In Brazil, the Senate has ousted President Dilma Rousseff. This ends 13 years of rule by the leftist Workers Party.

Dilma Rousseff delivers a statement at the Alvorada Palace in Brasilia, Brazil, on Aug. 31, 2016. The Brazilian Senate voted on Wednesday to strip Dilma Rousseff of the presidency by 61 votes in favor to 20 votes against. This means Rousseff is immediately and permanently removed from her role and Michel Temer, who assumed the interim presidency after Rousseff was suspended in May, will become president until the end of this term in 2018. (Xinhua/Wilton Junior/Agencia Estado)

Senators have voted 61 to 20 to remove the country’s first female president. She has been found guilty of illegally using money from state banks to bankroll public spending.

Senators participate in the final vote of the impeachment against Brazil's suspended President Dilma Rousseff at the Senate in Brasilia, Brazil, on Aug. 31, 2016. The Brazilian Senate voted on Wednesday to strip Dilma Rousseff of the presidency by 61 votes in favor to 20 votes against. This means Rousseff is immediately and permanently removed from her role and Michel Temer, who assumed the interim presidency after Rousseff was suspended in May, will become president until the end of this term in 2018. (Xinhua/AGENCIA ESTADO)

Her rival, former Vice President Michel Temer, has been sworn in as the new President of Latin America’s biggest country. Temer pledges to pull Brazil together and rescue the country from its economic slump.

Michel Temer (front) takes oath at the senate in Brasilia, Brazil, Aug. 31, 2016. Temer was sworn in as the new president of Brazil on Wednesday afternoon, after Dilma Rousseff was stripped of the presidency by the Senate in an impeachment trial. (Xinhua/Li Ming)