Brazil

Our prediction that the cabinet of Brazil's new president Michel Temer would not last long received its first validation just 10 days after the impeachment of Dilma Rousseff, when a recording was leaked in which Brazil's new Planning Minister under Temer, Romero Juca, was overheard explaining how the removal of Rousseff would "prevent the wide corruption probe dubbed Carwash from proceeding." This prompted many to wonder if Rousseff was indeed correct all along claiming a silent, US-sponsored coup had taken place in Brazil, one in which the cost of sweeping the Carwash scandal under the rug

Back on May 12, when Brazil's disgraced president Dilma Rousseff was impeached in a move that according to her was a "coup" and a "farce", we said that "Brazil's problems are only just starting" because "if Brazil is indeed seeking to cleanse its corrupt political class, Temer is hardly the right guy to do it.

Hot on the heels of Brazilian soccer star Rivaldo's warning to "stay home, your life is at risk," the Taiwanese Animators have created a 'Public Service Announcement' that Brazil should just cancel the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro because no one really wants to die attending them.

The CIA has an extensive record of carrying out covert operations around the globe which are aimed at destabilizing governments that refuse to comply with U.S. interests. On Thursday Michel Temer became the acting president in Brazil after a soft coup saw President Rousseff suspended.

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.