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Weekly Report - 11 August 2016 (WR-16-31)
BRAZIL: Rousseff closer to exit door
With her formal impeachment trial expected within a fortnight, Brazil’s suspended president, Dilma Rousseff, has already packed her bags and plans to take some time out, with trips to neighbouring Uruguay and Chile in South America and perhaps also to central Europe, from where she traces her family roots. But Rousseff will not want to be away from her Porto Alegre home for too long, according to friends, not because of any planned political comeback, but because she cannot bear to be without her two grandchildren.
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