Tag: Gleisi Hoffmann

• Friday, April 11th 2025 - 18:32 UTC

  Brazil's Communications Minister resigns, successor chosen

  

  Federal Congressman Pedro Lucas Fernandes (União Brasil-MA) has been confirmed as Brazil's new Communications Minister, replacing Juscelino Filho, who resigned after being indicted for alleged misuse of parliamentary amendments. The announcement followed a meeting between President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and the new official. Lucas currently leads the União Brasil Lower House bloc and was nominated by his party for the position. He is expected to be sworn in after April 21, allowing time for administrative arrangements.

• Monday, March 10th 2025 - 14:31 UTC

  Lula makes key cabinet reshuffle

  

  Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva Monday launched a cabinet reshuffle by appointing Gleisi Hoffmann as Secretary of Institutional Relations in lieu of Alexander Padilha, who returned to the podition of Health Minister he held between 2011 and 2014 under former President Dilma Rousseff. Padilha replaced Nísia Trinidade, whom Lula sacked on Feb. 25.

• Monday, April 8th 2024 - 21:38 UTC

  Musk's social platform to disregard Brazilian Court's orders to suspend users posting alleged fake news?

  

  Business mogul Elon Musk, owner of the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, has taken on Brazilian Supreme Federal Court (STF) Justice Alexandre De Moraes for wanting to censor content spread via the internet. “Why are you demanding so much censorship in Brazil?,” Musk asked the magistrate.

• Thursday, February 7th 2019 - 09:19 UTC

  Lula, in a new corruption conviction is sentenced to another 13 years in prison

  

  A Brazilian court on Wednesday handed a near 13-year sentence to Lula da Silva, in a new corruption conviction for the former president already serving a lengthy jail term in a separate case.

• Monday, April 30th 2018 - 08:53 UTC

  Two supporters of Lula da Silva injured with gunshots in Curitiba

  

  A man was seriously wounded early on Saturday when a gunman opened fire on a vigil in the southern Brazilian city of Curitiba, where former president Lula da Silva is serving time for corruption, his party said.

• Wednesday, April 25th 2018 - 08:15 UTC

  Brazil's Lula gives his party the green light to find a new presidential candidate

  

  Brazil's ex-president Lula, who is imprisoned for corruption, on Tuesday gave his Workers' Party (PT) the green light to find a new candidate for the October presidential election in which he remains the frontrunner. “I want you to feel totally free to take whatever decision you need because 2018 is an important year for the PT, for the left and for democracy,” wrote Lula da Silva in a letter to the party leadership.

• Friday, January 19th 2018 - 09:01 UTC

  Lula is no radical or a threat to stability: everyone won when he was president

  

  The leader of Brazil's Workers' Party, PT, argued in an interview that former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is anything but radical and does not pose a threat to Brazilian financial stability. Brazilian senator Gleisi Hoffman told Bloomberg News that Lula is working on a second “letter to Brazilian people” (as he did in 2002) to reassure the markets about his commitment to fiscal responsibility.

• Friday, November 3rd 2017 - 07:08 UTC

  Brazilian electorate divided on Lula: half want him as president and the other half in jail

  

  Half of Brazilians want former President Lula da Silva to win next year's election and return to the office he occupied between 2003 and 2010. The other half wants him in prison for a corruption conviction.

• Friday, July 14th 2017 - 08:00 UTC

  Lula defies conviction and formally launches his presidential candidacy

  

  The former Brazilian president Lula da Silva responded defiantly to his conviction on corruption charges by formally launching his candidacy for next year’s presidential election.

• Thursday, August 27th 2015 - 04:41 UTC

  Dilma has an extra 12 days to show 'non-doctored' government accounts

  

  Brazil's highest accounting court gave another 15 days for President Dilma Rousseff to respond to accusations she doctored the government accounts last year to hide the deterioration of the country's finances.