STAFF NEWS & ANALYSIS

Did Brazil’s Dilma Deserve Her Impeachment?

By Daily Bell Staff – September 03, 2016

Dilma Rousseff Learns Fiscal Crime Doesn’t Pay … At her impeachment trial this week, Brazil’s suspended president Dilma Rousseff warned of the “death of democracy,” comparing the senators trying her to the military tribunal she faced as a young woman fighting dictatorship.  The actual charges against Rousseff — which she has denied, and for which she was impeached on Wednesday — are more mundane: that she manipulated the federal budget to hide Brazil’s true economic condition, and spent money without congressional approval. Yet they point to one of Brazil’s biggest problems: the persistent abuse of state resources to advance partisan or personal fortunes, with huge costs for the country at large. – Bloomberg

Brazil’s former president, Dilma Rousseff, doubtless did manipulate the Brazilian government and economy but the