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Dilma Rousseff

Brazil’s President was suspended amid charges of manipulating government accounts. She talks about her impeachment trial, political misogyny and why she likely won’t be going to the Olympic opening ceremonies
SURVIVOR Rousseff was active against Brazil’s military government in the 1970s and survived imprisonment and torture

How is the fight against impeachment going? I am being judged for a noncrime. What is happening in Brazil is not a military coup, but it is a parliamentary coup. It is a coup of a process that is affecting the institutions, eroding them from the inside, contaminating them. So I believe this fight, it requires

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