Brazil Goes From Crisis to Crisis as Impeachment Bid Begins
- Lower house speaker accepted impeachment plea Wednesday night
- Rousseff's job at risk as charges could lead to her ouster
Rousseff's Job at Risk, Charges Could Lead to Her Ouster
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Even in Brazil, a country that is no stranger to crisis, the recent, rapid-fire succession of financial, economic and political blows has been breathtaking.
After a week in which the nation’s top young financier was thrown in jail alongside a senator -- pushing his bank into a struggle for survival -- and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. warned the economy was slipping into a full-blown depression, impeachment proceedings were initiated late Wednesday against President Dilma Rousseff.