Brazil: Temer Orders Military to Surround Residence of Dilma Rousseff

By teleSUR

21 May 16

Brazil's Senate vice president has denounced a siege against suspended President Dilma Rousseff ordered by the interim right-wing president.

enate-imposed Interim President Michel Temer has deployed military troops to cordon off the area surrounding the Pal�cio da Alvorada, residence of the suspended President Dilma Rousseff, Brazilian Senate Vice President Jorge Vianna said on Thursday.

Vianna said there�s a checkpoint at the Pal�cio do Jaburu, where Temer currently resides, and which is very close to Rousseff' residence in the capital of Brasilia.

�Anyone visiting President Dilma has to go through a checkpoint installed at Jaburu, with several heavily armed military (personnel)� I just made a visit to President Dilma. I was with the president of the National Congress. And we had to identify ourselves and wait a long time before getting the access,� Vianna said.

�This means that the elected president is under siege? What country is this? What provisional government is this?� the senator added.

Temer assumed the post of interim president last week following the suspension of President Dilma Rousseff, who is now facing a Senate impeachment trial.

Rousseff, along with millions of others across the country, regards the move as a coup waged by the right-wing opposition.

Despite formerly chairing the oil giant Petrobras � from which several former and current officials are linked to the corruption scandal dubbed �car wash� � Rousseff has not been formally tied to the scandal and there are no formal charges against the socialist leader.