Dilma Rousseff’s downfall won’t cure all her country’s ills

“This isn’t a coup, it’s democracy in evolution,” one opposition senator answered back.

"It is hard to overlook a degree of unfairness in this brutal downfall: Ms Rousseff never stood accused of personally benefiting from corruption (she was on trial for window-dressing state budget figures), unlike dozens of Brazilian officials and politicians – many of whom voted for her removal. That the crisis has come to this cathartic moment says perhaps as much about an “evolving” democracy as about the cynicism of some of its elites, much exposed by the Petrobras and Lavo Jato corruption investigations."


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