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Brazil Senate Backs Spending Cap Despite Violent Protests

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Brazil's Senate on Tuesday approved a strict cap on federal spending in a first-round vote that hands a timely victory to President Michel Temer, who is struggling to restore fiscal discipline amid an economic recession and political crisis. Demonstrators protesting the austerity measure burned cars and smashed windows of government buildings with rocks outside the Congress as the senators debated the spending ceiling. The Senate voted by 61-14 to back the constitutional amendment...

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