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Venezuelan Opposition Leader Leopoldo López Sentenced to Prison Over Protest
By WILLIAM NEUMANSEPT. 10, 2015
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Leopoldo López in February. Credit Juan Barreto/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
CARACAS, Venezuela — A judge on Thursday found the Venezuelan opposition politician Leopoldo López guilty of inciting violence and other charges stemming from his leading role in a large antigovernment protest, according to government television reports.
Mr. López, a Harvard-educated former mayor of a wealthy section of Caracas, was sentenced to more than 13 years in prison, the television reports said.
Critics said the trial was politically motivated and lacked basic guarantees of due process. Lawyers for Mr. López said they were barred from presenting any witnesses or evidence at the trial.
“This has been a farce,” said José Miguel Vivanco, Americas director of Human Rights Watch, speaking by telephone from Washington. “It’s a kind of a caricature of a judicial procedure and in violation of fundamental principles of due process, of presumption of innocence.”
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The courts here have long been criticized for a lack of independence, and decisions have closely hewed to the dictates of the governing party under President Nicolás Maduro and his predecessor, Hugo Chávez.
Mr. Maduro frequently calls Mr. López a monster during televised speeches.
“This is something that happens when you have no independent judiciary,” Mr. Vivanco said.
The charges against Mr. López, the leader of a small opposition party called Popular Will, stem from a large antigovernment protest on Feb. 12 of last year, which began with a peaceful march and rally.
But after most demonstrators left, including Mr. López, a few hundred protesters lingered, throwing rocks and firebombs at police officers, soldiers and government supporters, in a seesaw street battle.
A government supporter and a student protester were fatally shot. Demonstrators threw rocks at a building occupied by the national prosecutor’s office, breaking second-story windows; several police cars were set on fire.
Mr. Maduro and other government officials quickly blamed Mr. López for the violence, although he had repeatedly called for nonviolent protest.
Mr. López turned himself in several days later, and he has been held ever since in a military prison. He was charged with arson, vandalism, inciting violence and hatred and being part of a criminal organization.
The case has drawn international attention and shined a light on the increasingly repressive actions of Mr. Maduro’s government as the country sinks deeper into economic and political crisis.
Last year, a working group of the United Nations office of the high commissioner for human rights determined that the detentions of Mr. López and another opposition politician, Daniel Ceballos, were arbitrary, and it called for their immediate release.
This year the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights expressed concern over lack of due process in the prosecution of Mr. López and Mr. Ceballos. The United States has repeatedly called for Mr. López to be released and sharply criticized his arrest and trial. Secretary of State John Kerry raised the case in a telephone call this week with the Venezuelan foreign minister, Delcy Rodríguez, officials in Washington said.
On Thursday evening, Roberta Jacobson, assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere affairs, wrote in a Twitter post that she was “deeply troubled” by Mr. López’s conviction. 
Earlier in the day, outside the courthouse, witnesses said that pro-government demonstrators had thrown rocks and bottles at a group of Mr. López’s supporters. One López sympathizer collapsed and died, apparently of a heart attack, according to witnesses.
At a rally of supporters last night, Mr. López’s wife, Lilian Tintori, said that after the judge announced the verdict her husband approached her, took her hand and said, “Give a message to Venezuela: ‘Stay calm.’ ”  
María Eugenia Díaz contributed reporting
A version of this article appears in print on September 11, 2015, on page A13 of the New York edition with the headline: Venezuelan Opposition Leader Is Sentenced to Prison Over a Protest . Order Reprints| Today's Paper|Subscribe
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A “PT”-Workers’ Party Founder ask for the destitution of the Brazilian President of the Republic





A “PT”-Workers’ Party Founder ask for the destitution of the Brazilian President of the Republic

