Tag: Fora Temer

• Thursday, May 25th 2017 - 20:27 UTC

  Public opinion forces Temer to withdraw troops from streets of Brasilia

  

  Brazil's President Michel Temer called troops back off the streets of the capital Thursday after deploying them to guard government buildings following riots by protesters demanding he quit. A decree published online in the official journal said the president had revoked an earlier measure to deploy 1,500 federal troops -- a delicate issue in a country with living memory of a military dictatorship.

• Thursday, May 25th 2017 - 10:54 UTC

  Chaos taking hold of Brazil; a desperate Temer calls in the military to restore order

  

  Brazil’s president ordered the military to restore order in the country’s capital Wednesday after some government ministries were evacuated during clashes between police and protesters who are seeking the leader’s ouster. Tens of thousands of demonstrators marched to Congress to protest economic reforms that President Michel Temer is pushing through and to demand he step down amid a corruption scandal.

• Monday, May 22nd 2017 - 07:15 UTC

  Temer's time running out; economic reforms delayed; possible names to succeed the discredited president

  

  Demonstrators marched across Brazil on Sunday calling for the resignation or ouster of President Michel Temer who is implicated in a widening corruption scandal that is undermining his government's fragile efforts to end a historic recession. Protests took place in cities including São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, where hundreds of demonstrators marched along the shoreline, chanting and waving banners reading “Temer Out!”

• Saturday, November 12th 2016 - 21:31 UTC

  Demostrators rally in Sao Paulo against Temer's adjustment proposals

  

  Protesters Friday blocked some of Sao Paulo's main avenues to object to the the bill to freeze public spending for 20 years. Others set roadblocks with tires at the Vía Dutra, which links Sao Paulo with Rio de Janeiro, and Via Anchieta, the main road between the city and the coast.

• Monday, September 5th 2016 - 11:55 UTC

  Sao Paulo police disperse five days of demonstrations against removal of Rousseff and calls for fresh elections

  

  Police in Sao Paulo, Brazil's financial and industrial hub, used tear gas on Sunday to disperse thousands of demonstrators at the end of a peaceful march to protest the removal of populist president Dilma Rousseff last week in an impeachment trial.