On Wednesday morning, Brazil's Senate voted to impeach suspended President Dilma Rousseff.Sixty-one senators voted in favor of removing Rousseff from the presidency; 20 voted against her impeachment.Rousseff is accused of mishandling Brazil's budget and misrepresenting the state of the economy. Some of her accusers, as Rousseff noted in her testimony, are themselves accused or convicted of serious corruption charges.She testified for 14 hours straight on Monday, NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro reports.Rousseff defended her innocence and characterized the impeachment as a coup.Some 66 senators took the floor during the proceedings to question her or deliver speeches, in a marathon session that lasted through the night.Emotions ran high, Lulu reports: "There was this surreal moment, where one of the prosecutors, Jenaina Paschoal, who was advocating Rousseff's impeachment — she burst into tears in her closing argument. She asked for Rousseff's forgiveness because she did not mean to cause
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