Argentina's Macri First World Leader to Back Ouster of Rousseff

[Judi Lynn]

Argentina's Macri First World Leader to Back Ouster of Rousseff
Published 12 May 2016 (5 hours 25 minutes ago)

Temer shares the same neoliberal approach as Macri, as well as his approach to the United States.


Argentine President Mauricio Macri is the first world leader to congratulate Michel Temer on becoming Brazil's interim president after staging her ouster in the Senate—a congratulations that came after Temer was first tricked by an Argentine radio host impersonating the head of state.

"The Argentine government expresses its respect to the institutional process underway," Macri said in a statement, released just a few hours after the impeachment process was approved on Thursday.

"Given the events happening in Brazil, the Argentine government is confident that the outcome of this situation will consolidate the strength of Brazilian democracy," the statement reads.

Temer was victim of a prank earlier, however, when radio El Mundo called him and host Jorge Garcia pretended to be President Macri. He congratulated Temer for his “climb," and Temer accepted the compliment and told him that he wanted to visit him in Argentina.

By contrast, Ecuador became the first government to offer support to President Dilma Rousseff, calling her ouster a threat to democracy.

“The Ecuadorean government backs Brazil and the constitutional government of President Rousseff, legitimate custodian of the popular mandate expressed in the last democratic elections," the statement said, referring to Rousseff's 2014 victory.

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[Ghost Dog]

1. same neoliberal approach

... Temer – a senior figure in the centrist Brazilian Democratic Movement party – was elected on Rousseff’s coat-tails in 2014, but recently abandoned his former government partner on the grounds that the country needed new leadership to get out of its deepest recession in decades.

The economy was the focus of his first speech. “It is essential to rebuild the credibility of the country abroad to attract new investments and get the economy growing again,” he said...

... Although he promised to maintain welfare programmes such as bolsa familia poverty relief, he has touted balancing the budget and getting inflation back under 10% as his priority....

... Whether this tough task can be achieved will depend largely on new finance minister Henrique Meirelles, who gained considerable kudos as central bank president under the first two Workers’ party governments. He will be charged with reining in expenses and encouraging other ministers to push ahead with privatisation, outsourcing and weakening stringent labour and pension laws...

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/13/michel-temer-brazil-president-rebuild-impeachment

Austerity (Disaster) Capitalism.