A total of 61 out of 81 senators voted to remove Dilma Rousseff from office. Michel Temer didn’t wait and was quickly sworn into office this afternoon to end Rousseff’s term. “This is the second coup d’etat I face in my lifetime,” Rousseff said today in a long text posted online after the vote. Her small margin of victory tied with her inability to make inroads with Congress, Rousseff’s government began to crumble. Broadening corruption allegations that seemed to engulf the entire political class, including Rousseff’s Workers’ Party (PT) didn’t help matters either.

Source: The Bubble August 31, 2016 21:22 UTC