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Brazil

  • Thursday, April 28th 2016 - 07:27 UTC

    Amnesty said killings in Rio's favelas have increased alarmingly ahead of Olympics

    “Residents in many of Rio de Janeiro's favelas are living in terror after at least 11 people have been killed in police shootings since the beginning of the month”

    Amnesty International said on Wednesday that residents of Olympic host Rio de Janeiro's slum favelas are “living in terror” after 11 people were killed in police shootings in the past month. The rights group said at least 307 people were killed by police in the city last year and called on Brazilian authorities to take action in the 100 days ahead of the start of the Rio Games on August 5.

  • Wednesday, April 27th 2016 - 07:32 UTC

    Only five of the Brazilian Senate 21-member committee declared support for Rousseff

    Although the temporary removal of Rousseff is taken for granted, a survey by Folha de São Paulo shows that there is still not enough votes in the Senate

    Brazil’s Senate chose the 21 members of a commission that will recommend whether or not to move forward with impeachment proceedings against embattled President Dilma Rousseff. As was expected, the Senate picked a committee stacked with supporters of impeachment that will report back on whether to put Rousseff on trial. Only five of the committee’s 21 members have declared their support for the populist president.

  • Wednesday, April 27th 2016 - 07:23 UTC

    Brazilians want fresh elections; only 8% support a government headed by Temer

    Just over 60% of respondents said that scenario would be the best way out of the crisis, although no such solution is stipulated under Brazil’s Constitution.

    A poll released on Monday showed Brazilians overwhelmingly favored the hypothetical resignation of both President Dilma Rousseff and her vice-president Michel Temer, followed by new presidential elections. Just over 60% of respondents said that scenario would be the best way out of the crisis, although no such solution is stipulated under Brazil’s Constitution.

  • Tuesday, April 26th 2016 - 09:11 UTC

    Brazil's main opposition party divided on support to a possible Temer government

    PSDB will support a government led by Michel Temer from the aisles of Congress if Rousseff is unseated, but the party is split over whether to join his cabinet.

    Brazil's largest opposition party is divided over how strongly to back a new interim government if it succeeds in having President Dilma Rousseff stripped of office, as it eyes a run at the presidency in 2018, senior members said on Monday.

  • Tuesday, April 26th 2016 - 09:02 UTC

    Lula warns that if Rousseff's impeachment advances, PT will resist in the streets

    The initiative seeking Rousseff's removal “is headed by corrupt politicians who are not accommodating themselves to the result at the polls,” Lula said.

    Former President Lula da Silva attacked on Monday the “gang” of lawmakers who “have implanted an agenda of chaos” in Brazil by pushing to impeach and remove incumbent head of state Dilma Rousseff. Lula participated in Sao Paulo in a seminar with representatives of leftist parties, including Italy's former Prime Minister Massimo D'Alema.

  • Monday, April 25th 2016 - 06:05 UTC

    Meirelles mentioned as Finance minister in a Vice-president Temer administration

    Folha reported Meirelles and Temer met in Brasilia. Meirelles told Folha he had agreed to advise Temer but had not been invited to join a potential cabinet.

    If Brazilian Vice President Michel Temer takes power, former central bank President Henrique Meirelles would accept the position of finance minister under the condition he was given approval rights over members of the entire economic team, newspaper Folha de S. Paulo reported on Sunday.

  • Saturday, April 23rd 2016 - 11:00 UTC

    Rousseff avoids the word 'coup' at the UN, but admits the grave moment Brazil is undergoing

    Proclaiming that her “soul had been cleansed,” Rousseff said she was newly determined to lead Latin America’s largest country

    With the prospect of an impeachment trial that can have her out of office next May, Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff appealed for international support on Friday during a visit to New York, broadcasting her claims that the campaign to oust her from office was little more than a coup d’état.

  • Saturday, April 23rd 2016 - 10:51 UTC

    Rousseff's bid for international support backfiring

    “In the past, coups were carried out with machine guns, tanks and weapons, today all you need are hands that are willing to tear up the Constitution”, said Rousseff

    Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff from New York accused her political opponents as “coup mongers” and “conspirators” and insisted she would fight to the very end the impeachment process to remove her from office. But her attacks faced a solid defense in Brazil including from members of the Supreme Court who expressed concern the president was questioning Brazil's institutions before the world.

  • Thursday, April 21st 2016 - 12:34 UTC

    Mounting evidence against Lula da Silva at Brazil's Supreme Court

    Rousseff appointed Lula da Silva to the chief of staff job March 16 to help her battle the impeachment effort.

    Brazil's Supreme Court on Wednesday suspended a meeting that was to decide whether former President Lula da Silva can be his successor's chief of staff. The delay came three days after the lower house of Congress voted to begin impeachment proceedings against President Dilma Rousseff. She is accused of using accounting tricks in managing the federal budget.

  • Thursday, April 21st 2016 - 11:22 UTC

    Rousseff will claim before UN she is victim of a “coup d'état without weapons”

    Rousseff aides said the populist leader would attend a U.N. event Friday in New York, where she will denounce as illegal the attempt to impeach her.

    Embattled Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff will travel to New York in a bid to rally international support against her impeachment, leaving behind a Cabinet paralyzed by political crisis as another minister defected Wednesday.