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Mensalão Case Condemns 3 More: Daily
By Lucy Jordan, Senior Contributing Reporter
BRASÍLIA, BRAZIL – A majority in the Supreme Court has found three of the four mensalão defendants connected to...
Mensalão Trial Votes on 4 Defendants: Daily
By Lucy Jordan, Senior Contributing Reporter
BRASÍLIA, BRAZIL - It is expected that the first verdicts of the mensalão, a sprawling corruption trial involving some...
Mensalão Corruption Trial Begins in Brazil
By Lucy Jordan, Senior Contributing Reporter
BRASÍLIA, BRAZIL – Seven years after the scandal surfaced, Brazil’s Supreme Court on Thursday, August 2nd began to hear...
Brazil: Lula confirms the nomination of his lawyer Cristiano Zanin to the Supreme Court
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT), 77, said on Thursday (1) that he would appoint his lawyer Cristiano Zanin Martins, 47, to the...
You can’t govern a country with a thirst for revenge, says a leading Brazil newspaper about Lula
An editorial in the newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo ('Estadão'), the third largest newspaper in Brazil, published this Tuesday (Feb. 21), stated that...
Disappointed allies say Lula and PT party spread fake news, want to change the past and have schizophrenic discourse
A little over a month after the inauguration, politicians who supported the so-called "broad front" to bring down Bolsonaro are disappointed with President Lula...
Lula says he does not govern for the market, criticizes Lava Jato, and cites “neutral appointment” for the STF
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) criticized the financial market and the president of the Central Bank, Roberto Campos Neto, again on Thursday...
Lula meets the radical left in the US and tries to shield Latin American allies
By Wesley Oliveira
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) landed on Thursday (9) in the United States of America to focus his agenda on...
Glenn Greenwald accepts debate on Moraes’ acts
On Saturday the 14th, journalist Glenn Greenwald accepted a debate with Rocha Celso de Barros, a columnist for Folha de S.Paulo, to address the...
Brazil: Lula da Silva to remove 8,000 military commissioned positions if elected
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Workers' Party - PT) said on April 4 that he intends to...
Opinion: Brazil’s Centrão – Slouching towards Bedlam?
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - (Opinion) “Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; mere anarchy is loosed upon the world… And what rough beast,...
Opinion: The historical roots of the “secret budget” in Brazil, aka the “Bolsolão”, explained
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – (Opinion) The title for this essay could have been “How the 300 Scoundrels morphed into the Centrão and want...
Brazil’s Bolsonaro says he will decide in March 2022 whether to seek reelection
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - President Jair Bolsonaro said on Wednesday (27) that he would decide in March of next year whether to run...
Opinion: The Ambassador, the Centrão, and the Semi-presidential Express. All Aboard in Brazil?
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - (Opinion) On his way out the door, U.S. Ambassador to Brazil Todd Chapman, who is taking early retirement, said...