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Montevideo, February 9th 2026 - 01:14 UTC

Tag: Dilma Rousseff

  • Saturday, July 18th 2015 - 08:10 UTC

    Rousseff, ever so weakened and isolated warns of “anti democratic adventures”

    Rousseff comments came just hours after the speaker of the lower house of Congress, Eduardo Cunha, broke ties with her government

    Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff told regional peers on Friday there is no room for “anti-democratic adventures” in South America, a day after the speaker of Brazil's lower house said he was weighing legal arguments for her impeachment. Speaking to the heads of state of Mercosur, Rousseff said political leaders should strive for dialogue to resolve ideological differences.

  • Friday, July 17th 2015 - 04:48 UTC

    Brazil's corruption scandals reach Lula da Silva: probe into influence peddling

    The probe targets Lula's alleged use of his clout after leaving office to help construction giant Odebrecht land billion-dollar contracts in Latam and Africa.

    Prosecutors in Brazil have announced a probe into possible influence peddling by former president Lula da Silva, involving the construction firm Odebrecht which is one of Latin America's largest engineering company. The investigation will center on Lula's alleged use of his clout after leaving office to help scandal-ridden construction giant Odebrecht land billion-dollar contracts in Latin America and Africa.

  • Thursday, July 16th 2015 - 09:28 UTC

    Paraguay, as chair of the group, determined to return Mercosur to 'its roots'

    “The idea of the meeting was to elaborate on how to return Mercosur to its roots, that is its trade and commercial profile and less politics” said Loizaga.

    Paraguay is committed to return Mercosur to 'its roots', reach an agreement on some of the original fundamentals, eliminate restrictions to inter-trade and strongly promote the trade accord with the European Union. This is scheduled to take place in the coming six months once Paraguay is handed Mercosur' chair at the group's midyear presidential summit that begins on Thursday in Brasilia.

  • Wednesday, July 15th 2015 - 08:10 UTC

    Mercosur summit in Brasilia with a conflicting agenda; Paraguay takes chair

    President Dilma Rousseff faced with a serious recession is trying to increase the scope of markets for Brazilian exports

    Mercosur will be holding its half year presidential summit in Brasilia next Thursday and Friday, an event which will expose an abundance of trade and political conflicts, discrepancies and recurrent challenges despite all its members commitment to integration. Besides full members, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Venezuela and Brazil, leaders from Chile, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Colombia, Guyana and Surinam have also been announced.

  • Wednesday, July 15th 2015 - 06:25 UTC

    Petrobras board member criticizes oil-exploration and local content policies

    Castello Branco said the local-content rules create a situation that favors the formation of cartels.

    Brazil's oil-exploration and local-content policies harm Petrobras and the country as a whole, a government-appointed member of the state-run company's board said on Tuesday. The comments were made by Roberto Castello Branco, who was named earlier this year by President Dilma Rousseff's administration to be one of the government's seven representatives on Petrobras board.

  • Tuesday, July 14th 2015 - 06:00 UTC

    Brazil's economic team reaching out to credit rating agencies for a vote of confidence

    A downgrade from investment to speculative “junk” status would be a significant blow to Rousseff’s plan to revive investment and growth in Brazil

    Concerns that Brazil may lose its coveted investment grade credit rating are again on the rise among government officials and investors who worry that President Dilma Rousseff’s austerity push won’t fully offset plunging government revenues.

  • Thursday, July 9th 2015 - 06:29 UTC

    Brics summit takes off in Russia with an agenda full of economic and political issues

    Putin met with Brazilian president Rousseff in the sidelines of the summit. Brazil is interested in funding for an ambitious railway infrastructure project

    Russian President Vladimir Putin met on Wednesday with his Brazilian counterpart, Dilma Rousseff at the Siberian city of Ufa, where the Brics group summit is taking place. Previously, Putin had met with president Xi Jinping (China); Jacob Zuma (South Africa) and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the five countries that make up the group.

  • Thursday, July 9th 2015 - 06:18 UTC

    Petrobras 'suspicious' activities could involve as much as 16bn dollars

    Rodrigues told a congressional committee that the “suspicious movement of 51.9 billion Reales in operations linked to Petrobras” had been detected

    Investigators with Brazil’s Finance Ministry say they have identified as much as US$16 billion worth of suspicious activity that may be part of a kickback scandal engulfing the state-owned oil company Petrobras.

  • Wednesday, July 8th 2015 - 07:37 UTC

    Dilma rejects any suggestion of stepping down and blames “a bunch of coup mongers”

    “I'm not going to fall. No, I'm not. It's a political struggle. People fall when they're ready to fall and I'm not. There's no reason for it” Dilma said

    Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff said in an interview published Tuesday in the daily Folha de Sao Paulo that there's no reason she should be ousted, so she has no fear being removed. Rousseff went further and accused certain sectors of the opposition of being “a bunch of coup mongers”.

  • Tuesday, July 7th 2015 - 06:55 UTC

    Brazil's main opposition party ready “to take on whatever the future holds”

    Cardoso emphasized that “whatever the path we have to take is, the PSDB and its allies will have a way”, because “the way under the PT has been lost”.

    Brazil' former president Fernando Henrique Cardoso said on Sunday addressing his party's convention, the main opposition force in the Brazilian congress, that the PSDB was ready 'to clear the country of its problems' and accused leader Lula da Silva and the ruling Workers Party (PT) of bankrupting Brazil.