Rousseff urges Senate to vote against 'coup'

Declaring her innocence and recalling her torture by Brazil's military dictatorship in the 1970s, Rousseff warned that Latin America's biggest country was on the verge of losing its democracy. "Vote against impeachment, vote for democracy.... Do not accept a coup," the 68-year-old leftist leader said as she defended herself before senators who are widely expected to remove her from office. "I've come to look your excellencies in the eye and to say that I did not commit a crime," Rousseff said in