Brazil’s foreign ministry, Itamaraty, reacted combatively to criticism from leftist regional governments during the first week of the administration of acting president Michel Temer. Itamaraty issued a statement “rejecting emphatically the protests by the governments of Venezuela, Cuba, Bolivia, Ecuador and Nicaragua, as well as Alba [the Venezuelan-led leftist integration bloc]…for propagating falsehoods about Brazil’s internal political process [which, it argued, was] completely respectful of the federal democratic institutions and constitution”.
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