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BRAZILIAN Congress Speaker Eduardo Cunha — who led the legislative coup against suspended President Dilma Rousseff — quit on Thursday over corruption allegations.
The turncoat Chamber of Deputies president wept as he read out his resignation letter to journalists, surrounded by his fellow putschists.
“I have suffered and continue to suffer persecution,” Mr Cunha claimed. “I’m paying a high price for initiating the impeachment process.”
Newly revealed documents reveal that MI5 taught Brazilian secret police the techniques deployed by the 1964-85 military dictatorship in horrific prisons like Rio de Janeiro’s House of Death. SARA VIVACQUA reports
Huge protests against corruption and preventable deaths during flooding have rocked the government — the masses are not likely to be able to take direct control in their own interests yet, writes KENNY COYLE, but it’s a promising show of people power
