Tag: Lula da Silva

• 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.

• Monday, April 2nd 2018 - 06:01 UTC

  Brazil Finance minister Meirelles expected to announce this week his presidential bid

  

  Brazil's Finance Minister, Henrique Meirelles, will step down from the government this week and join the ranks of the ruling Brazilian Democratic Movement Party, senior government officials said. The news of Meirelles' move was broken by the government's chief of staff, Eliseu Padilha.

• Sunday, April 1st 2018 - 19:12 UTC

  Trump doesn't care about Latin America, Lula tells Correa

  

  Former Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva, better or simply known as Lula, said Donald Trump “doesn't care about Latin America in the least and added that ”Bush and Condoleezza Rice pursued a much more democratic policy towards Brazil than Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.” In his view, Obama could give magnificent speeches, but never actually delivered.

• Thursday, March 22nd 2018 - 14:26 UTC

  Lula could have to begin serving his 12-year sentence next week

  

  Brazilian federal appeals court will make a final ruling next week on a corruption conviction of former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, a decision that could see the popular politician ordered to prison shortly afterward, the court’s press office said on Wednesday.