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Brazil's Rousseff faces impeachment in move that could bring country to a standstill
Thursday, October 1, 2015 14:12
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Mr Lima supported Ms Rousseff and her Workers’ party, the PT, because of their emphasis on social programmes. But since her re-election, Latin America’s largest economy has plunged into recession, welfare schemes are under threat from a fiscal squeeze and the PT and its ruling coalition are embroiled in a corruption scandal at state-owned oil company Petrobras regarded as the biggest in Brazil’s history.
For Mr Lima, who has just left a job in Brazil’s stalled civil construction sector, the only way to restore confidence is a change at the nation’s helm. “We have to do something in this regard and it has to be now,” says the graduate from Brazil’s elite University of São Paulo …. http://www.ft.com
Source: http://luismmx.blogspot.com/2015/10/brazils-rousseff-faces-impeachment-in.html
