Brazilian prez suspended, to face trial

Brasilia, May 12, 2016, AFP:

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff was suspended on Thursday to face impeachment, in a political earthquake ending 13 years of leftist rule over Latin America’s biggest nation. Rousseff has ceded her power to her vice-president-turned-enemy Michel Temer.

A nearly 22-hour debate in the Senate closed with an overwhelming 55-22 vote against Brazil’s first female president. Pro-impeachment senators broke into applause. Only a simple majority of the 81-member Senate had been required to suspend Rousseff for 6 months.