Brazil Impeachment Battle Rests on Handful of Votes

With neither side commanding enough firm support in the battle to impeach Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff, the outcome of a crucial vote in Congress this month may boil down to a handful of no-shows and abstentions. Brazil's lower house is due to vote within two weeks on a committee report about whether Rousseff, the country's first female president, broke fiscal laws to secure her 2014 re-election. With her allies wavering following mass protests against her scandal-hit...

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