World & Nation
Former Brazilian President Michel Temer has been arrested in connection with a widespread corruption investigation that has already ensnared scores of the country’s business leaders and politicians.
March 21, 2019
Acknowledging the unlikelihood of his reelection, Brazil’s deeply unpopular president said he wasn’t running and endorsed his former finance minister for the top office less than five months before voters in Latin America’s largest nation pick a new leader.
May 23, 2018
Brazilian President Michel Temer triumphed Friday in a court case that had threatened to boot him from office and drive the country deeper into political chaos.
June 9, 2017
Brazilian President Michel Temer came out unscathed Wednesday after the lower house of Congress voted against his removal from office amid a heated debate that saw punches thrown and money tossed in the air as a symbol of the corruption accusations against him.
Aug. 2, 2017
Brazil’s political crisis deepened sharply on Thursday with corruption allegations that threatened to topple the president, undermine reforms aimed at pulling the economy from recession and leave Latin America’s largest nation rudderless.
May 18, 2017
Brazil’s interim President Michel Temer has pledged to build a “bridge to the future,” but the 75-year old lawyer has shocked much of the country by assembling a Cabinet that appears to have emerged from a previous century.
May 13, 2016
Brazil’s top prosecutor charged President Michel Temer with corruption in a 60-page indictment that said “he fooled Brazilian citizens” and owed the country millions in compensation after enriching himself with bribe money.
June 27, 2017
Protesters turned out by the thousands in heavy rain on Sunday to demand the impeachment of Brazilian President Michel Temer.
May 21, 2017
A Brazilian congressional committee has given a boost to embattled President Michel Temer by rejecting a colleague’s report that recommended he be suspended and tried on a corruption charge.
July 13, 2017