Why Brazil's Crisis Could Get Worse

With soccer-style cheering and a shower of confetti on Sunday, Brazil's Congress voted to impeach President Dilma Rousseff. Yet despite the wishful thinking of legislators and financial markets alike, there is a high risk that the country's crisis will still get worse before it gets better.

Rousseff, a 68-year-old leftist who spent three years in prison under a military regime in the 1970s, has vowed not to go quietly. Because of the rules of impeachment in Brazil, she will likely be President for at least another few weeks -- and it could be as late as November until she is definitively removed from office.

That's a recipe for political problems, especially since Rousseff's Workers' Party still has a hard core of support from roughly a fifth of Brazilians. Many of them belong to labor unions, social movements and other groups that will decry any future government as the illegitimate product of a "coup." These groups have the organizational power to disrupt society with strikes, protests and roadblocks....

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