Out but not down, Brazil’s ousted President Dilma Rousseff has pledged to appeal her impeachment.<br /><br /> Speaking after the senate vote, she denies any wrongdoing and reiterated that the decision to remove her for breaking budgetary rules was tantamount to a coup backed by the economic elite. <br /><br /> “They’ve just toppled the first elected woman president of Brazil, without any constitutional justification for this impeachment,” said Rousseff in a statement just hours after the vote.<br /><br /> The conservative Michel Temer will now see out the rest of her presidential term through to 2018. Rousseff called on supporters of her Workers Party to put up a fight.<br /><br /> “They think they’ve won, but they’re wrong. I know we will all fight. They will face the strongest and most energetic opposition that a ‘putshist’ government can face,” she told supporters.<br /><br /> Senators voted 61-20 to convict Rousseff, marking an end to her more than five years in office and 13 years of Workers Party rule. <br /><br /> The end to leftist government also sparked anger in other left-leaning adminstrations. Venezuela Bolivia and Ecuador announced they would recall their ambassadors.<br />
