Brazil’s lower house speaker breaks with government

President of the Chamber of Deputies of Brazil Eduardo Cunha is seen at the Chamber of Deputies in Brasilia May 12, 2015. REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino
President of the Chamber of Deputies of Brazil Eduardo Cunha is seen at the Chamber of Deputies in Brasilia May 12, 2015. REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino

The speaker of Brazil’s lower house of Congress, Eduardo Cunha, broke with the government of President Dilma Rousseff on Friday over corruption allegations, deepening a political crisis in Latin America’s largest economy.

Cunha accused Rousseff’s government and prosecutor general Rodrigo Janot of conspiring to incriminate him in a widening corruption scandal at state-run oil firm Petrobras in which he is being investigated for taking bribes.

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