A technical report into whether or not Dilma cooked the books on fiscal accounts in 2014 turned out in her favor. Come to find out, she did not push forward accounts, but still -- according to one ...

In approximately four weeks, the world will know the fate of Brazil's embattled President Dilma Rousseff. Her life in the headlines is drawing to a close. For now, the woman is a must-have to media ...

A total of 367 lawmakers in the Brazilian parliament’s lower house voted to impeach Dilma Rousseff, the country’s first female president, comfortably more than the two-thirds majority required by law.

Protests against Presidente Dilma Rousseff in March 2016. Juliana Baratojo/Flickr. Some rights reserved. Every so often, the bourgeois political system runs into ...

The Brazilian Senate has voted to impeach the country’s democratically elected President Dilma Rousseff from office in what many are calling a coup. The vote was 61 to 20. Rousseff denounced the ...

Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff, like her predecessor Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has a radical past. Once deemed the “Joan of Arc of the guerrillas” by a martial prosecutor, her insurrection against ...

Early last Thursday morning, after Brazil’s senators voted to begin an impeachment trial against President Dilma Rousseff, fireworks crackled in cities around the country. Rousseff was out at last.

Protests are continuing in Brazil over the imprisonment of former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Two weeks ago, Lula began serving a 12-year prison sentence for a highly controversial corruption ...

IT WAS just what Brazil needed. With a vast corruption scandal in full swing, an economy in free fall, public finances in tatters—and a self-serving political class in no mood to tackle any of it—the ...

Zack Beauchamp is a senior correspondent at Vox, where he covers ideology and challenges to democracy, both at home and abroad. His book on democracy, The Reactionary Spirit, was published 0n July 16.

Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff made an emotional plea before Brazil’s Senate Monday as her impeachment trial comes to an end. "I’m here to look in your eyes and say with the serenity of someone who ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Finding a job in Brazil is hard enough with unemployment at almost 12 per cent but for Dilma Rousseff, the ...