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FILE - In this May 12, 2016, file photo, Brazil's acting President Michel Temer arrives to address the nation at Planalto presidential palace in Brasilia, Brazil, after the Senate voted to suspend President Dilma Rousseff pending an impeachment trial. To say that Temer faces huge challenges would be an understatement. At 75 he must fight the Zika virus, rescue Latin America’s largest economy from its worst recession since the 1930s, win back the trust of a populace that has come to believe virtually all politicians, including him, are corrupt and begin these tasks with the Summer Olympics months away and while his predecessor Dilma Rousseff is living in the presidential residence and rallying supporters around claims she was the victim of a coup. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres, File)
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