Andres Stapff | Reuters
Former Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff speaks during a media conference at Uruguay’s Frente Amplio party’s headquarters in Montevideo, November 4, 2016.
Former Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff vigorously defended herself and her administration during an appearance in New York, characterizing her impeachment as a “parliamentary coup.”
“This was not something that happened by surprise. It had a clear goal — to stop the political class from being victims of investigations for their own corruption,” Rousseff said Tuesday night at Columbia University in New York.
Rousseff was removed on Aug. 31 amid a massive corruption scandal and an economic crisis that crippled Latin America’s largest country.
Brazil had been an economic stalwart in the region just a few years before Rousseff’s impeachment, buoyed by surging oil prices. But the collapse
