Tag: Jose Eduardo Cardozo

• Wednesday, August 31st 2016 - 03:43 UTC

  Rousseff's fate has been decided: Senate will make it formal on Wednesday

  

  The Brazilian Senate heard for the last time on Tuesday the arguments of the defense and prosecution in the impeachment trial of President Dilma Rousseff, and now prepares to issue its decision on the case.

• Saturday, April 16th 2016 - 09:38 UTC

  Rousseff forced to cancel speech to the nation; defense with state resources argued the opposition

  

  Embattled Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff canceled a scheduled address to the nation on Friday night, ahead of a looming impeachment vote in the lower house of Congress. The lower house will vote Sunday on whether Rousseff should be impeached by the Senate for allegedly breaking financial laws.

• Friday, April 15th 2016 - 09:29 UTC

  Roussef asks the Supreme Court for an injunction to suspend impeachment vote

  

  Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff resorted to the Supreme Court on Thursday in a last ditch attempt to avert a critical impeachment vote in Congress that could lead to her removal from office. Rousseff's attorney general, Jose Eduardo Cardozo, asked the top court for an injunction to suspend Sunday's Lower House vote until the full court can rule on what he called procedural flaws in the impeachment process.

• Tuesday, April 5th 2016 - 06:26 UTC

  Brazil's defense makes its case before the congressional impeachment committee

  

  Attorney General Jose Eduardo Cardozo told the congressional impeachment committee Monday that Rousseff had done nothing wrong and to remove her would be tantamount to a putsch.“As such, impeaching her would be a coup, a violation of the constitution, an affront to the rule of law, without any need to resort to bayonets,” Cardozo told the 65-member committee.

• Wednesday, March 16th 2016 - 06:36 UTC

  Lula da Silva on the run ready o accept position in cabinet; markets and Real collapse on the news

  

  Brazil's ex-president Lula da Silva will accept a position in his successor's cabinet, according to a leading national newspaper, in order to protect himself from prosecution in a corruption case involving the state-run oil company, Petrobras. Rio-based O Globo newspaper reported on Tuesday that Lula had told several close advisers that he would rejoin the cabinet, citing no sources. Brazilian markets and currency collapsed on the news.

• Friday, May 29th 2015 - 08:45 UTC

  Led by former star Romario, Brazilian Senate opens formal inquiry into country's football

  

  Brazilian police began investigating allegations of corruption in its soccer industry on Thursday, prompted by the arrests of top officials at world soccer body FIFA in a U.S. bribery probe. The country's Senate, led by former national soccer star Romario, who is now a prominent legislator, moved to open a formal inquiry into alleged bribes paid to obtain contracts with the Brazilian Soccer Federation (CBF).

• Friday, February 27th 2015 - 08:14 UTC

  Striking Brazilian truckers will be fined for roadblocks, warns government

  

  The Brazilian government will start fining truckers as a strike in its ninth day threatens Latin America’s largest economy with food and fuel shortages. According to a report from Folha de Sao Paulo, the police will fine drivers who block highways as much as 10,000 Reais (3,470 dollars) per hour, Justice Minister Jose Eduardo Cardozo told reporters in Brasilia.

• Wednesday, May 14th 2014 - 00:09 UTC

  Rio bus drivers on a 48-hour strike leave tens of thousands stranded

  

  Rio de Janeiro bus drivers on Tuesday began a 48-hour strike that left tens of thousands of people without transportation and caused huge problems in Brazil's second-largest city. Participation in the strike was greater than in the 24-hour effort staged last Thursday when on the streets of Rio scarcely a single bus was to be seen.

• Monday, April 21st 2014 - 07:38 UTC

  Killings and riots in Rio do Janeiro; Army patrolled Bahía can't control crime

  

  Hooded youngsters blocked one of Rio do Janeiro's main highways connecting with neighboring Niteroi and set on fire several buses and vehicles to protest the killing of two youths during weekend police operations in the shanty town (favela) of Caramujo. To the north in Salvador-Bahía, Brazilian army patrolling is unable to control crime.

• Wednesday, November 6th 2013 - 03:26 UTC

  Brazil marks distance from US spying: 'we did not violate anyone's privacy rights'

  

  Brazil's Minster of Justice Jose Eduardo Cardozo said on Tuesday that the spying performed by his country's intelligence agency did not violate anyone's privacy rights - unlike the spying committed by the United States.