The re-election of Dilma Rousseff as President of Brazil on Sunday defeated the British Empire’s attempt to pull Brazil out of the BRICS and South America’s integration projects, through the election of her opponent, Aecio Neves. Dilma won 51.6% of the vote, vs. Aecio’s 48.4%.

U.S. statesman Lyndon LaRouche warned earlier in the day that a victory by Neves would turn Brazil into a British colony again, and was a threat to the real interests of the United States. He was delighted with the news of Rousseff’s re-election.

The vote is a defeat of everything represented by the trans-Atlantic system. The London Economist and Financial Times campaigned vigorously for Aecio. Neves promised to re-impose economic orthodoxy in Brazil, re-align Brazil with the Anglo-American war party, and turn against the BRICS and South America, and named hedge fund speculator Arminio Fraga as his prospective Treasury Ministry, to prove his seriousness. London’s…