The Smoking Gun

[T]ranscripts [have just been] published by [Brazil's] largest newspaper, Folha de São Paulo, [revealing] secret conversations that took place in March, just weeks before the impeachment vote in the lower house took place [against the democratically elected president, Dilma Rousseff]. They show explicit plotting between the new planning minister (then-senator), Romero Jucá, and former oil executive Sergio Machado — both of whom are formal targets of the “Car Wash” corruption investigation — as they agree that removing Dilma is the only means for ending the corruption investigation.

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[According to the transcripts,] Jucá said the Brazilian military is supporting the plot.

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The second blockbuster revelation — perhaps even more significant — is Jucá’s statement that he spoke with and secured the involvement of numerous justices on Brazil’s Supreme Court, the institution that impeachment defenders have repeatedly pointed to as vesting the process with legitimacy.

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The transcripts provide proof for virtually every suspicion and accusation impeachment opponents have long expressed about those plotting to remove Dilma from office.

  The Intercept

You might want to read this entire article if you have any interest in what's happening in Brazil.  There's more information about the newly installed government of corrupt and implicated politicians as it supports the coup and its rush to make policy changes that benefit the elite right wing.

For months, supporters of Brazil’s democracy have made two arguments about the attempt to remove the country’s democratically elected president: (1) the core purpose of Dilma’s impeachment is not to stop corruption or punish lawbreaking, but rather the exact opposite: to protect the actual thieves by empowering them with Dilma’s exit, thus enabling them to kill the “Car Wash” investigation; and (2) the impeachment advocates (led by the country’s oligarchical media) have zero interest in clean government, but only in seizing power that they could never obtain democratically, in order to impose a right-wing, oligarch-serving agenda that the Brazilian population would never accept.

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[U]nlike the events of the last two weeks, these transcripts are not merely clues or signs. They are proof: proof that the prime forces behind the removal of the president understood that taking her out was the only way to save themselves and shield their own extreme corruption from accountability; proof that Brazil’s military, its dominant media outlets, and its Supreme Court were colluding in secret to ensure the removal of the democratically elected president.

So, unless those transcripts are phony, it looks like Brazil's democracy may survive the coup.

For his part, Jucá admits that these transcripts are authentic but insists it was all just a misunderstanding with his comments taken out of context.

How do you take agreeing "that removing Dilma is the only means for ending the corruption investigation" out of context and it not mean what it means?

Toast.  Stay tuned.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.