Accuracy in Media

From the Zika virus to a behind-schedule construction effort to dirty and sewage-filled waters and the ongoing impeachment procedures against Brazil’s elected president Dilma Rousseff, this Rio Olympics is looking to be a giant disaster. Add in this financial crisis for the host city and this is almost like Sochi in Russia. Photo by Mark_JH

The country’s senate body voted overwhelmingly (55-22 vote) to suspend Dilma Rousseff as president and make her appear in an impeachment trial over corruption charges.

A potential impeachment vote of Brazil’s president, water cleanliness and safety issues at the water event venues, the Zika virus… why are the Olympics being held there? Photo by marcelo_valente

From Fox News: The 367-137 vote late Sunday in favor of impeachment was well over the 342 votes needed for the proceedings to move ahead to the Senate, where a majority vote will determine whether Rousseff is put on trial and suspended while Vice President Michel Temer temporarily takes over. The exact date of the […]

Rousseff may be impeached by the country’s Congress now that a major political party has left her coalition government. Photo by Agência Brasil

WASHINGTON — Incumbent Dilma Rousseff won a very close re-election battle, but potential investors and the markets themselves disagreed with the outcome. Rousseff won with only 51.6% of the vote, which was a run-off vote. Reuters reported investors and the business community doubt her ability to revive the economy that has regressed under her watch. The […]

WASHINGTON — Brazil’s incumbent president, Dilma Rousseff, will probably win her second four-year term if polls hold true on election day. Reuters reported that Rousseff, facing internal strife over significant poverty, widespread protests and the NSA spying scandal, is ahead of her opponents. She has 47% of the vote in a recent poll by the […]

WASHINGTON — Facing the “disastrous” rollout of his so-called signature achievement ObamaCare, President Barack Obama conducted another political pivot to another issue. Reuters reported that Obama will announce a plan to lure foreign investors to the United States in order to jump start the flagging U.S. economy. The federal government will now reach into a […]

WASHINGTON — Soon after the Obama administration admitted it spied on Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, Brazil is threatening to impose severe restrictions on American-based Internet companies. Reuters reported that Facebook, Twitter and Google will be directly affected by these restrictions and in response, Facebook offered some social media tips. Facebook’s global manager of politics and […]

WASHINGTON — U.S. ties with allies continue to deteriorates under President Barack Obama, as recent events demonstrate. Reuters reported that Brazil is the latest country to sever ties with the U.S. after Obama failed to make sufficient concessions and apologies for his National Security Agency (NSA) spying program. In a Brazilian television segment, it was […]