For example the president of Venezuela believes that the United States had influence in the whole procedure of impeaching Rousseff.
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Late Wednesday night, a group of Rousseff supporters smashed windows of bank branches, other businesses and a police vehicle in the city of Sao Paulo.
She added that figures from different fields confirm that the removal process does not rest on any legal basis, so “is a real blow what is taking place in Brazil”.
Michel Temer, who served as Rousseff’s vice-president, will continue to act as the interim president until the end of the current term in 2018.
Rousseff argued that many opponents wanted her out of the way so they could save themselves by tampering with the investigation, which Rousseff had refused to do.
Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador withdrew their ambassadors, while Brazil responded by recalling its envoys for consultations. It is against Latin America and the Caribbean.
After a trial which lasted for five days and an overnight debate, 61 out of 81 senators voted to impeach Rousseff, Wednesday, August 31.
In a separate vote, senators decided Ms Rousseff should not be barred from public office.
In a surprise move, a Senate vote on barring Ms Rousseff from public office for eight years failed, meaning she is free to re-enter political life.
Michel Temer, Rousseff’s vice president, will serve the remainder of Rousseff’s term, which ends January 1, 2019.
The New York Times reported that Janaína Paschoal, the law professor who penned the impeachment request against Rouseff, claimed that she had been ‘inspired by God, ‘ and that she was seeking to remove the now former president for the “good of her grandchildren”.
But he inherits a bitterly divided Brazil in no mood for the austerity he has pledged to implement to mend the battered economy of Latin America’s biggest nation.
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) – The permanent ouster of deeply unpopular President Dilma Rousseff by Brazil’s Senate means that a man who is arguably just as unpopular is now faced with trying to ease the wounds of a divided nation mired in recession.
“This is a moment of hope, to rebuild trust in Brazil. Uncertainty has ended”, Temer said in a speech after his departure for a G20 summit in China, Reuters reported.
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Brazil’s fall from a rising star among emerging economies until a few years ago was quite unexpected. Temer has promised to pull the country of 200 million people from its recession by tackling reforms that have always been taboo, such as slimming public pensions.
