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Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff raises a rose, during a Women in Defense of Democracy Meeting, at the Planalto Presidential Palace, in Brasilia, Brazil, Thursday, April 7, 2016. The women representing social movements and trade unions who are against Rousseff's removal from office, gathered to show their support. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres) ** FILE **

Dilma Rousseff under scope: Brazil congressional committee votes in favor of impeachment

By Jenny Barchfield and Mauricio Savarese - Associated Press

Demonstrators in Sao Paulo parade inflatable dolls depicting former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in prison garb and current President Dilma Rousseff dressed as a thief, with a presidential sash that reads "Impeachment." (Associated Press)

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s dramatic downfall rattles Brazil

By Frederic Puglie - Special to The Washington Times

Brazil's former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva speaks during a press conference at the Workers Party headquarters in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on March 4, 2016. (Associated Press)

Lula da Silva, former president of Brazil, to be charged in corruption probe

The Washington Times

Janine Santos holds her 3-month-old son Shayde Henrique who was born with microcephaly while health workers visit her home in Joao Pessoa, Brazil, Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2016. (AP Photo/Andre Penner) ** FILE **

Zika: Majority in Brazil reject abortion for babies with microcephaly

Catholic News Agency

Kerly Ariza, 17 and 20-weeks-pregnant, right, stands at her home in Ibague, Colombia, Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2016. Ariza was diagnosed with clinical symptoms of the Zika virus at a local hospital and is awaiting for the results of laboratory tests. Minister of Health Alejandro Gaviria said that at least 16.000 people have already been already infected with the Zika virus in Colombia, among them more than 500 pregnant women. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

Brazil minister says no doubt Zika connected to microcephaly

By Joshua Goodman - Associated Press

In this Jan. 27, 2016, file photo, an Aedes aegypti mosquito is photographed through a microscope at the Fiocruz institute in Recife, Pernambuco state, Brazil. The mosquito behind the Zika virus seems to operate like a heat-driven missile of disease. Scientists say the hotter it gets, the better the mosquito that carries Zika virus is at transmitting a variety of dangerous illnesses. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File)

Health officials want more Zika samples, data from Brazil

By Maria Cheng and Raphael Satter and Joshua Goodman - Associated Press

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, speaks at the Economic Club of Washington on various topics including the Zika virus in Washington on Jan. 29, 2016. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Zika virus: Congress pushes Obama administration for answers

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Dilma Rousseff's political woes are finding an echo across the continent, where long-entrenched left-leaning governments are facing a rising voter backlash. (Associated Press)

Dilma Rousseff impeachment proceedings cheered as Brazil falls into economic tailspin

By Frederic Puglie - Special to The Washington Times

In this Nov. 10, 2015 photo, trash litters Rodrigo de Freitas Lake in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. A new round of testing by The Associated Press shows the city’s Olympic waterways are as rife with pathogens far offshore as they are nearer land, where raw sewage flows into them from fetid rivers and storm drains. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

AP test: Rio Olympic water badly polluted, even far offshore

By Brad Brooks - Associated Press

Tobi Itauna, of the Tupi Guarani ethnic group, smokes his traditional pipe in the arena of World Indigenous Games in Palmas, Brazil, Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2015. Palmas is the host city for the first World Indigenous Games that will showcase traditional sports with the participation of more than 2,000 indigenous athletes from around the world. The event begins Oct. 23 and runs through Nov. 1. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Indigenous ‘Olympics’ gets underway in remote Brazilian city

By JENNY BARCHFIELD - Associated Press

In this Aug. 2, 2012 photo, relatives watch as Romulo Coelho holds his newborn daughter, Hadassa, birthed via cesarean section at the Perinatal Clinic in Rio de Janeiro. In clinics like Perinatal, most new parents have medical insurance that cover the $4,200 price tag of the C-sections, plus a three-day stay in a private room. But that cost can rise considerably. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File)

Luxury birthing clinics spur cesarean ‘epidemic’ in Brazil

By JENNY BARCHFIELD - Associated Press

A purple martin flies near a house with a dragonfly in it's mouth Thursday, July 9, 2015 over the property of Ike Kumrow in Scott, Wis. Kumrow has almost 175 purple martins that fly and nest in their backyard. (John Ehlke/West Bend Daily News via AP) MANDATORY CREDIT

TRAVEL BIRD WATCH: Wis. couple create purple martin habitat

By JOE VANDELAARSCHOT - Associated Press

Brazilian athletes train in the Olympic Equestrian Center at the Deodoro Sports Complex in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, Aug. 6, 2015. The venue is part of the sports complex that will stage competitions for dressage, cross-country and jumping at the Olympics and Paralympics. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Rio Olympic official: No glanders risk at equestrian

By JENNY BARCHFIELD - Associated Press

International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach bathes in the waters of the Barra de Tijuca beach during a meeting with current and former Brazilian Olympic athletes in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2015. With the Olympic games being almost a year away, Bach played on the beach and bathed in the water, even after and AP investigation showed that all Olympic water venues had dangerously high viral levels, according to water safety experts who reviewed the data. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

Rio Olympics: 1 year away and mayor says all will be ready

By JENNY BARCHFIELD - Associated Press

Alois Jnabl of Austria exits the water during the men's triathlon ITU World Olympic Qualification Event in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday, Aug. 2, 2015. The World Olympic Qualification is a test event for the Rio 2016 Olympics. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

IOC to order tests for viruses at Rio’s Olympic water venues

By STEPHEN WADE and BRAD BROOKS and STEPHEN WILSON - Associated Press

This July 27, 2015, aerial photo shows the Rodrigo de Freitas Lake in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. An Associated Press analysis of water quality found dangerously high levels of viruses and bacteria from human sewage in Olympic and Paralympic venues. The Rodrigo de Freitas Lake, which was largely cleaned up in recent years, was thought be safe for rowers and canoers. Yet AP tests found its waters to be among the most polluted for Olympic sites. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Olympic teams to swim, boat in Rio’s filth

By Brad Brooks and Jenny Barchfield - Associated Press

In this July 12, 2015 photo, a boy walks with his father's catch of the day from the Marina da Gloria, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The head of Rio's Infectious Diseases Society said contaminated waters in beaches and lakes has led to &quot;endemic&quot; public health woes among Brazilians, primarily infectious diarrhea in children. By adolescence, he said, people in Rio have been so exposed to the viruses in the water their bodies build up antibodies. But foreign athletes and tourists won’t have that protection. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

AP Investigation: Filthy Rio water a threat at 2016 Olympics

By BRAD BROOKS and JENNY BARCHFIELD - Associated Press

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff watches as Vice President Joe Biden puts his glass on a table after a toast during a luncheon in her honor, Tuesday, June 30, 2015, at the State Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

2 years after spying flap, U.S., Brazil seek to turn the page

By JOSH LEDERMAN - Associated Press