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Judi Lynn

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Fri May 13, 2016, 12:13 AM May 2016

Brazil's new acting leader Michel Temer mistakes a journalist for Argentina's Mauricio Macri

Brazil's new acting leader Michel Temer mistakes a journalist for Argentina's Mauricio Macri

Date May 13, 2016 - 11:02AM

Buenos Aires: Brazil's interim President Michel Temer, who took over on Thursday after Dilma Rousseff was suspended as the country's leader, mistook a journalist from a Buenos Aires radio station for Argentinian President Mauricio Macri.

"How are you, president? ... I want to visit you in Argentina," Temer told the journalist at El Mundo shortly before taking up the presidency. During the brief conversation announcer Jorce Garcia did not introduce himself and never clarified that he was not, in fact, Macri.

More:
http://www.theage.com.au/world/brazils-new-acting-leader-michel-temer-mistakes-a-journalist-for-argentinas-mauricio-macri-20160512-gou6ja.html

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