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Topic: Dilma Rousseff

Dilma Rousseff (AP/Eraldo Peres)

Ben Norton
Brazilian activists burn a poster reading "Republic of the Coup," with the images of Senate President Renan Calheiros (L) and right-wing interim President Michel Temer, at a protest in Sao Paulo, Brazil on May 12, 2016 (Reuters/Nacho Doce)

Ben Norton
Brazil' acting President Michel Temer (AP/Eraldo Peres)

Brazil's right-wing coup

Marshall Eakin - The Conversation
Women shout slogans during a protest against Brazil's interim President Michel Temer and in support of suspended President Dilma Rousseff in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on May 17, 2016. The banner reads "Dilma stays, Temer out" (Reuters/Nacho Doce)

The Brazil "coup" explained

Ben Norton
George W. Bush, Dilma Rousseff (Reuters/Jim Young/Joedson Alves)

The exceptionalism crock

Luke Brinker
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Jenny Barchfield