The Brazilian senate on 31 August 2016 voted to impeach the twice-elected President Dilma Rousseff. Shortly after, Vice President Michel Temer, leading those who participated in the impeachment drive, was sworn in as President for the rest of the term, which is till 2018. For Rousseff, who in the late 1960s was an underground guerrilla fighter against a military regime, the political journey that began with imprisonment and torture has ended with impeachment and ouster from office.