(Reuters) — Brazilians burnt effigies of President Michel Temer in a Sao Paulo street on Monday (July 10) to denounce moves by the conservative government to push through with reforms that protesters say will take away work and pension rights. Temer replaced impeached leftist President Dilma Rousseff just over a year ago with a vow to turn around the economic fortunes of Brazil’s flailing economy via austerity measures. But allegations of corruption have dogged his administration […]
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Graft charge against Brazil’s president filed in Congress
BRASILIA, Brazil (AFP) — Brazil’s Supreme Court on Thursday sent a corruption charge against President Michel Temer to Congress for it to decide whether the president should be put on trial. Although just a formality, the handover of the case meant one more step forward in the growing crisis that threatens to bring down Temer just over a year after he took power following his predecessor’s impeachment. The center-right leader this week became the first […]





