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Weekly Report - 12 November 2015 (WR-15-45)
BRAZIL: Cunha’s fate hangs in the balance
Open contempt for the speaker of the federal lower chamber of congress, Eduardo Cunha, is no longer limited to the spirited leftists who took to the streets on 8 November, demanding his ouster, as well as an end to austerity. Nor is it limited to the student activists who showered Cunha with a bundle of fake dollar bills during a live television interview the previous week. Now, even those most committed to the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff, the prerogative of the speaker, are distancing themselves from Cunha in the wake of mounting evidence of his corruption and increasingly implausible excuses for his wealth. Nevertheless, it is by no means guaranteed that the ethics committee that is due to decide his fate will opt to expel him from the chamber.
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