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Montevideo, May 17th 2025 - 11:36 UTC

Tag: Lindbergh Farias

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

    Brazil: Haddad says Selic adjustment stemmed from Campos Neto era

    The measure was heavily criticized by Congressman Farias

    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.

  • 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

    Lula has until mid-August to register his candidacy and only after that will the Superior Electoral Tribunal rule on whether his candidacy is valid.

    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

    Farias told Folha de Sao Paulo that while he may have acted improperly, his actions weren’t illegal. The senator admitted taking a US$650,000 donation

    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.”