Early last Thursday morning, after Brazil’s senators voted to begin an impeachment trial against President Dilma Rousseff, fireworks crackled in cities around the country. Rousseff was out at last.

A defiant President Dilma Rousseff warned on Monday that her conservative opponents were trampling on Brazil's democracy by using trumped-up charges to oust her and roll back the social advances of 13 ...

BRASILIA, Brazil --Brazil’s Senate on Wednesday voted to remove President Dilma Rousseff from office, the culmination of a yearlong fight that paralyzed Latin America’s largest nation and exposed deep ...

The ousting of President Dilma Rousseff from office does little to further Brazil’s battle against high-powered corruption networks, suggesting instead she was the loser of a battle amongst the ...

On Wednesday, thousands of people packed Paulista Avenue, in central São Paulo. Many were there to celebrate the impeachment of Dilma Rousseff, Brazil’s first female President. They posed for ...

It may offer a chance for Brazil to return to the policies "that put the country on a virtuous trajectory of rising growth and falling inequality." “Brazil’s young democracy is being subjected to a ...

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Minutes after taking her oath of office in 2011, President Dilma Rousseff stood before Congress and pledged to end the dirty back-room deals and kickback schemes at the heart of ...

Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff attends a signing ceremony in Brasilia, Brazil May 6. She is promising to resist efforts to remove her from office. Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff attends a ...

In 1992, the Brazilian Congress voted to impeach Fernando Collor de Mello, the first democratically elected candidate after two decades of military ruling. The press lauded his removal from office as ...