Temer Convicted of Breaking Election Laws As Thousands March for Democracy in Brazil

Upheaval in Brazil continued this week as a court handed down a conviction against right-wing president Michel Temer, who took over after the ouster of leftist president Dilma Rousseff, and banned him from running in elections for the next eight years.

A regional elections court in Temer's hometown of São Paulo on Thursday "issued a formal decree finding him guilty and declaring him...read more.