Dilma Rousseff; Marcela Temer; Michel Temer

brazil's president

The daunting tasks facing Brazil’s new president

Economics

Brazil’s new president, Michel Temer, has an unusually short time to get through an unusual — even daunting — list of tasks, starting with fixing one of the world’s biggest economies.

Marcela Temer, wife of Brazil's Vice President Michel Temer, at the inauguration ceremony for President Dilma Rousseff in Brasilia on Jan. 1, 2011.

Brazil’s next first lady a ‘beautiful, demure housewife’? Cue the memes.

Global Politics
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