Brazil’s Supreme Court suspended Eduardo Cunha, the powerful lawmaker at the center of efforts to impeach President Dilma Rousseff, on grounds he tried to obstruct a probe into his alleged corruption. This is not expected to change the momentum against Rousseff, however. The speaker of Brazil’s lower house of Congress is the architect of the impeachment drive expected to force Rousseff to step aside from office. Despite facing criminal charges including bribery and hiding money in Swiss bank accounts, Cunha has survived months of attempts by prosecutors and a congressional ethics committee to see him brought to justice.
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