After Brazil impeached its first female president, Dilma Rousseff, her lawyer, former attorney general Jose Eduardo Cardozo, feels tired, sad and overwhelmed. “What she did is not illegal,” he said.

After a largely successful—especially in light of almost insultingly low expectations—Olympics, Brazil is now abruptly pulled back to reality. The end of Olympics revelry coincided with the ...

BRASILIA, BRAZIL (AP) --Brazil's Senate has voted 55-22 to impeach the South American giant's first woman president. President Dilma Rousseff is accused of using accounting tricks to hide large budget ...

BRASILIA, Brazil --Brazil’s Senate on Wednesday voted to remove President Dilma Rousseff from office, the culmination of a yearlong fight that paralyzed Latin America’s largest nation and exposed deep ...

(Bloomberg) -- Picture this: A highly popular president who can’t run for reelection seeks to cement his legacy by anointing a more technocratic female successor to become the country’s first woman ...

Back in March 2014, when the scandal over Brazil's state-run oil company Petrobras that would eventually topple the government was just getting started, some of President Dilma Rousseff's top aides ...

A defiant President Dilma Rousseff warned on Monday that her conservative opponents were trampling on Brazil's democracy by using trumped-up charges to oust her and roll back the social advances of 13 ...

Brazil’s Senate voted to impeach President Dilma Rousseff early Thursday amid the country's worst economic crisis since the 1930s and with only 85 days to go until the Rio Olympics. After an all-night ...

Brazil’s senate has overwhelmingly decided to suspend President Dilma Rousseff from office. By 55 votes to 22, the upper house voted early Thursday morning she should face an impeachment trial on ...