Brazil's Unfolding Crisis

Richard Nixon was reëlected overwhelmingly in November, 1972, and resigned in August, 1974. Dilma Rousseff, the President of Brazil, looks to be on about the same schedule: reëlected (not overwhelmingly) in October, 2014, and in such deep peril a year and a half later that it seems unlikely that she will finish her term. This week, the largest party in her governing coalition, the Partido do Movimento Democrático Brasileiro, or Democratic Movement Party, voted to leave the government, which i...