Brazil’s Senate has voted to suspend the president, Dilma Rousseff. Her impeachment trial could last six months
Thursday, May 12, 2016 5:40 AM EDT
Brazil’s Senate voted Thursday morning to suspend
President Dilma Rousseff and begin an impeachment trial against her, ousting a deeply unpopular leader whose sagging political fortunes have come to embody widespread public anger over systemic corruption and a battered economy.
In a vote of 55 to 22, lawmakers accepted the charges against Ms. Rousseff, accusing her of borrowing from state banks to conceal a looming deficit, a budgetary sleight of hand that critics say was aimed at securing her re-election two years ago.
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