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Brazil political system in shock: police question Lula da Silva for three hours and raid his properties

Friday, March 4th 2016 - 21:10 UTC
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Brazilian police on Friday questioned former President Lula da Silva for over three hours and searched his home and other properties linked to him and his family, one of the most dramatic developments yet in the sprawling corruption case at the oil giant Petrobras. Read full article

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  • Brasileiro

    The US Embassy has something to say?

    Set the shoot to kill! Because if you do not kill Lula, in 2018 the United States and all English-speaking countries can say goodbye to their embassies in Brasilia.

    Mar 04th, 2016 - 09:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • L0B0MAU

    It was shocking that the raid did not take place a long time ago!
    According to BBC:
    http://www.einnews.com/yicha/article/314906458/ZKIjRYdlUMmskpyu

    Mar 04th, 2016 - 10:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Brasileiro

    https://www.facebook.com/jornalistaslivres/?fref=ts

    #naovaitergolpe

    Brasil247

    tijolaço

    viomundo

    dcm

    redebrasilatual

    Mar 04th, 2016 - 10:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Marti Llazo

    @1 Brasshole: “ Set the shoot to kill! ”

    Too late. All your base are belong to us.

    Mar 05th, 2016 - 12:50 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Brasileiro

    Kkkkkkkk

    Mar 05th, 2016 - 01:29 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ilsen

    yawn...
    I have been saying for many years that Lula is deeply corrupt.
    Nothing new to add here.

    Mar 05th, 2016 - 01:50 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Skip

    Oh no!

    We will have to close our embassy in Brazil?

    Then how will all the students and migrants to Australia get their visas?

    Poor Rousseff..... running out of people to hide behind!

    Mar 05th, 2016 - 02:42 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ChrisR

    Imagine the questioning:

    Q) Well, Lula old chum, did you thieve any money from anybody?

    A) Of course not my friend, have this bag of dollars for your family: NOT for you of course!

    Well I think that clears it up, shall we watch a porn movie for a couple of hours just to make everybody think you are 'helping with our enquiries?

    Mar 05th, 2016 - 12:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • L0B0MAU

    1º: Just When You Think Brazil Hit Bottom, It Sinks Even Lower: http://www.nasdaq.com/article/just-when-you-think-brazil-hit-bottom-it-sinks-even-lower-cm588260
    2º: Corruption allegations stagger troubled Brazil:
    3º: http://www.nasdaq.com/article/just-when-you-think-brazil-hit-bottom-it-sinks-even-lower-cm588260
    Delcídio acerta acordo de delação premiada (e Dilma e Lula estão com o cu na reta): http://www.nasdaq.com/article/just-when-you-think-brazil-hit-bottom-it-sinks-even-lower-cm588260

    As I said before; the stage has now crossed in Brazil where #1:some form of an emergency & #2:”Collorr-Style Theft [GOLPE] are inevitable!
    That's the reason, why many Brazilians are already:
    - buying gold,
    - buying foreign currency
    - transferring their hard-earned capital abroad
    - seeking jobs abroad
    - immigrating to other countries [including some of those in Latin America - including Venezuela!]

    Mar 05th, 2016 - 12:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Brasileiro

    Look, if someone wants to leave Brazil, all right. Pay exit taxes and bon voyage.

    Brazil is done by men, not for money.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mmf5s7NCay8&list=FLmXPTu1f8AdGlizWNiASx2A&index=23

    Mar 05th, 2016 - 01:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Skip

    Before Brazil's economy sank, Brazilians were the third largest nationality of international students in Australia after China and India.

    Seems BRICS want an Australian degree and residency.

    Also Brazilians was one of the fastest growing nation for migrant was well.

    Mar 05th, 2016 - 01:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • L0B0MAU

    REF:10 Brasileiro (#):
    As I said before; the stage is now set in Brazil where #1:some form of an emergency & #2:”Collorr-Style Theft [GOLPE] are inevitable!

    Mar 05th, 2016 - 02:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • SauveQuiPeut

    Lula's Workers' Party reacted angrily...with a hashtag reading “LulaPoliticalPrisoner.”

    These people DO realise which party is actually governing Brazil...don't they...?

    Mar 05th, 2016 - 02:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Brasileiro

    Yes. We are the Brazil!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHkoA9YJ5GE

    Mar 05th, 2016 - 04:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Captain Poppy

    It's about time they start cleaning up all the piss and shit spilled all over the place from those corrupt demigods. She will fall by the summer.

    Mar 05th, 2016 - 06:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Jack Bauer

    Lula Pixuleco 171......can't wait to see the SOB wearing his black and white striped uniform....

    Mar 05th, 2016 - 06:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Don Alberto

    Of course the Brasil political system is in shock.

    What?!? Corruption is illegal?!? Since When?

    Mar 06th, 2016 - 11:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • L0B0MAU

    The Brazilian Earthquake:
    #1: http://www.einnews.com/yicha/article/315131476/BBD2aZkvr2cYTljA
    #2: http://www.einnews.com/yicha/article/315131476/BBD2aZkvr2cYTljA

    Mar 07th, 2016 - 07:34 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Jack Bauer

    @18 LoBoMAU
    Pepe Escobar, the author of the aticle in the first link, is clearly a Lula / PT supporter.....he questions the Lava-Jato investigation as if it has been 'created' with the sole purpose of going after Lula. He prefers to ignore how the investigatioin started, and how the evidence lead to the LulaRat....whom, by now, anybody with half a brain knows he's up to his eyeballs in sh*t.

    Mar 07th, 2016 - 04:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ChrisR

    Just to prove that the end is nigh for LULA and the BRICS:
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2016/03/06/downfall-of-brazils-lula-marks-end-of-brics-fantasy/

    ”The dream of a BRICS ascendancy has ended in sadness and squalor after the iconic figure of the era was seized by police at his home here, to the rapturous applause of Brazil’s stock exchange.

    Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, or “Lula” to the world, is sacrosanct no more. The once beloved president – and former Fiat car worker – who came to personify Brazil’s seeming rise to prosperity and global stature is under criminal investigation for his role in the ever-spreading Lava Jato (car wash) scandal.“

    I just love: ”to the rapturous applause of Brazil’s stock exchange.”

    Ha, ha, ha.

    Mar 07th, 2016 - 07:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • L0B0MAU

    The politicians after all are in power, NOT to improve the quality of life and the standard of living of those who elected them but only to make hay while the sun shines!

    Mar 08th, 2016 - 11:48 am - Link - Report abuse 0

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