Tag: Lula da Silva

• Sunday, April 8th 2018 - 06:43 UTC

  Lula in prison in Curitiba. Fiery-emotional speech to supporters before turning in

  

  Brazil's leftist icon Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva turned himself in Saturday to start a 12-year sentence for corruption after a chaotic attempt by supporters to stop him from surrendering. Surrounded by bodyguards, Lula had to push through a seething throng of supporters to get into a police vehicle outside the metalworkers' union building in Sao Bernardo do Campo, where he had been holed up for two days and nights.

• Saturday, April 7th 2018 - 08:19 UTC

  Lula negotiating his surrender following a Saturday mass for his deceased wife

  

  Ex-president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Brazil's polarizing election frontrunner and leftist icon, was negotiating his surrender after dramatically skipping a first deadline Friday to start his 12-year prison sentence for corruption.

• Friday, April 6th 2018 - 16:23 UTC

  Lula resists arrest deadline waiting for last minute habeas corpus filed at an appeals court

  

  Former Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva told Folha de Sao Paulo early Friday that he has decided not to turn himself at the Federal Police in Curitiba where he must serve a 12-year prison sentence for corruption, as ordered by judge Sergio Moro.

• 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.

• Friday, April 6th 2018 - 07:28 UTC

  Lula has until Friday afternoon to start a prison sentence for corruption

  

  Former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, front runner in Brazil’s October presidential elections, was given 24 hours on Thursday to surrender to police and start a 12-year prison sentence for corruption. The timing of the order from Judge Sergio Moro, head of Brazil’s huge “Car Wash” anti-graft probe, took Lula’s lawyers by complete surprise. They had been expecting to use legal maneuvers to delay the start of prison at least until next week.

• Thursday, April 5th 2018 - 09:16 UTC

  Supreme Court rejects Lula's petition: must start prison term

  

  The Supreme Federal Court of Brazil (STF) decided to reject the judicial appeal filed by former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to appeal while in freedom to a sentence for corruption that remains pending, so the former president should enter the prison and begin compliance of the sentence.

• Wednesday, April 4th 2018 - 09:24 UTC

  Brazil's conundrum: Army chief twits “good citizens repudiate impunity and respect the Constitution”

  

  The commander of Brazil's army added tension on the eve of a Supreme Court decision on whether former President Lula da Silva should be allowed to exhaust his appeals process before being sent to jail for a corruption conviction.

• Wednesday, April 4th 2018 - 08:21 UTC

  Supreme Tribunal vote on Lula's political future will divide Brazil: calls for calm to avoid social disorder

  

  Brazil's top court could rule as soon as this Wednesday whether former President Lula da Silva can stay out of prison while appealing a corruption conviction, a decision that could radically alter October's presidential election in Latin America's largest nation.

• Tuesday, April 3rd 2018 - 09:20 UTC

  Cunha, the driving force of Rousseff's impeachment sentenced to 15 years

  

  Brazilian court has sentenced the former speaker of the country’s lower house, Eduardo Cunha to more than 15 years in prison for corruption. The ex Worker’s Party member is the highest profile political conviction yet in the ‘operation car wash’ scandal.

• Monday, April 2nd 2018 - 08:57 UTC

  Rousseff and Lula furious with Netflix series “The Mechanism” on corruption

  

  Former Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has accused Netflix of political bias and character assassination in its series based on the massive Car Wash corruption investigation that rocked Brazil’s political establishment. Since its debut last week, the series called “The Mechanism” has enthralled Brazilians with its dramatization of the political scandal that contributed to Rousseff’s downfall and impeachment in 2016.