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Montevideo, April 18th 2025 - 07:20 UTC

Tag: Dilma Rousseff

  • Sunday, April 2nd 2017 - 08:34 UTC

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

    Ex President Rousseff and Temer are accused of taking undeclared campaign funds from corrupt donors.

    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

    Odebrecht said he never received a “specific” request for money from Temer and pointed former ministers Guido Mantega and Antonio Palocci as his contacts

    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.

  • Friday, March 31st 2017 - 04:39 UTC

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

    The former Lower House speaker’s defense team said they would appeal the decision but Cunha will remain imprisoned pending appeal.

    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”

    “I felt something strange there. I wasn’t able to sleep from the first night. The energy wasn’t good,” Temer admitted

    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

    “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.

    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

    “He was a good man and a source of pride for all Brazilians,” Temer said, who declared three days of national mourning in Brazil for the death of the Justice

    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 Fernandeez and some of her die-hard acolytes went to Sao Paulo to meet with Lula and Dilma now that the star of populism is waning in the entire region

    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

    Temer vowed to send a proposal to Congress next month to reform the pension system once lawmakers pass a spending cap.

    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

    “The president did not get involved with the details, but he was absolutely aware of the interests that encircled the management at Petrobras,” Amaral said in testimony

    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

    Rousseff's defense team verified the accounts report presented by PT and confirmed in July that R$ 1 million had been transferred for the campaign.

    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).