Hours after Dilma Rousseff, Brazil’s first female president, was suspended by a vote to put her on trial for breaking budget laws, the man who took her place unveiled his cabinet: An all-male line-up of 23 ministers.

If Dilma Rousseff is impeached, she will be the 18th elected Latin American president since 1985, excluding Haiti, forced to leave office by means other than the ballot box, says Gretchen Helmke.

Brazil's president has said she will appeal to South American trade blocs if she is removed from office, condemning the push to impeach her as a coup and a naked attempt by the country's elite to snatch power back from her Workers' Party.

Brazil’s leftist president Dilma Rousseff has suffered a humiliating loss in a crucial impeachment vote in the lower house of Congress and is almost certain to be forced from office months before the nation hosts the Olympics.

Brazil’s impeachment of its president will serve little on its own, but must be the catalyst to drive changes in a country languishing, writes Luiz Felipe d’Avila

Embattled Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff lashed out at the two men in line to succeed her if she is impeached, calling her vice president and the lower house speaker “heads of the conspiracy” to remove her from office.

Embattled Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff lashed out at the two men in line to succeed her if she is impeached, calling them "heads of the conspiracy" to remove her from office.

A committee of Brazil’s lower house of Congress has voted 38-27 to recommend the impeachment of president Dilma Rousseff, who faces charges of breaking budget laws to support her re-election in 2014.

Brazil’s largest party has abandoned president Dilma Rousseff’s governing coalition, making it tougher for her to survive mounting pressure in congress for her impeachment.

Brazil’s Supreme Court handed embattled president Dilma Rousseff two victories in rulings that improve her chances of blocking an impeachment bid by opponents seeking to oust the unpopular leftist leader.

Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff has dug in for a long battle with a deeply fragmented Congress after impeachment proceedings were introduced against her in the lower house.

Brazil’s president Dilma Rousseff will face impeachment proceedings in Congress, according to lower house speaker Eduardo Cunha.

Brazilians have taken to the streets of cities and towns across the country for anti-government protests.

Left-leaning President Dilma Rousseff has been re-elected in the tightest race Brazil has seen since its return to democracy 30 years ago.