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LATIN AMERICAN unions have condemned attempts at a “legal and media coup” against Brazil’s left-wing government.
The UNI global executive committee said efforts to impeach President Dilma Rousseff were “a clear sign that democracy, working-class rights and Brazil’s sovereignty” were at risk.
The unions meeting in Uruguay’s capital Montevideo on Thursday said the opposition’s push for regime change would only worsen Brazil’s “political and institutional crisis.”
The meeting gave full support to Ms Rousseff and her predecessor Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
In Brazil, the parliamentary ethics committee heard evidence in the corruption probe into Speaker Eduardo Cunha, who has led the charge against the president, over a bribery scandal at state oil firm Petrobras.
Black market currency trader Leonardo Meirelles testified that he had converted $5.1 million (£3.6m) into Brazilian reals for his partner Alberto Youssef, who told him it was for Mr Cunha.