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Brazil's Rousseff ahead of trial: 'I'm innocent'


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Brasília (AFP) - Brazil's suspended president Dilma Rousseff admitted Tuesday she had made mistakes but said she had done nothing worthy of impeachment in an address just over a week before she goes on trial. Rousseff, accused of using illegal budgetary maneuvers to cover up the depth of the country's economic problems during her 2014 re-election, faces trial in the Senate starting August 25, four days after the Olympic Games end in Rio. In a letter to the Brazilian people that she read out in the capital Brasilia, Rousseff struck a humble note.

 

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