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Brazilian Senate Votes to Impeach President Dilma Rousseff

HeadlineSep 01, 2016

The Brazilian Senate has voted to impeach the country’s democratically elected President Dilma Rousseff from office in what many are calling a coup by her right-wing political rivals. The vote was 61 to 20. Rousseff’s impeachment ends 13 years of the left-wing Workers’ Party rule in Brazil and brings to power President Michel Temer for the remaining two years of Rousseff’s term. Temer is deeply unpopular and currently under investigation himself, accused of receiving illegal campaign contributions linked to the state oil company Petrobras.

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