Time for Brazil to heal
Add BT as a preferred sourceIN THE middle of these Olympic Games, Brazil has finally decided to impeach its president in a formal Senate process. Well away from triumphs in the swimming pool and on the volleyball court in Rio, the politicians in Brasilia have signalled that the country's political crisis must end - and the country's economic recovery begin.
The impeachment adds a powerful political backcloth to an Olympics so far mercifully free of forecast mayhem and chaos.
A centre-right senator who voted overnight to impeach suspended President Dilma Rousseff for embellishing economic statistics and taking unauthorised funds to win re-election in 2014, said: "The two are so intertwined, the economics and the politics. We cry out for an end to the impeachment process so that we can confront our economic nightmare. "We can turn the country around, but only when we know who is president."
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