The economic and political crisis facing Brazil’s acting President Michel Temer is unprecedented

Brasilia (dpa) – Brazil’s acting president Michel Temer called Thursday for a “government of national salvation” after a Senate impeachment vote that suspended President Dilma Rousseff from office. In his first presidential address to the nation, Temer, Rousseff’s former vice president and leader of the centrist Brazilian Democratic Movement (PMDB), said the country’s political parties and…

Brazil’s Senate just voted to put President Dilma Rousseff on trial for impeachment for breaking financial rules, a move that has pushed her out of office, at least temporarily. She has to step down for up to 180 days while senators investigate her. Then the Senate will hold a final vote on whether she should be…