Sixty-one senators voted in favour of her impeachment and 20 against,
meeting the two-thirds majority needed to remove her from the presidency.
Acting President Michel Temer will serve out Ms Rousseff's term, which
ends on 1 January 2019.
Mr Temer, from the centre-right PMDB party, is expected to be officially
sworn in later on Wednesday.
Ms Rousseff had been suspended in May after the Senate voted to go ahead
with the impeachment process.
She was accused of moving funds between government budgets, which is
illegal under Brazilian law.
Her critics said she was trying to plug deficit holes in popular social
programmes to boost her chances of being re-elected for a second term in
October 2014.
Ms Rousseff fought the allegations, which she said amounted to a coup
d'etat.
She argued that her right-wing political rivals had been trying to remove
her from office ever since she was re-elected.
Dilma
Rousseff
- Born
in 1947, grew up in an upper middle class household in
- Her
father was Bulgarian immigrant and an ex-communist
- Joined
left-wing movement against
- Detained
in 1970 and imprisoned for three years
- Subjected
to torture including electric shocks for her role in the underground
resistance
- Came
to political prominence as the protege of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who
governed
- Sworn
in as
- Re-elected
to a second term in 2014
- Impeached
on 31 August 2016
"From the day after I was elected, several measures were taken to
destabilise my government. And you have been systematically making accusations
against me," she said when she defended herself in the Senate on Monday.
She said that she was being ousted because she had allowed a wide-ranging
corruption investigation to go ahead which resulted in many high-profile
politicians being charged.
Source: BBC
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