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BRAZILIAN President Dilma Rousseff vowed to “defend democracy” on Tuesday after her opposition-party deputy accidentally leaked his inauguration speech drafted for the event of her removal by impeachment.
Vice-President Michel Temer sent a 13-minute recording of his planned speech to fellow congress members ahead of the lower house’s vote on whether to impeach Ms Rousseff.
Mr Temer claimed he had not meant to send the speech via an instant messaging application.
Sovereignty and the rule of law are under threat from Trump’s attacks on Lula’s administration just as they have been across Latin America, argue CARLOS MARTINEZ and SARA VIVACQUA
Powerful agribusiness interests are trying to overturn efforts by the Lula government to protect the environment and indigenous peoples of the Amazon region, writes GABRIELA SA PESSOA
Newly revealed documents reveal that MI5 taught Brazilian secret police the techniques deployed by the 1964-85 military dictatorship in horrific prisons like Rio de Janeiro’s House of Death. SARA VIVACQUA reports