Another US-Sponsored Coup? WikiLeaks: “Brazil’s New President Temer Was An Embassy Informant For US Intelligence, Military”

Another US-Sponsored Coup? Brazil’s New President Was An Embassy Informant For US Intelligence:

When we explained yesterday the next steps in the Dilma Rousseff impeachment process, we predicted that “Brazil’s problems are only just starting” for several reasons, chief among them being that the man who is now Brazil’s next active president, Michel Temer, is almost as unpopular as the president he is replacing, and is stained by scandals of his own.

Michel Temer Brazil

As AP noted, “Michel Temer, who hasn’t won an election on his own in a decade, is famed as a backstage wheeler-dealer, and his critics say he’s leading the plot to replace his boss, embattled President Dilma Rousseff.” And with Temer now the acting president, the AP frames the big question as follows: can he avoid ouster himself.

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