In Brazil, Ministers Fall and the Press Smells Blood: Dom Phillips

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A reshuffled Cabinet in the first few months of a new administration isn't usually cause for alarm. But President Dilma Rousseff has lost her chief of staff, four other Cabinet ministers, and dozens of government staffers since taking office in January -- and the press is smelling blood.

Newspapers like the Folha de Sao Paulo and its rival the Estado de Sao Paulo won't leave the subject alone.