Tag: Congress
By Ben Tavener, Senior Contributing Reporter
SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – The Brazilian Senate has approved by a wide majority a bill that changes rules governing how the country’s ports are regulated, in a victory for the ruling government, despite last-minute...
By Lucy Jordan and Leo Byrne, Contributing Reporters
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – After some five hours of impassioned speeches and spirited debate, Brazil’s Congress early Thursday morning voted to overturn President Dilma Rousseff’s line-item vetoes of a new oil...
By Ben Tavener, Senior Contributing Reporter
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The Supreme Court (STF) in Brazil, deep in the middle of its long-running judgment of their biggest ever political corruption case, the mensalão scandal has now condemned 22 of the 37...
By Ben Tavener, Senior Contributing Reporter
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Brazil's Minister for National Integration Fernando Bezerra Coelho has become the latest in a string of President Dilma Rousseff’s ministers to have come under fire following allegations of corruption. The minister...
Opinion, by Samantha Barthelemy
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – You know the saying that people will not take you seriously unless you take yourself seriously first? The same goes for respect, and this seems to be a major problem in...
