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Brazil’s Senate indicts Rousseff and opens impeachment trial
Brazil’s Senate voted early on Wednesday to indict President Dilma Rousseff on charges of breaking budget laws and put her on trial in an impeachment...
D-day for Brazilian president Rousseff as senate to vote on impeachment
Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff is only hours from being suspended as an impeachment trial begins on Wednesday.
D-day looms for Rousseff as supporters desert her ahead of impeachment vote
Embattled Brazilian leader Dilma Rousseff faces a fight for her political life on Friday as the lower house of parliament begins debating whether...
Brazil’s Rousseff brands VP a traitor, denounces ‘coup’
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff took off the gloves Tuesday, branding her vice president a traitor and coup-plotter ahead of an impeachment vote scheduled...
Brazil’s president Rousseff makes final plea to impeachment committee
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff’s top lawyer will present final arguments before an impeachment committee on Monday at the start of a crucial...
Brazil in chaos as coaltion partner threatens to walk out on president Rousseff
Brazil’s largest political party looks set to quit the government of leftist President Dilma Rousseff, in a move that would trigger the collapse...
2 years after spying flap, US, Brazil seek to turn the page
Two years after revelations about U.S. spying frayed ties between their countries, President Barack Obama and visiting Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff...
Fresh protests in Brazil against Rousseff, corruption
By early Sunday afternoon, organizers said some 190,000 people across the country had answered the call to protest, driven in large part by the widening...
Teen libertarians lead the charge in Brazil’s right-leaning movement
The grandson of Japanese immigrants, Kim Kataguiri, 19, is a social media star whose quirky videos skewer Rousseff and the ruling party’s social...
Poll shows most Brazilians favour Rousseff’s impeachment
A majority of Brazilians favor impeaching President Dilma Rousseff due to an economic slump and a snowballing corruption scandal at state-run oil company...
One million Brazilians protest corruption, support impeachment
Brazilians marched peacefully Sunday in over 50 cities around the country to demand President Dilma Rousseff’s impeachment and to criticize government...
Thousands march in Brazil against Rousseff, corruption
Around 5,000 demonstrators marched through downtown Sao Paulo against government corruption and the recent re-election of President Dilma Rousseff.
President Rousseff pulls ahead, but Brazil election still ‘too close to call’
Incumbent President Dilma Rousseff pulled ahead again in a new poll ahead of Brazil’s presidential election and she appears to be the favorite to...
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