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So our Governor got judged yesterday…

Hey, everybody - James here, filling in for Jon.

I live in BrasÌlia, capital of Brazil. Our city is a Federal Distric, which means basically it's a city with the attributions of a State. Which is to explain why we have a Governor and not, say, a Mayor.

Said Governor, named Joaquim Roriz, stood trial yesterday evening, under charges of electoral crimes - Turns out he appears to have, among other things, used huge ammounts of public money to fund his last campaign, which led to his second consecutive term as Governor here.

The jury, formed by five judges of our TSE (Superior Electoral Court), decided that there was only evidence, not proof, that he had commited the crimes he was being accused of. So he was absolved.

Which means he basically got out of this one scott-free, after bullying, robbing, cheating, blackmailing and lying his way through the last elections.

I'd post a detailed report of the way this man's been destroying BrasÌlia for the past 15 years, including how the rates in poverty, violence and crime have been on a steady rise, or how he instituted an education policy that practically forces the teachers on the public system to pass all their students so BrasÌlia will look good on the National Education Reviews, but I'm too pissed off with this right now.

Of course, none of this would have happened, had the people not *voted* for the bastard in the first place.