Introduction

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Brazil’s lower house of Congress voted to impeach President Dilma Rousseff for allegedly using money from state-owned banks to hide a budget deficit, in order to improve her re-election prospects. But some feel that Rousseff is being unfairly scapegoated for a weak economy and targeted by lawmakers caught up in their own corruption scandals. The case now moves to the Senate for a vote.

Is Rousseff’s impeachment a much-needed crackdown on corruption or a coup by influential conservatives?

