Crucial hours for Brazil and for its president Dilma Rousseff who is trying to resist the attacks of the opposition who would like to oust her before the August Olympics. Tonight (19 hours Italian) the Chamber will vote on the impeachment of Rousseff, who is not being investigated by the judiciary but who is accused by the opposition of having manipulated budget data to her advantage. In May it will be up to the Senate to express itself on Dilma's fate.
The president, very loyal to Lula, who wanted the government to save him from arrest, cries at the coup orchestrated by a partisan judiciary and by the political opposition, but her opponents reply by saying that it is time to punish corruption and manipulation and turn the page. The risk that the country will fall into chaos and be dominated by street clashes between opposing factions is very high.
For an immediate change of political course there are also the financial markets which paradoxically see the Brazilian stock market and the real flying while the country is in full recession and in full political crisis.
