13. Oh Yeah, Rio Has Two Presidents Right Now
You heard it right: Brazil has two presidents right now, and not because they both ran for president and decided “it’d be more fun if we worked together!” Oh no, Rio is in a pretty bang up political state.
What’s happened is that the president elect, Dilma Rousseff, was removed from office in May of this year due to “administrative misconduct.” The president covered up over $20 billion of deficit, as well as sunk the country into a deeper recession. Vice president Michel Temer has been acting as interim president as the country begins the process of formally booting Dilma from office, holding impeachment trials, and, in all likelihood, holding new elections. However, Michel isn’t sitting on his hands while holding office; he’s begun a federal investigation into grand schemes of corruption throughout the country and has grand ideas of cleaning up a lot of Brazil’s problems, though rumors fly that he’s just as corrupt himself.
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