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She received many roses while being saluted by the crowd who sang songs of support to the first woman president of Brazil.

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“China has huge potential for us, and currently represents about 12% of Embraer’s export revenue”, the firm’s CEO, Paulo Cesar de Souza e Silva, said upon signing the deal. Yet, they have already been dispensing bitter medicine to the Brazilian people: reduced social spending, and, possibly, a tax hike.

“Temer’s administration has all the conditions needed to embark on a new route”, Philipp Schiemer, the head of Mercedes-Benz’s operations in Brazil, told reporters recently. This is a losing battle.

According to the BBC, Rousseff was impeached because she moved money between government budgets.

The protesters are part of a movement calling itself Passarinho that is behind most of the protests that have taken place in Buenos Aires against the impeachment.

In 2018, they may even form an alliance with the PMDB (Temer’s party), which would come as no surprise.

As for productivity, the government is focused on reducing waste caused by insufficient infrastructure construction in recent decades. When you hit bottom, there is nowhere to go but up.

“At one level, these people fear for their reputations”, Sotero said.

In office for a week, after Dilma Rousseff’s removal, national celebrations should have been a happy occasion for the conservative politician, coinciding with the start of Brazil hosting the Paralympic Games.

Some of the arguments Ms Rousseff deployed in two days of evidence before the Senate were mere propaganda.

Turkey doesn’t even want to join the EU. Their corruption, if proved, is venal and personal. But some of them are clearly hypocrites. This is the second coup that I have faced in my life. The “coup” narrative will remain in people’s minds, and PT supporters will keep trying to erase the past. He is accused of receiving $5 million in bribes from a construction company related to Petrobras, the semi-public Brazilian petroleum company. This is characteristic of Rousseff. The idea is to show that the system is unsustainable and needs restructuring. Michel Temer, Brazil’s former vice president, has been sworn in as the country’s new president.

Maggi is a prominent member of the Agricultural Parliamentary Front (or ruralistas) that have long argued for land reform so that protected forests can be chopped down for crops, cattle and mining, with the products sold abroad. The three jurists who presented the motion for impeachment – Janaína Paschoal, Miguel Reale Júnior and Hélio Bicudo – believe that they identified two such crimes. We, the people, didn’t deserve this impeachment process, especially since criminals were involved in the process. They all chat at coffee breaks and comfort each other, drying their fake tears. She was subsequently removed from office. This leads to an overall budget deficit of close to 10% of GDP. Now most of that will be rolled back. But it had to be paid for.

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Protest demonstrations against her policies and against what then appeared to be the profligacy of the Olympics loosened her grip. The concessions just deflated the popular enthusiasm that put PT in office in 2002. Many said Peña Nieto, who has an approval rating of 23 percent, was trying to create a distraction away from his own problems. It has been translated into English and edited for clarity.

A demonstrator holds up a sign against Brazil's