President Dilma Rousseff was impeached due to breaking budgetary laws.
President Dilma Rousseff was impeached due to breaking budgetary laws.
Brazil’s first female president stripped of duties in country’s first impeachment in 24 years
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Senators voted to remove her from office Wednesday after hours-long sessions.
Supporters of Dilma Rousseff stage protests as Brazil's first female president presents her defense at an impeachment trial in the Senate.
Dilma Rousseff, Brazilian politician who in 2011 became the country’s first female president. She was elected in 2011 but impeached and removed from office in 2016. Her ouster came amid various scandals, including a kickback scheme involving Petrobas. Learn more about Rousseff’s life and career.
The lower house of Congress voted to impeach Rousseff.
Brazil's ruling coalition lacks the votes in the Senate to defeat a request to remove left-leaning President Dilma Rousseff from office if it is approved by the lower house, a senior senator in the coalition's largest party said on Sunday.
A history-making Sunday, as Brazil dooms their first female president.
The takeover has been so inept, and has inadvertently revealed so much of its own corruption, that popular opinion is turning against what is now widely described as a coup d'etat.
First female president of Brazil suspended after senate votes to put her on trial for illegal financing
Rousseff - the country's first female president - was accused of illegally using money from state banks to boost public spending in order to patch budget holes in 2014, masking Brazil's problems.
The impeachment trial against the nation’s first female leader ends 13 years of rule by the Workers Party
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The 2,000-page document bring to light a history of torture, executions and disappearances during the 1964-1985 military dictatorship. An amnesty law means no one has been punished for their role.
Dilma, contrary to everything that some people expect of a woman, did not cry, did not lose her temper, did not throw a fit. She worked firmly and seriously. She did not act "like a little girl."
Structural flaws in the political system create some really bad incentives.
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Why are Brazil’s politicians ousting Rousseff from the presidency, what is Operation Car Wash, and who is implicated in the corruption investigation?
