Tag: Michel Temer

• Saturday, March 3rd 2018 - 10:43 UTC

  Brazil back on the growth path in 2017 after two years of contraction

  

  Brazil's economy grew by a percentage point in 2017 after two years of contraction, government figures showed Thursday, confirming the South American giant's recovery from one of the worst recessions in its history. The agro-industrial sector led the way with 13% growth last year, trailed by the service sector, which showed 0.3% growth. Industrial output remained stable.

• Saturday, March 3rd 2018 - 10:39 UTC

  Prosecution wants Temer included in Odebrecht payments investigation

  

  Prosecutor general, Raquel Dodge, requested Brazilian Supreme Court justice, Edson Fachin, to include president Michel Temer in the list of those under investigation in an inquiry launched last year to determine Odebrecht's alleged payments to the Brazilian Democratic Movement (MDB) party in 2014.

• Wednesday, February 28th 2018 - 10:00 UTC

  Brazilian presidential hopeful would support privatization of Petrobras

  

  The governor of Sao Paulo and likely centrist presidential candidate Geraldo Alckmin said that he would privatize Brazil's state-run oil company Petrobras if he wins the elections in October.

• Wednesday, February 28th 2018 - 09:41 UTC

  Brazil's Public Security minister takes office sacking the head of the Federal Police

  

  Fernando Segovia, the director general of Brazil's federal police which spearhead the country's sprawling corruption cases, was replaced on Tuesday, the press office of the newly created Public Security Ministry said in a statement.

• Monday, February 26th 2018 - 09:45 UTC

  Corruption allegedly involving president Temer will be probed by top prosecutor

  

  Brazil’s top prosecutor has obtained a Supreme Court order to lift the bank secrecy of several people and companies under investigation in a port corruption case that has implicated President Michel Temer.

• Tuesday, February 20th 2018 - 09:48 UTC

  Brazilian Army law and order experience in Rio, is tempting other states

  

  Brazilian leaders said on Monday that the use of the military to combat rising violence in Rio de Janeiro could serve as a model for other violent areas of Brazil. The armed forces officially took over Rio’s police on Friday under a decree signed by president Michel Temer. The measure still requires congressional approval, and the lower house was to debate it late Monday.

• Tuesday, February 20th 2018 - 09:43 UTC

  Brazilian government admits crucial pensions' reform will be hard to pass Congress

  

  Brazil’s political affairs minister Carlos Marun said on Monday that passage of a bill to overhaul the country’s costly social security system has effectively ground to a halt in Congress and would become a campaign issue in this year’s election.

• Monday, February 19th 2018 - 09:25 UTC

  Temer announces the creation of a public security ministry

  

  Brazilian President Michel Temer has announced the creation of a public security ministry after giving the military full control over security in crime-plagued Rio de Janeiro. Temer came to the city to meet Governor Luiz Fernando Pezao, several ministers and General Walter Souza Braga Netto, who will lead the operation and who was in charge of coordinating security when the city hosted the 2016 Olympic Games.

• Saturday, February 17th 2018 - 09:42 UTC

  Temer has Rio do Janeiro under full military control to combat gang violence

  

  Brazil's President Michel Temer on Friday handed the military full control of security in Rio de Janeiro in an increasingly desperate fight to tame runaway gang violence. Army patrols are already used in Rio's gang-ruled favelas, but a decree signed by Temer will now give the military full control of security operations in Rio state, which the president said had virtually been seized by organized crime gangs.

• Wednesday, February 14th 2018 - 09:54 UTC

  Temer said that Brazil will continue to receive Venezuelan refugees

  

  Brazil will not block Venezuelans from entering the country through the border in the northern state of Roraima, but has launched a task force to organize the flow and provide resources for cities and states dealing with the refugees.