| Dilma Rousseff was removed as Brazil's president following an impeachment trial she condemned as a coup. Far from ending Brazil's monthslong political crisis, Ms. Rousseff's ouster leaves the country's new leaders beset with an economy in tatters and an angry, divided electorate. Brazil's Senate voted 61-20 to convict Ms. Rousseff on charges that she used illegal bookkeeping maneuvers to hide a growing budget deficit, deemed an impeachable crime in a nation with a history of hyperinflation and fiscal mismanagement. The outcome was widely expected, though only partly because of the legal evidence marshaled against her. Well before the trial's final phase opened last week, Ms. Rousseff's administration had been upended by a brutal recession and a corruption scandal at the state oil company that splintered her political base and devastated her popular support. See More Coverage » | 
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