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- <text id=93TT0898>
- <title>
- Jan. 11, 1993: Collor Out, Franco In
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Jan. 11, 1993 Megacities
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK
- WORLD, Page 13
- Collor Out, Franco In
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>An unrepentant President departs, claiming a political
- lynching
- </p>
- <p> Having insisted for months that the word resign was not in
- his vocabulary, Brazilian President Fernando Collor de Mello
- surprised even his few remaining supporters last week when he
- announced, minutes after his impeachment trial began, that he
- was stepping down. By resigning, Collor hoped to safeguard his
- political future, but the Senate barred him from holding office
- for eight years. Collor called the trial a "summary execution"
- and the sentence, which he will appeal, a "farce." Citizen
- Collor still faces criminal charges of corruption that carry
- jail penalties.
- </p>
- <p> In order to show his own honesty in contrast to Collor's,
- the new President, Itamar Franco, presented a list of all his
- personal assets to the president of Congress before taking
- office.
- </p>
-
- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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