Rousseff was Brazil’s first female president, with a storied career that includes a stint as a Marxist guerrilla jailed and tortured in the 1970s during the country’s dictatorship. Rousseff argued that many opponents just wanted her out of the way so they could save their own skins by tampering with the investigation, which Rousseff had refused to do. Janaina Paschoal, the lawyer leading the case against Brazil’s first female president, said Rousseff committed fraud when breaking fiscal laws. “The fraud was documented.”Paschoal then broke into tears as she asked for Rousseff’s forgiveness for making the president suffer. In May, Temer took over as interim president after the Senate impeached and suspended Rousseff.

Source: National Post August 31, 2016 14:13 UTC