Acting president of Brazil names all-male cabinet

Michel Temer.
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Hours after Brazil's Senate voted Thursday to impeach President Dilma Rousseff and her cabinet was dismissed, acting President Michel Temer named the 21 members of his new, less-diverse cabinet.

When Rousseff started her second term last year, six of her 39 Cabinet members were women, including the only black minister in the government. Temer's cabinet consists of all white men, The Associated Press reports, and three have been implicated in the corruption investigation at the state-run oil company Petrobras.

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.