15-04-2016 16:15 via news.yahoo.com

Brazil Congress debates impeachment, government brands it a 'violent act'

By Maria Carolina Marcello BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's attorney general warned Congress on Friday that impeaching President Dilma Rousseff would mark an unprecedented break with democracy as legislators opened a three-day debate in the lower house on whether to recommend she be tried by the Senate. In acrimonious exchanges on the floor of Congress, pro-impeachment lawmakers chanted "Dilma Out" at the start of a debate set to culminate with a vote on Sunday that Rousseff is widely expected to l
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