Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this interview.The Brazilian Senate is voting to question President Dilma Rousseff nowadays. The nation's leader has been embroiled in a massive corruption scandal involving multi-million dollar bribes and the state-owned oil company Petrobras.
If the vote succeeds,Rousseff will be suspended from office, and her trail could take up to six months.
How will the country fare with an absent president as it battles the Zika virus, and prepares for the summer Olympic games? Bruce Douglas,Brazil correspondent for Latin American Newsletters, weighs in.
Source: wnyc.org