Tag: Dilma Rousseff

• Monday, June 5th 2017 - 08:29 UTC

  Decisive week for Temer's presidency; Electoral Court could have him ousted

  

  Brazil's Michel Temer is already fighting a devastating corruption scandal, but this week he faces a more immediate threat: a court ruling on whether he should even be president. The case in the Supreme Electoral Tribunal or TSE was long considered a slow-burning sideshow to the developments in Brazil's corruption revelations, which have now reached the top.

• Sunday, May 21st 2017 - 12:08 UTC

  Temer on the cliff fearful of more tapes. Lula and Rousseff accused of receiving US$ 150 million for campaigns

  

  President Michel Temer faced new pressure to resign Friday, after Brazil’s supreme court said prosecutors are investigating him for obstruction of justice and corruption, and a government witness claimed his company paid US$1.5 million to Temer in bribes. A day after the release of surreptitious audio recordings in which Temer seemed to condone a criminal cover up in the “Car Wash” investigation, the court released testimony accusing him of soliciting illegal payments from meatpacking firm JBS.

• Tuesday, May 16th 2017 - 10:04 UTC

  Brazil states RAF Hercules flights from or to Falklands are “humanitarian motivated”

  

  The Brazilian government discards any “irregularities” in allowing British military aircraft, flying to or from the Falkland Islands, landing in its airports since the authorizations are humanitarian motivated, revealed a source from the Brazilian government to the Argentine news agency, Telam.

• Sunday, April 30th 2017 - 09:02 UTC

  Unasur to be purged of its “ideological bias”, anticipates Paraguay

  

  Paraguay has stated it is time to put an end to the “ideological bias” of the Union of South American Nations, Unasur, and recover its integration profile which was the main purpose of its creation. A foreign ministers summit of the region will address and advance the issue.

• Monday, April 17th 2017 - 14:18 UTC

  Odebrecht's state of the art Division of Structured Operations, better known as “bribe department”

  

  The Brazilian engineering group Odebrecht kept a secret communications system to discuss and arrange the payments of bribes. A detailed spreadsheet mapped out who got what, all veiled under a system of codenames, and overseeing it all, there was an entire department at Odebrecht whose only purpose was to ensure the graft ran smoothly.

• Wednesday, April 12th 2017 - 08:41 UTC

  Corruption quake in Brazil: Justice to investigate, 9 ministers, 24 senators, 39 deputies and 3 governors

  

  An institutional and political earthquake is shaking Brazil: the Supreme Court has opened corruption investigations into nine ministers, three governors, 24 senators, 39 members of the Lower House and other elected officials totaling at least 108 politicians, according to a report published on Tuesday by O Estado de Sao Paulo.

• Wednesday, April 5th 2017 - 21:06 UTC

  Over 55% openly disapprove of president Temer's performance

  

  The approval rating for the government of Brazil's President Michel Temer has fallen to just 10%, with 55% actively disapproving of its management of the country, a new poll by the Ibope polling company showed on Friday.

• Tuesday, April 4th 2017 - 20:09 UTC

  Brazil's Temer strategy to fend off electoral trial on campaign funding is working

  

  Brazil's top electoral court on Tuesday delayed proceedings in a landmark trial about illegal campaign funding that could lead to the removal of President Michel Temer less than a year after he took over from impeached leftist Dilma Rousseff, and 18 months before the 2018 presidential election.

• Sunday, April 2nd 2017 - 08:34 UTC

  Electoral Court decides this week on continuity of Temer's presidency

  

  Brazilian President Michel Temer is facing a terrible week, with a court theoretically annulling his presidency and forcing him to step down from office. Temer is widely expected to find a way to escape this. But the mere fact that a court is considering such a thing shows the depths of uncertainty in Latin America’s biggest country as it tries to survive in a huge corruption scandal, a two-year recession and record unemployment.

• Friday, March 31st 2017 - 05:05 UTC

  Odebrecht insists Rousseff was aware of slush funds provided for the presidential campaign

  

  One of Brazil's leading newspapers, Folha de Sao Paulo, reported that the Odebrecht family group confessed to have provided the 2014 presidential ticket campaign, Dilma Rousseff-Michel Temer with millions of dollars in slush funds for the campaign.