Brazil president launches impeachment counter-attack

Brasília (AFP) - Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff launched a counter-offensive on Saturday to prevent her impeachment, seeking to personally lobby lawmakers to stop what she calls a "coup" bid by "corrupt" critics. On the eve of a crucial vote in the lower house of Congress, the 68-year-old leftist leader reaffirmed her belief that she was the victim of a coup -- a loaded word in a country ruled by the military from 1964 to 1985. "They want to convict an innocent woman and save the corru