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Opinion: Brazil’s Lamentable Lame Duck Presidency

Opinion, by Michael Royster

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Brazil’s last quarter 2018 saw the election of Jair Bolsonaro, who began immediately to act as if he were already President. Lame duck Michel Temer, the least popular President in Brazil’s history, readily acquiesced to doing Bolsonaro’s bidding upon request.

Two of Temer’s lame duck actions have already had adverse consequences.

Lame Duck 1: the extradition of Cesare Battisti. Battisti is . . .

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