Alan Marques - 31.jan.12 / “Folha de São Paulo” Newspaper


Helio Bicudo, one of the founders of the PT, which calls for the impeachment of President Rousseff
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Founder of the PT, the São Paulo attorney Bicudo, 93 years old, presented on Tuesday (1) the House of Representatives impeachment against President Rousseff (PT).
The document is addressed to the President of the Legislative House, Eduardo Cunha (PMDB-RJ), and was filed earlier this afternoon by the daughter of lawyer, Maria Lucia Bicudo, and the lawyer Janaina Paschoal, which also sign the request.
Because of his age and his health, the lawyer not involved in the delivery of the document. In 2010, he suffered a stroke (cerebrovascular accident) and remained hospitalized in São Paulo.
According to the daughter of Bicudo, the initiative which came from
the lawer himself and has nothing to do with political parties or movements in favor of impeachment of the president.
In the letter, the founder of PT states that the country was "plunged into deep crisis" and that the current economic situation is, in fact, a moral crisis.
He argues that the president has committed the crime of responsibility and lists, among other reasons for his removal, so-called allegedly breaking the law with a series of measures popularly called "creative accounting".
," the federal government allegedly breaking the law with a series of measures popularly called (“pedaladas fiscais”) "creative accounting" postponing the payments and use public banks to cover the debts.
"There was an intention to transmit a false idea to the nation (and also to international investors) that Brazil would be economically well and therefore would be able to maintain the programs in favor of the most vulnerable classes" he said.
The document also cites the Money Laundering Federal Police Investigation and the purchase of the Pasadena refinery by Petrobrás and says that the Federal Police have investigated people close to the president, there was the deconstruction of his "aura of competent and unblemished professional, created by marketers highly paid ".
He still remembers request of the vice president of the Supreme Electoral Court, Gilmar Mendes, to the Attorney-General to ascertain any crimes that may lead to a public prosecution.
"The Superior Electoral Court in the long and thorough process, has recorded numerous frauds, true embezzlement, initiated to ensure the re-election of the President of the Republic, with Gilmar Mendes adduced minister that if he knew previously of what you know today, not campaign accounts would be approved, "he said.
According to him, before the facts presented, it reinforced the understanding that the president “acted intentionally " because she "always show very aware of all the questions related to the energy sector, as well as those related to the economic and financial area ".
"It remains also imperative to have clear that, in fact the measure should not be misunderstood as a coup.
On the contrary, what a true Republic can not admit is that the government address all kinds of excesses, even with the end to ensure his re-election, being shielded  due to the action of other powers for the reason of  political leftwing control over the state Brazilian federal institutions, "he concludes. In (Workers' Party ) PT, the lawyer was Congressman (1991-1994) and deputy mayor of São Paulo in the mandate of the current Senator Marta Suplicy (no party-SP).
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Fundador do PT apresenta pedido de impeachment de Dilma Rousseff

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Hélio Bicudo, um dos fundadores do PT, que pede o impeachment da presidente Dilma Rousseff
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Fundador do PT, o advogado paulista Hélio Bicudo, 93, apresentou nesta terça-feira (1º) à Câmara dos Deputados pedido de impeachment contra a presidente Dilma Rousseff (PT).
O documento é endereçado ao presidente da Casa Legislativa, Eduardo Cunha (PMDB-RJ), e foi protocolado no início desta tarde pela filha do jurista, Maria Lúcia Bicudo, e pela advogada Janaina Paschoal, que também subscreve o pedido.
Por conta de sua idade e de seu estado de saúde, o advogado não participou da entrega do documento. Em 2010, ele sofreu um um AVC (Acidente Vascular Cerebral) e permaneceu internado na capital paulista.
Segundo a filha de Bicudo, a iniciativa partiu do próprio advogado e não tem relação nem com partidos políticos nem com movimentos favoráveis ao impeachment da presidente.
Na carta, o fundador do PT afirma que o país está "mergulhado em profunda crise" e que a atual situação econômica é, na verdade, uma crise moral.
Ele argumenta que a presidente cometeu crime de responsabilidade e elenca, entre outros motivos para o seu afastamento, as chamadas "pedaladas fiscais", manobras do governo federal para adiar pagamentos e usar bancos públicos para cobrir as dívidas.
"Houve uma maquiagem deliberadamente orientada a passar para a nação (e também aos investidores internacionais) a sensação de que o Brasil estaria economicamente saudável e, portanto, teria condições de manter os programas em favor das classes mais vulneráveis", disse.
O documento também cita a Operação Lava Jato e a compra da refinaria de Pasadena pela Petrobras e diz que, pela Polícia Federal ter investigado pessoas próximas à presidente, houve a desconstrução de sua "aura de profissional competente e ilibada, criada por marqueteiros muito bem pagos".
Ele ainda lembra de pedido do vice-presidente do Tribunal Superior Eleitoral, Gilmar Mendes, à Procuradoria-Geral da República para que apure eventuais crimes que possam motivar uma ação penal pública.
"O Tribunal Superior Eleitoral, em longo e minucioso processo, tem apurado inúmeras fraudes, verdadeiros estelionatos, encetados para garantir a reeleição da Presidente da República, tendo o ministro Gilmar Mendes aduzido que, se soubesse, anteriormente, do que sabe na atualidade, não estariam aprovadas as contas de campanha", afirma.
Segundo ele, diante dos fatos apresentados, é reforçado o entendimento de que a presidente "agiu com dolo" pelo fato de ela "sempre se mostrar muito consciente de todas as questões afetas ao setor de energia, bem como aquelas relacionadas à área econômica e financeira".
"Resta também imperioso que se tenha nítido que, em nenhuma medida, considerar a possibilidade de impeachment representa golpe. Muito ao contrário, o que uma verdadeira República não pode admitir é que o governante lance mão de todo tipo de desmando, até com o fim de garantir sua reeleição, ficando blindado à devida ação dos demais poderes", conclui.
No PT, o advogado foi deputado federal (1991-1994) e vice-prefeito de São Paulo no mandato da atual senadora Marta Suplicy (sem partido-SP).
 
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