Brazil’s President Rousseff faces impeachment

By Bill Van Auken Brazil’s Workers Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores–PT) President Dilma Rousseff is facing the initiation of congressional impeachment proceedings under conditions in which the country’s economy is sinking into a slump without precedent since the Great Depression of the 1930s. Eduardo Cunha, the powerful speaker of the Chamber of Deputies, the Brazilian Congress’ lower … Continue reading Brazil’s President Rousseff faces impeachment