After enduring 8 months of political chemotherapy, Brazil's beleaguered president Dilma Rousseff was indicted in her impeachment trial on Wednesday as expected. Sixty-one senators out of 81 voted in ...

After Brazil impeached its first female president, Dilma Rousseff, her lawyer, former attorney general Jose Eduardo Cardozo, feels tired, sad and overwhelmed. “What she did is not illegal,” he said.

After a largely successful—especially in light of almost insultingly low expectations—Olympics, Brazil is now abruptly pulled back to reality. The end of Olympics revelry coincided with the ...

Back in March 2014, when the scandal over Brazil's state-run oil company Petrobras that would eventually topple the government was just getting started, some of President Dilma Rousseff's top aides ...

Brazil's senate voted 61-20 to oust suspended president Dilma Rousseff, in an impeachment trial over allegations she committed fiscal crimes while handling the federal budget. Photo: Reuters ...

Brazil’s Senate voted to impeach embattled President Dilma Rousseff on Wednesday, the latest turn in a political saga that has gripped the country and left the government sputtering in a months-long ...