After enduring 8 months of political chemotherapy, Brazil's beleaguered president Dilma Rousseff was indicted in her impeachment trial on Wednesday as expected. Sixty-one senators out of 81 voted in ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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 embattled President Dilma Rousseff on Wednesday, the latest turn in a political saga that has gripped the country and left the government sputtering in a months-long ...