Tag: Lindbergh Farias

• Thursday, March 20th 2025 - 11:26 UTC

  Brazil: Haddad says Selic adjustment stemmed from Campos Neto era

  

  After Brazil Central Bank's (BCB) Monetary Policy Committee (Copom) raised Wednesday the benchmark Selic interest rate from 13.25% to 14.25% annually, Finance Minister Fernando Haddad warned that such a move had been planned since December under former BCB President Roberto Campos Neto, who had been appointed during the Jair Bolsonaro years.

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• Friday, April 6th 2018 - 07:47 UTC

  Lula expected to continue campaigning from jail as the Workers Party readies a Plan B and option candidate

  

  Even when Brazilian ex president Lula da Silva was described as facing Judge Sergio Moro's Friday jailing decision calmly, the big question now is what follows for the presidential candidate and the Workers Party chances ahead of the coming October presidential election.

• Tuesday, March 10th 2015 - 07:05 UTC

  Brazilian lawmakers accused of Petrobras graft fight back

  

  Brazil’s congressional heads denied involvement in the country’s largest graft scandal after being named among dozens of politicians for investigation. Renan Calheiros and Eduardo Cunha, the heads of the Senate and Lower House respectively, and Rio de Janeiro Senator Lindbergh Farias all rejected allegations of graft in the Petrobras kickback scheme dubbed “Carwash.”