Inauguration of Dilma Rousseff

Brazil's Rousseff brands VP a traitor, denounces 'coup'

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff took off the gloves April 12, branding her vice president a traitor and coup-plotter ahead of an impeachment vote in Congress, with a party once in the ruling coalition set to cast a ballot against her.

In a blistering speech, Rousseff, 68, charged: "If there were any doubts about my reporting that a coup is under way, there can't be now."