Tag: Cristovam Buarque

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

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

  

  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, June 15th 2011 - 20:22 UTC

  Dilma moving closer to the opposition and “taking distance from Lula da Silva”

  

  Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff has exchanged approximation signals with the opposition, beginning to “take distance” from her mentor Lula da Silva and seems closer to opposition Senator and former president Fernando Cardoso.