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On Wednesday senators voted to impeach Rousseff, who had been temporarily suspended in May on corruption allegations and illegal manipulations of the national budget. Following the vote and Conservative Vice-President Michel Temer's being sworn in as the new Brazilian leader, several countries across Latin America vowed to remove their ambassadors from Brazil.
Venezuela condemned Rousseff's impeachment saying it will not pursue relations with a government that stemmed from a "parliamentary coup d'etat." Venezuela "has decided to definitively withdraw its ambassador in the Federal Republic of Brazil, and to freeze political and diplomatic relations with the government that emerged from this parliamentary coup," the country's foreign ministry said in a statement.
Ecuador's foreign ministry, in its turn, dubbed Rousseff's ouster "a flagrant subversion of the democratic order in Brazil" saying it is withdrawing its representative to Brazil.
"Given these exceptional facts, the government of Ecuador has decided to call for consultations the charge d'affaires to the Republic of Brazil," Ecuadorian government said in a statement, according to Telesur. Ecuador said that Rousseff's removal from her post was a "spurious" procedure which failed to provide concrete evidence of her actually committing "crimes of responsibility". Ecuador "cannot ignore the fact that many of the decision-makers in Rousseff's impeachment are being investigated for serious acts of corruption," it said in a statement. Ecuador's president Rafael Correa personally took to Twitter to voice his anger over Rousseff's impeachment: "Never will we condone these practices, which recall the darkest hours of our America."
Comment: Global reaction is beginning to surface. Those nations that have experienced the meddling of the US, who see the Western cabal for what it really is and does, are making their opinions and with whom they stand known. See also: