Brazil’s Leader Reports ‘Political Disintegration’
From Reuters
RIO DE JANEIRO — President Jose Sarney was quoted Sunday as saying that Brazil was undergoing a process of “political disintegration.”
“This crisis . . . if we do not have the courage and force to stop it, will have an unforeseeable outcome,” Sarney said in an interview published in the daily newspaper O Globo.
Sarney came to power in 1985 upon the death of President-elect Tancredo Neves, after 21 years of military rule.
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