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Last edited Wed Aug 31, 2016, 01:13 PM - Edit history (1)
Final Curtain Falls on Brazil Impeachment Farce: Senate Votes
With at least 60 Senators committed to removing the suspended president, the impeachment is a "foregone conclusion,"... is being decided Wednesday as the country's Senate is voting on whether to impeach suspended President Dilma Rousseff after a trial that many international critics have described as a farce and a parliamentary coup. ....
"We are 54 million Dilmas," read signs at many of the protests, referring to the number of votes Brazil’s first woman president received in 2014. Police are trying to crack down on protesters ahead of Wednesday vote.
Rousseff's dismissal would consolidate a political shift to the right and the end of 13 years of leftist Workers Party rule that helped lift some 30 million Brazilians out of poverty.
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With at least 60 Senators committed to removing the suspended president, the impeachment is a "foregone conclusion,"... is being decided Wednesday as the country's Senate is voting on whether to impeach suspended President Dilma Rousseff after a trial that many international critics have described as a farce and a parliamentary coup. ....
"We are 54 million Dilmas," read signs at many of the protests, referring to the number of votes Brazil’s first woman president received in 2014. Police are trying to crack down on protesters ahead of Wednesday vote.
Rousseff's dismissal would consolidate a political shift to the right and the end of 13 years of leftist Workers Party rule that helped lift some 30 million Brazilians out of poverty.
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Stephanie Nolen @snolen
9:16 AM - 31 Aug 2016
PT Senator Farias now speaking in defence of #Dilma, fired up: "Scoundrels! Scoundrels! Scoundrels!" he screams about pro-impecahment bloc
9:16 AM - 31 Aug 2016
PT Senator Farias now speaking in defence of #Dilma, fired up: "Scoundrels! Scoundrels! Scoundrels!" he screams about pro-impecahment bloc
Don Kingsbury @don_kingsbury 2 minutes ago
#Dilma removed on a politicized technicality. New top 3 politicos in #Brazil are all accused of *actual* corruption.
#Dilma removed on a politicized technicality. New top 3 politicos in #Brazil are all accused of *actual* corruption.
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