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UNDER SIEGE: Rousseff and her chief of staff, Jaques Wagner, peer from the window of the presidential palace the day before the Senate voted to suspend her.
ADRIANO MACHADO/REUTERS
BACK IN MARCH 2014, when the scandal over Brazil’s state-run oil company Petrobras that would eventually topple the government was just getting started, some of President Dilma Rousseff’s top aides saw a golden opportunity to kill the investigation—or at least badly wound it.