It’s Official: Brazil Ousts Impeached President Dilma Rousseff
John Hayward
I did not commit a crime,” she told the Senate, suggesting many of the lawmakers judging her were corrupt themselves, and were persecuting her to cover their own involvement in the massive bribery scandal surrounding Brazil’s national oil company, Petrobras.
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