We’re covering the calls for a Bolsonaro impeachment (and the actual chances of that happening now). The markets’ dreadful Ash Wednesday. And a new setback for Vale.
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Bolsonaro commits an impeachable offense. But will anything happen?
Jair Bolsonaro’s latest social media debacle has exposed just how politically isolated he has become in Brasília. After sharing videos promoting an anti-Congress, pro-military street demonstration, the president received attacks from all ends of the political spectrum, with the country’s longest-serving Supreme Court justice stopping just short of saying Mr. Bolsonaro committed an impeachable offense. Justice Celso de Mello said the move “shows the undignified vision of someone who is not up to the role of his office.”
Why it matters. This latest crisis could, at the very least, jeopardize the reforms backed by Economy Minister Paulo Guedes. At the worst, they could trigger an unpredictable institutional crisis.
Impeachment? Social democratic congressman Alexandre Frota—a former ally of the president’s—says he will file an impeachment request against Mr. Bolsonaro. He will base his request on Article 85 of the Constitution, which forbids the president to commit acts that threaten “the free exercise of...