Tag: Eliseu Padilha

• Friday, July 6th 2018 - 10:37 UTC

  Brazil's labor minister suspended by the Supreme Court on fraud investigation

  

  Brazil's labor minister was suspended Thursday by a Supreme Court justice as part of an investigation into fraud. Helton Yomura cannot enter the Labor Ministry's offices or have contact with its staff, said Joana Dantas, a ministry press officer.

• Friday, May 25th 2018 - 08:50 UTC

  Brazil truckers strike: Government says a 15-day truce had been reached

  

  Brazil's government said late Thursday that a deal had been reached with truckers to suspend a four-day-old strike that caused fuel shortages, cut into food deliveries, backed up exports and threatened airline flights.

• Friday, May 18th 2018 - 08:48 UTC

  Brazilian government anticipates lower economic growth for 2018

  

  The Brazilian government on Thursday admitted for the first time this year that economic growth in 2018 will be below the original target of 3% projected in January. The downgrade followed the release of economic indicators showing a slower than expected recovery.

• Saturday, March 3rd 2018 - 10:39 UTC

  Prosecution wants Temer included in Odebrecht payments investigation

  

  Prosecutor general, Raquel Dodge, requested Brazilian Supreme Court justice, Edson Fachin, to include president Michel Temer in the list of those under investigation in an inquiry launched last year to determine Odebrecht's alleged payments to the Brazilian Democratic Movement (MDB) party in 2014.

• Saturday, October 28th 2017 - 13:32 UTC

  Temer survives biology and court charges, but his reforms' agenda is significantly weakened

  

  President Michel Temer’s administration turned its attention Thursday to pressing its reform agenda, but it is unclear if it has the support to govern after convincing a small majority in Brazil's Congress not to suspend the leader and make him stand trial on corruption charges.

• 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.

• Friday, June 3rd 2016 - 09:13 UTC

  Temer's administration confident of congressional support for its economic plans

  

  President Michel Temer's will press ahead with ambitious plans to balance the budget, reform pensions and draw private money into the energy sector despite the loss of two ministers to a corruption scandal, his chief of staff said on Thursday.

• Saturday, May 14th 2016 - 09:09 UTC

  Temer's team confident it has the political support to implement tough measures

  

  Brazil's interim government said on Friday it has the political support for tough measures needed to return the economy to growth and can secure a permanent mandate once populist President Dilma Rousseff's impeachment trial is over. Presidential Chief of Staff Eliseu Padilha said the incoming government understood it was only provisional for now and had ordered portraits of Rousseff to be left hanging in federal buildings.