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BRASILIA — Brazil’s Senate ousted Dilma Rousseff as president Wednesday, voting overwhelmingly to impeach the leftist leader in the culmination of a protracted process that has divided the country. The vote to impeach Rousseff was 61 to 20. Two-thirds of senators — 54 out of 81 — were needed for impeachment to pass. Senators broke into cheering and applause after the electronic voting was announced and sang the national anthem, concluding a process that was given the go-ahead in December. But a second vote to strip Rousseff of her political rights for eight years fell well short of the required...

Rio de Janeiro (AFP) - Police on Friday recommended corruption charges against Brazil's ex-president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva as part of a probe into a huge embezzlement scheme at state oil company Petrobras. The recommendation, which must now be considered by prosecutors before becoming formal charges, was made in a filing seen by AFP. A judge would still have to decide whether to accept the charges. The development comes as Lula's successor and protege Dilma Rousseff fights an impeachment trial in the Senate. Lula, who founded the Workers' Party and was president between 2003-2010 before helping Rousseff get elected,...

U.S. intelligence officials said Friday they are concerned Venezuela is slipping into a crisis that could lead to a coup attempt or a government crackdown on dissent. Reuters reports: In a bleak assessment of Venezuela’s worsening crisis, the senior officials expressed doubt that unpopular leftist President Nicolas Maduro would allow a recall referendum this year, despite opposition-led protests demanding a vote to decide whether he stays in office…They said one “plausible” scenario would be that Maduro’s own party or powerful political figures would force him out and would not rule out the possibility of a military coup. Still, they said...

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff bowed out defiantly on Thursday, suspended from office after the Senate voted to put her on trial for breaking budget laws in a historic decision brought on by a deep recession and a corruption scandal. Rousseff, in office since 2011, will be replaced by Vice President Michel Temer, for the duration of a Senate trial that could take up to six months. Rousseff, speaking shortly before she left Brasilia's Planalto presidential palace, said was notified of her suspension on Thursday morning. "I may have made mistakes but I did not commit any crime," Rousseff said in...

The impeachment vote in the lower house passed with more than a two-thirds majority.  The upper house will now vote with only a simple majority needed to oust President Rousseff.  The global power vacuum grows ever larger and someone with evil intent will step into the void.

Supporters of the impeachment of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff took a commanding lead in a ballot in the lower house of Congress on Sunday that could hasten the end of 13 years of leftist Workers Party rule in Latin America's biggest economy. With 272 votes cast, 210 members of Congress had voted in favor of Rousseff's impeachment and 62 voted against or abstained. The Datafolha polling group projected Rousseff's defeat. Rousseff's opponents needs votes from 342 of the 513 members of the chamber to send her for trial in the Senate on charges of manipulating budgetary accounts to support her...

Brasília (AFP) - Brazil's Supreme Court said it delayed until Thursday the next step in a case that could lead President Dilma Rousseff's impeachment. The decision, originally scheduled for Wednesday, was postponed after the court ran out of time. "Tomorrow we'll stay as long as necessary," said Chief Justice Ricardo Lewandowski. The march towards the unpopular president's possible ouster was stalled by Rousseff's allies in Congress, who say that opposition legislators violated the constitution in their rush towards impeachment. They claim that the commission looking into impeachment illegally insisted on secret votes while picking its members, and that it is...

Barack Obama held a press conference today in Washington DC with Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff today in the White House. obama brazilian leader Obama compared the US to Brazil, including our “similar histories”(?) “Our common values, our strong people-to-people relationships that we have, the fact that we are the largest countries in the hemisphere, with similar histories, I think all that means that we should be very strong partners for years and years.”

BRASILIA— Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff raced on Wednesday to defuse a rebellion by legislators upset about her budget austerity plans and her handling of a corruption scandal at state-run oil company Petrobras. Rousseff met with legislative leaders from her coalition after they unexpectedly threw out a presidential decree that would have raised payroll taxes and helped close a gaping hole in Brazil's budget. “This is very serious for Rousseff,” said political analyst Gabriel Petrus of Brasilia-based consultancy Barral M Jorge Associates. “It looks as if there is no political stability on top of the economic crisis.” The economic impact of...

96,48% dos votos apurados | 101.934.130 votos válidos

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff and opposition candidate Aecio Neves are locked in a statistical tie before Sunday’s second-round vote, according to an MDA poll released on Saturday. Rousseff of the Workers’ Party would get 49.7% of voter support, compared to 50.3% support for Neves of the Brazilian Social Democracy Party, according to the poll commissioned by the National Transport Confederation. The poll was conducted on 23 and 24 October, surveyed 2,002 people and had a margin of error of plus or minus 2.2 percentage points.

The spying revelations sparked a political uproar that Rousseff could not ignore despite a 20-minute telephone call from President Barack Obama last night. The trip was to be a platform for "deals, oil exploration and biofuels", and Brazil purchase of fighter jets from Chicago-based Boeing Co. The contract worth more than $4 billion that Boeing is seeking for the sale of 36 F-18 fighter jets to the Brazilian Air Force

Over a million Brazilians participated in massive nationwide protests over high taxes and government corruption last week, and some analysts question the real forces behind the protests. Over a Million Brazilians Protest; Analysts Question Real Agenda The New American 25 June 2013 Estimates suggest over a million Brazilians — outraged about everything from high taxes and government corruption to the wasting of taxpayer money on sports tournaments — participated in massive nationwide protests over the last week. The wave of demonstrations, some of which became violent, were supposedly triggered by a small fare increase for public transportation that boiled...

Brazil is a big gumbo of ethnicities, its people proud of their diversity and confident their country is among the most tolerant of nations. But this country — a leading center of black culture — has never had a black president. .....Obama’s story — the humble beginnings and the rise to prominence and power — is familiar here. And so is his race, which has struck a chord in a country with the world’s second-largest black population, after Nigeria. Portuguese explorers settled Brazil, followed by waves of Spaniards, Italians, Germans and other Europeans. But about half of its nearly 200...

Dilma: She fought her way to the topEx-revolutionary, cancer survivor, now a President Last updated on: January 3, 2011 08:26 IST A former Marxist guerrilla who was tortured and imprisoned during Brazil's long dictatorship has taken over as president of Latin America's biggest nation, a country in the midst of an economic and political rise. Dilma Rousseff was sworn in as Brazil's first female president on Sunday. The 63-year-old assumed the presidency in Brazil's Congress after a short motorcade ride under steady rain during which she waved to an estimated 70,000 well-wishers lining Brasilia's streets. She will lead a nation...

Dilma Rousseff, from the Workers Party, seems to be opening a significant advantage over the other candidates in the race for the Brazilian presidency. On Tuesday, August 17, the Vox Populi Institute released a poll for TV Band and the web portal, iG, showing Dilma 16 percentage points ahead of her nearest rival, José Serra from the PSDB (Party of the Brazilian Social Democracy).

Dilma Rousseff, a Marxist guerrilla turned button-down technocrat with expertise in everything from energy to high finance, comfortably won Brazil's presidency Sunday in a contest that demonstrated voter loyalty to the man who handpicked her for the job, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

Ruling party candidate Dilma Rousseff placed a strong first in Brazil's presidential election on Sunday, but a runoff looked inevitable after some voters were turned off at the last minute by a corruption scandal and her views on social issues