Members of the Munduruku tribe hold up a white sheet with a message written in Portuguese: "We're fighting for our forest" during a protest outside the Supreme Court, in Brasilia, Brazil, Thursday, Dec. 1, 2016. AP Photo/Eraldo Peres. All rights reserved.
In memory of former Minister of Justice, José de Alencar
In addition to being a politician and a constitutionalist lawyer, President Michel Temer is fond of writing poems, some of which have been published in a book, Anônima Intimidade (Anonymous Intimacy). Before him, other politicians had already ventured into literature. In 1980, Senator José Sarney managed to get himself a seat - chair No. 38 - at the Brazilian Academy of Letters, in spite of his doubtful literary abilities, as famous writer Millôr Fernandes duly warned.
