Impeached ... Convicted ... Removed

The CNBC website carries a Reuters article reporting the removal from office of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff.

Brazil's Senate removed President Dilma Rousseff from office on Wednesday for breaking budgetary laws, ending an impeachment process that has polarized the scandal-plagued country and paralyzed its politics for nine months.

Senators voted 61-20 to convict Rousseff for illegally using money from state banks to boost public spending, putting an end to 13 years of leftist Workers Party rule in Latin America's largest economy.

In a developed country her removal would count as good news. In third world countries, even upscale ones like Brazil, it is harder to predict what such actions might trigger. Revolution, civil war, even societal meltdown are possible sequelae, but so is muddling through.