago. tice Department says a for-
With the Olympic bash mer member of the Virgin
over, “we return to the divi- Islands Senate has been
sions, to the fighting,†said extradited from Italy to
Fabiano Angelico, a po- face corruption charges
litical consultant based in in the Caribbean territory.
Sao Paulo. On Thursday, Former Sen. Wayne James
the Senate begins the final was charged in an Octo-
phase of the trial of Rous- ber 2015 indictment with
seff, who was suspended in wire fraud and embezzle-
May for allegedly breaking ment from a federal pro-
fiscal rules in managing the gram. He was arrested in
federal budget. Several Modena, Italy, in June and
days of deliberations, in- extradited to the U.S. on
cluding an address to law- Wednesday.
makers by Rousseff herself,
will culminate in a defini- The 55-year-old James
tive vote expected early served one term in the ter-
next week. ritorial legislature from 2009
to 2011. q
