The real reason behind Dilma Rousseff’s impeachment

Why now? Because the economy has gone belly-up.
The knives are out for Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, pictured last September at the UN.
LONDON, U.K.—You couldn’t make this stuff up. On Sunday, Brazil’s lower house of congress voted to impeach President Dilma Rousseff. The charge? That she manipulated government accounts to make the deficit look smaller than it really was before the last election. But that’s ridiculous. Gov...

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