Brazil’s Dilma Rouseff Replaced Amid Chaos Over Impeachment

FEATURING MARIA LUISA MENDONÇA – In a shocking move, Brazil’s Senate on Thursday morning voted to suspend President Dilma Rousseff and replace her with her Vice President Michel Temer. The move is the start of a 6-month impeachment process led by opposition leaders who are claiming Rouseff is guilty of corruption. Ironically most of the leaders have themselves been accused of corruption while Rousseff herself has not been criminally charged. Rousseff, who is Brazil’s first female president, is calling the move a coup in Latin America’s largest country and one of the world’s largest democracies.

Maria Luisa Mendonça, director of Brazil’s Network for Social Justice and Human Rights, and a professor in international relations department at the University of Rio De Janeiro.