Tag: Dilma Rousseff

• Friday, March 31st 2017 - 04:39 UTC

  Rousseff's “hangman” sentenced to 15 years in prison for corruption

  

  A federal court sentenced Brazil’s former speaker of the Lower House, Eduardo Cunha, to more than 15 years in prison on Thursday for corruption, making him the highest-profile political conviction yet in the “Operation Car Wash” scandal. The former politician’s defense team said they would appeal the decision but Cunha will remain imprisoned pending appeal.

• Wednesday, March 15th 2017 - 06:52 UTC

  Temer moved out of the presidential palace because of “bad energy and ghosts”

  

  Brazilian president Michel Temer confessed in an interview with the leading news magazine Veja that he and his family moved out of the nation’s Alvorada Palace, the official presidential residence, over bad energy and “ghosts” that kept him and First Lady Marcela Temer from sleeping well at night.

• Friday, February 3rd 2017 - 09:36 UTC

  Brazil's ex first lady dies; Lula da Silva allows donations of her organs

  

  The wife of Brazil's embattled former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva died on Thursday, a week after she was hospitalized with a brain hemorrhage, doctors in Sao Paulo said.“An absence of blood flow in the brain was identified,” doctors at the Sirio-Libanes hospital said, declaring Marisa Leticia Lula da Silva brain-dead.

• Friday, January 20th 2017 - 12:42 UTC

  Brazil in shock: Justice investigating country's major corruption dies in air crash

  

  Brazil's President Michel Temer on Thursday evening made an official statement to mourn the death of Supreme Court judge Teori Zavascki, who was killed earlier in the day in a plane crash. Temer declared three days of national mourning in Brazil for the death of the Justice, who was in charge of the court's investigation into a wide-ranging corruption scandal.

• Saturday, December 10th 2016 - 12:18 UTC

  Cristina meets Lula and Dilma in Brazil

  

  Former Argentine President Cristina Fernandez Kirchner met with former Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva for an hour and a half at the Lula Institute in the São Paulo district of Ipiranga. Both political leaders discussed the situation of their countries and the region, according to a statement from the LI.

• Tuesday, November 22nd 2016 - 13:38 UTC

  Fiscal vulnerability of Brazilian economy exposed at a business conference

  

  Brazilian President Michel Temer warned on Monday that the national debt could swell to the size of the country's gross domestic product within eight years should public spending not be brought under control and fiscal reforms not enacted.

• Tuesday, November 22nd 2016 - 09:04 UTC

  “Surreal” to think Lula was not aware of the massive corruption schemes

  

  Former Senator Delcídio do Amaral described as “surreal” the notion that former President Lula da Silva was not aware of a giant corruption scheme active during his tenure, in testimony on Monday marking the start of the trial against the man that ran Brazil from 2003 to 2010.

• Friday, November 11th 2016 - 19:37 UTC

  Rousseff's defense claims some campaign funds were provided by Temer's party

  

  Brazilian ex-President Dilma Rousseff's (PT) defense team attached to the case against her slate at the Superior Electoral Court, TSE, documents revealing that R$ 1 million (US$ 320.000) which construction company Andrade Guitierrez donated to her re-election campaing in 2014 went through the account of who was then Vice Presidential candidate Michel Temer (PMDB).

• Friday, November 11th 2016 - 08:48 UTC

  Brazilian president accused of having received US$ 300.000 for political campaign funding

  

  Brazilian President Michel Temer has been accused of taking a large bribe by a former political ally. Lawyers for former President Dilma Rousseff, who was removed from office in May, filed court documents which they say prove the claim.

• Tuesday, November 8th 2016 - 07:49 UTC

  A Trump victory could mean a brake for the Argentina/US dynamic relation, says Malcorra

  

  Under the administration of president Mauricio Macri, the relation between Argentina and the US has “entered a new dynamic phase” and somehow those close links could be affected if the Republican candidate wins on Tuesday, said foreign minister Susana Malcorra.