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Is Dilma Rousseff's impeachment a coup or Brazil's window of opportunity?

  • Written by The Conversation Contributor

“Brazil’s young democracy is being subjected to a coup,” said Dilma Rousseff after the Senate on May 12 voted 55 to 22 to remove her as president and move forward with impeachment.

Is this really a coup, as Rousseff and her supporters believe? Coups usually entail the violent overthrow of a government or a trampling of...

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