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Brazilians appear on the cusp of handing the presidency to a brash former army captain who has reminisced fondly about dictatorship, pledged to jail corrupt politicians and promised an all-out war on the drugs and crime that plague South America's largest nation. Far-right congressman Jair Bolsonaro just missed outright victory in Sunday's vote, and will face former Sao Paulo Mayor Fernando Haddad of the leftist Workers' Party in an Oct. 28 runoff.
A supporter of Federal deputy Jair Bolsonaro wears a mask of U.S. President Donald Trump before the national convention of the Party for Socialism and Liberation where he is to be formalized as a candidate for the Presidency of the Republic, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil July 22, 2018. Photo - Reuters/Ricardo Moraes/File A supporter of Federal deputy Jair Bolsonaro wears a mask of U.S. President Donald Trump before the national convention of the Party for Socialism and Liberation where he is to be formalized as a candidate for the Presidency of the Republic, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil July 22, 2018.
Appellate court judges have voted to uphold a graft conviction against da Silva, rai... . A woman cries during a demonstration in support of Brazilian former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2018.
The permanent ouster of deeply unpopular President Dilma Rousseff by Brazil's Senate means that a man who is arguably just as unpopular is now faced with trying to ease the wounds of a divided nation mired in recession. Long known as an uncharismatic backroom wheeler-dealer, Michel Temer inherits a shrinking economy, a Zika virus outbreak that has ravaged poor northeastern states and political instability fed by a sprawling corruption probe that has tarred much of the country's political and business elite-himself included.