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BRAZILIAN President Dilma Rousseff was unbowed yesterday after Sunday’s Congress vote for her impeachment.
The Workers’ Party leader said that despite the desertion of governing coalition allies, she still had a mandate to govern from the 54 million voters who elected her.
“No government can be legitimate after this process,” she said. “The people cannot feel represented by such a government.”
The Cuban Foreign Ministry lent its support to the embattled president, saying: “Sectors of the Brazilian right wing and oligarchy in combination with the local reactionary press have achieved … the first step towards a parliamentary coup.”
Congressman Aloysio Nunes, whose Social Democratic Party is one of Ms Rousseff’s leading opponents, flew to Washington to meet leading politicians.
Among them were Senate foreign relations committee chairman Bob Corker and associates of former secretary of state Madeleine Albright’s lobbying firm the Albright Stonebridge Group.
