Brazil's Senate voted Thursday to impeach President Dilma Rousseff after
a months-long fight that laid bare the country's fury over corruption
and economic decay, hurling Latin America's largest country into
political turmoil just months before it hosts the Summer Olympics.
Rousseff's enraged backers called the move a coup d'etat and threatened wide-scale protests and strikes. Her foes, meanwhile, insisted that she had broken the law, and that the country's deep political, social and economic woes could only be tackled without her.
