
Brazil's former Dilma Rousseff speaks at the Alvorada presidential palace in Brasilia after she was stripped of the country's presidency in a Senate impeachment vote on August 31, 2016. Rousseff was stripped of the country's presidency Wednesday in a Senate impeachment vote ending 13 years of leftist rule in Latin America's biggest economy. Rousseff, 68, was convicted by 61 of the 81 senators of illegally manipulating the national budget. The vote, passing the needed two-thirds majority, meant she was immediately removed from office. / AFP / EVARISTO SA
- Supporters of Brazilian suspended President Dilma Rousseff follow the Senate’s session as it votes on stripping her of the presidency in a traumatic impeachment trial, on a screen at Planalto Palace in Brasilia on August 31, 2016. Rousseff, from the leftist Workers’ Party, is accused of taking illegal state loans to patch budget holes in 2014, masking the country’s problems as it slid into its deepest recession in decades. / AFP / EVARISTO SA
- Citizens opposing impeached Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff react upon knowing the veredict of the senate, in Brasilia, on August 31, 2016. Rousseff was stripped of the country’s presidency Wednesday in a Senate impeachment vote ending 13 years of leftist rule in Latin America’s biggest economy. / AFP / IANO ANDRADE
- Supporters of impeached Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff react upon knowing the veredict of the senate, in Brasilia, on August 31, 2016. Rousseff was stripped of the country’s presidency Wednesday in a Senate impeachment vote ending 13 years of leftist rule in Latin America’s biggest economy. / AFP / IANO ANDRADE
- People celebrate after Brazil’s Dilma Rousseff was stripped of the country’s presidency in a Senate impeachment vote in Brasilia on August 31, 2016. Rousseff was stripped of the country’s presidency Wednesday in a Senate impeachment vote ending 13 years of leftist rule in Latin America’s biggest economy. Rousseff, 68, was convicted by 61 of the 81 senators of illegally manipulating the national budget. The vote, passing the needed two-thirds majority, meant she was immediately removed from office. / AFP / IANO ANDRADE
- Brazilian senators are seen after the voting in the impeachment trial of suspendend President Dilma Rousseff at the Senate in Brasilia, on August 31, 2016. Brazil’s Senate on Wednesday voted not to bar Dilma Rousseff from holding public office in the future despite stripping her of the presidency at her impeachment trial. / AFP / ANDRESSA ANHOLETE
- Senators applaud after voting the impeachment of suspendend President Dilma Rousseff in the Brazilian senate in Brasilia, on August 31, 2016. B Brazil’s Dilma Rousseff was stripped of the country’s presidency Wednesday in a Senate impeachment vote ending 13 years of leftist rule in Latin America’s biggest economy. / AFP / ANDRESSA ANHOLETE
- Senators applaud after voting the impeachment of suspendend President Dilma Rousseff in the Brazilian senate in Brasilia, on August 31, 2016. B Brazil’s Dilma Rousseff was stripped of the country’s presidency Wednesday in a Senate impeachment vote ending 13 years of leftist rule in Latin America’s biggest economy. / AFP / ANDRESSA ANHOLETE
- Placard detailing the voting on the preservation of the political rights of President Dilma Rousseff after she was impeached by the Brazilian senate in Brasilia, on August 31, 2016. Brazil’s Dilma Rousseff was stripped of the country’s presidency Wednesday in a Senate impeachment vote ending 13 years of leftist rule in Latin America’s biggest economy. / AFP / ANDRESSA ANHOLETE
- Brazil’s former Dilma Rousseff speaks at the Alvorada presidential palace in Brasilia after she was stripped of the country’s presidency in a Senate impeachment vote on August 31, 2016. Rousseff was stripped of the country’s presidency Wednesday in a Senate impeachment vote ending 13 years of leftist rule in Latin America’s biggest economy. Rousseff, 68, was convicted by 61 of the 81 senators of illegally manipulating the national budget. The vote, passing the needed two-thirds majority, meant she was immediately removed from office. / AFP / EVARISTO SA
- Brazil’s former Dilma Rousseff speaks at the Alvorada presidential palace in Brasilia after she was stripped of the country’s presidency in a Senate impeachment vote on August 31, 2016. Rousseff was stripped of the country’s presidency Wednesday in a Senate impeachment vote ending 13 years of leftist rule in Latin America’s biggest economy. Rousseff, 68, was convicted by 61 of the 81 senators of illegally manipulating the national budget. The vote, passing the needed two-thirds majority, meant she was immediately removed from office. / AFP / EVARISTO SA
- Brazilian Sen. Fatima Bezerra, of the Workers Party, accuses opposition senators of a coup while holding a poster with a message that reads in Portuguese; «I’m not going to put my name on this infamy,» after the final vote in the impeachment trial of Brazil’s suspended President Dilma Rousseff, in Senate chambers, in Brasilia, Brazil, Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2016. The opposition needed 54 of the 81 senators to vote in favor for her to be removed. They got many more, winning in a landslide of sorts, 61-20. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)