Acting president of Brazil names all-male cabinet

Hours after Brazil's Senate voted Thursday to impeach President Dilma Rousseff and her cabinet was dismissed, acting President Michel Temer named the 21 members of his new, less-diverse cabinet.

When Rousseff started her second term last year, six of her 39 Cabinet members were women, including the only black minister in the government. Temer's cabinet consists of all white men, The Associated Press reports, and three have been implicated in the corruption investigation at the state-run oil company Petrobras.

Temer, the former vice president, said during his first remarks as acting president that he is working to improve the country's economy and is committed to "restoring confidence." During a news conference, Rousseff, Brazil's first female president, said what is happening to her is "the most brutal of things that can happen to a human being — to be condemned for a crime you didn't commit." She stands accused of illegally hiding large budget deficits.

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