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Electoral Court decides this week on continuity of Temer's presidency
Brazilian President Michel Temer is facing a terrible week, with a court theoretically annulling his presidency and forcing him to step down from office. Temer is widely expected to find a way to escape this. But the mere fact that a court is considering such a thing shows the depths of uncertainty in Latin America’s biggest country as it tries to survive in a huge corruption scandal, a two-year recession and record unemployment. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesBRAZIL’S BIG MEDIA IGNORES TEMER’S CONFESSION — EXCEPT ESTADÃO COLUMNIST WHO FALSELY CLAIMED VIDEO WAS ALTERED
Apr 02nd, 2017 - 10:12 am - Link - Report abuse 0“Michel Temer, admitted that what triggered the impeachment process was not any supposed “budgetary crimes,” but rather Dilma’s opposition to the neoliberal platform of social program cuts and privatization demanded by Temer’s party and the big-business interests that fund it … There’s a reason Reporters Without Borders dropped Brazil to 104th in its world press freedom rankings and denounced the country’s large corporate media as a threat to democracy and a free press.
https://theintercept.com/2016/09/23/brazils-big-media-ignores-temers-confession-except-estadao-columnist-who-falsely-claimed-video-was-altered/
Coupe by any other name is still a coupe.
And a limousine by any other name is a limousine.
Apr 03rd, 2017 - 01:07 am - Link - Report abuse 0But what are you trying to say about the Temer administration? Are you implying that it is being driven at insanely high speeds down the highway, that it is taking the corners recklessly, that it is running the stops?
The ACCURATE news is: “Electoral Court decides this week in favor of the continuity of Temer's presidency”
Apr 04th, 2017 - 03:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Commenting for this story is now closed.
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