With a corruption and money-laundering scandal rocking Brazil, lawmakers in the lower house of the nation’s congress have started the formal impeachment process against President Dilma Rousseff, forming a committee to look at potential charges.

From Rio, NPR’s Lourdes Garcia-Navarro reports:

“The accusations revolve around allegations that she manipulated economic data in advance of her election last year, to hide the true state of the economy.

Source: Texas Public Radio