Vice President Michel Temer has become the Brazilian government’s Indispensable Man, its main buffer against the swirling turmoil that threatens to overwhelm President Dilma Rousseff and undermine her economic recovery program.
Temer played that role most recently late last week as he kept the ruling coalition together by refusing to join the leader of Congress’s lower house, Eduardo Cunha, in breaking with the government.
And on Tuesday, he sought to ease the sense of rising tension created by internal dissent, economic recession and corruption probes targeting politicians such as Cunha and former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, dismissing the situation as nothing more than a “crisezinha” — a small crisis.
Brazil Energy Insight 
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