
STRUGGLE FINALLY OVER: Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff attends the final session of her impeachment trial in the capital, Brasilia, earlier this week.Image by: Brazil's Dilma Rousseff was stripped of the country's presidency yesterday in a senate impeachment vote, ending 13 years of leftist rule in Latin America's biggest economy.Rousseff, 68, was convicted by 61 of the 81 senators of illegally manipulating the budget. The vote meant she was immediately removed from office. Cheers - and cries of disappointment - erupted in the blue-carpeted, circular chamber as the verdict flashed up on the electronic voting screen. Pro-impeachment senators burst into the national anthem, some waving Brazilian flags, while allies of Rousseff stood by stone-faced."I will not associate my name to this infamy," read a sign held up by one senator. Brazil's first female president, holed up in the presidential palace in the capital Brasilia with close aides, was expected to make a statement soon after the vote.Her vice-president-turned-political foe, Michel Temer, will be sworn in as her replacement.The veteran centre-right politician, whom Rousseff accuses of using the impeachment process to mount a coup, was then to leave for the G20 summit in China. Numsa protest ‘to defeat attempted coup’ in BrazilAbout…