Dilma Rousseff

Brazilian society remains deeply divided one and a half years after President Dilma Rousseff was impeached and removed from office, said the director of a new documentary about the period. “O processo” (“The Trial”), directed by...

News Hour: Brazil’s lower house of Congress removed from office on Monday lawmaker Eduardo Cunha, who pushed for the impeachment of president Dilma Rousseff, for hiding Swiss bank accounts. “I declare lawmaker Eduardo Cunha stripped of...

News Hour: Venezuela and Brazil on Wednesday withdrew their respective ambassadors after Caracas froze ties with its southern neighbor in response to president Dilma Rousseff’s removal from office, reports BSS. The leftist governments of Ecuador and...

News Hour: Brazil’s Senate was to vote on Wednesday on stripping Dilma Rousseff of the presidency in a traumatic impeachment trial set to end 13 years of leftist rule over Latin America’s biggest country, reports BSS....

News Hour: Brazil’s suspended president Dilma Rousseff has appeared before the Senate to testify at her impeachment trial, denying allegations of breaking budget rules and saying the future of the country was at stake, reports Aljazeera....

News Hour: Brazil’s Senate early Wednesday voted to hold an impeachment trial for the nation’s suspended president Dilma Rousseff, a process that could see her permanently removed from office. The vote in favor of trying Rousseff,...

News Hour: Brazil’s presidential impeachment drama enters its end game on Thursday when a Senate committee will vote whether to recommend removing elected president Dilma Rousseff’s from office, reports BSS. The vote in the capital Brasilia...

News Hour: Brazil’s suspended president Dilma Rousseff said Tuesday she is negotiating a political deal to escape impeachment and wants new elections to decide whether she can finish her term, according to BSS. Rousseff was suspended from...