Tag: Dilma Rousseff

• Tuesday, November 20th 2018 - 07:38 UTC

  CFK: Macri merely a manager of policies imposed from abroad

  

  Former Argentine President Cristina Fernández Kirchner (CFK) Monday criticized the administration of her successor Mauricio Macri in a speech that lasted over an hour at the anti-G20 summit in Buenos Aires, saying - among other things - that by taking a loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) the current president merely manages what is dictated to him.

• Thursday, November 15th 2018 - 16:50 UTC

  Money wirings from British NGO under investigation as G-20 Summit nears

  

  Two money transfers from British NGO “Global Justice Now” to the Buenos Aires branch of the Association for a Fee for Speculative International Financial Transactions to Help Citizens (ATTAC) worth 32,000 sterling pounds combined, have drawn the attention of Argentine anti money laundering authorities who have launched an ex officio investigation.

• Wednesday, November 14th 2018 - 08:17 UTC

  Main shareholders of Brazil's largest meat processor charged with corruption have been released

  

  Brazil’s top appeals court has ordered the release of one of meat processor JBS’ controlling shareholders, Joesley Batista, and Ricardo Saud, a lawyer for J&F Investimentos, which controls JBS. Both were arrested on Friday in an investigation into illegal campaign contributions and alleged bribery of government officials.

• Tuesday, November 13th 2018 - 10:42 UTC

  Bolsonaro's economic team incorporates another Chicago orthodox liberal

  

  Joaquim Levy, managing director and World Bank chief financial officer, has been tapped to be the next president of Brazil’s national economic and social development bank BNDES, news advanced to a column in daily O Estado de S. Paulo published on Sunday.

• Monday, November 12th 2018 - 07:30 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez, Jose Mujica and Dilma Rousseff in a Critical Thinking forum

  

  Several Latin American presidents and political activists are scheduled to hold the First Forum of Critical Thinking next week in Buenos Aires, just a few days before the G20 summit which this year in being hosted by Argentina and will convene the world's leaders.

• Friday, October 12th 2018 - 09:05 UTC

  Bolsonaro pledges support for a non ideologized Mercosur; praises Macri for ousting Dilma Kirchner

  

  Brazil’s far-right presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro has promised to continue his country's participation in the Mercosur trading bloc but says he will move it away from “ideology”.“The Mercosur has value but it was disfigured by the PT (Brazil's Workers' Party)”, Bolsonaro said at a press conference in Rio de Janeiro on Thursday. “I won’t abandon the Mercosur but it won’t continue to be guided by ideology”, he added.

• Thursday, October 4th 2018 - 08:51 UTC

  Ex minister involves Lula directly in corruption practices to ensure funding for Rousseff's campaign

  

  A judge released fresh testimony this week alleging corrupt practices involving members of Brazil’s leftist Workers Party (PT), whose candidate Fernando Haddad faces far-right lawmaker Jair Bolsonaro in Sunday's presidential election.

• Wednesday, September 26th 2018 - 08:58 UTC

  Evangelical “block” in Brazilian congress expected to increase

  

  Evangelical voters are expected to play a decisive role in Brazil’s Oct. 7 presidential election as new rules ban corporations from making direct contributions in the wake of a graft scandal. With their numbers and clout growing, and the “evangelical bloc” in Congress accounting for 15% of federal lawmakers, evangelical supporters have become the focus of leading candidates.

• Tuesday, September 4th 2018 - 08:52 UTC

  Bye, Bye Lula

  

  On Sunday, Brazil’s top electoral court ruled that “Lula”, former president Luiz Inácio da Silva, cannot run in the presidential election this October. He served two terms as president (2003-2011), he dutifully waited out the following two terms, and his Workers’ Party (PT) has nominated him for the presidency again.

• Monday, September 3rd 2018 - 09:24 UTC

  Lula's party challenges Electoral Court ruling and keeps him as candidate

  

  Brazil's Workers Party, PT, said on Saturday that it's sticking with former president Lula da Silva as its presidential candidate even though the electoral court has thrown him off the ballot for an election just five weeks away.