Brazil's Rousseff Vows to Fight Impeachment Until the End
- `There is nothing more inconvenient than an innocent person'
- Her vice president is said to be assembling a new government
President of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff speaks during the high level signature ceremony for the Paris Agreement at the United Nations General Assembly Hall April 22, 2016 in New York.
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Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff called her vice president and his allies “traitors” who will be judged harshly by history, vowing to continue to resist an impeachment process she considers tantamount to a coup attempt.
“I am willing to fight to ensure that Brazil is not a country where democracy is broken,” she said. “There’s nothing more inconvenient than an innocent person.”