Brazil senate votes to remove President Rousseff
BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil's Senate has voted to permanently remove President Dilma Rousseff from office.
The decision is the culmination of a yearlong fight that paralyzed Latin America's most powerful economy and exposed deep rifts among its people on everything from race relations to social spending.
Senators who support Rousseff submitted a request to separate the upcoming decision on whether to remove her from office and to ban her from further posts into two different votes.
Rousseff is on trial for breaking fiscal responsibility laws in her management of the federal budget.
Supreme Court Justice Ricardo Lewandowski is overseeing the proceedings.
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