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Montevideo, July 1st 2025 - 13:17 UTC

Tag: Lula da Silva

  • Tuesday, April 5th 2016 - 06:26 UTC

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

    “Impeaching Rousseff 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 Congress

    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.

  • Saturday, March 19th 2016 - 06:40 UTC

    Lula takes to the streets claiming there's a coup, but he is no match to the over three million of Sunday

    Waving the red flags of the ruling PT thousands of demonstrators took to the streets in Sao Paulo, greeting Lula with thunderous cheers

    Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff's supporters took to the streets on Friday to fight back at attempts to oust her, as a flurry of court battles raged over her controversial cabinet appointment of predecessor Lula da Silva. Waving the red flags of the ruling Workers' Party, (PT) tens of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets in the country's largest city, Sao Paulo, greeting Lula with thunderous cheers when he was hoisted onto a parked truck to address the crowd.

  • Friday, March 18th 2016 - 03:12 UTC

    Brazilian markets surge on prospects Rousseff will be removed

    The Bovespa index of leading shares closed at 50,913 points after lawmakers re launched impeachment proceedings against Rousseff

    Brazilian share prices surged on Thursday to close 6.6% higher, a seven-year record, after fresh setbacks to populist President Dilma Rousseff raised the prospect of her being driven from power.

  • Thursday, March 17th 2016 - 06:38 UTC

    “When a rich man steals they name him minister”, Lula da Silva quote in 1998

    “When a poor man steals, he ends in jail; when a rich man steals he is named minister”, the phrase belongs to Lula da Silva, when he was leading the opposition.

    “When a poor man steals, he ends in jail; when a rich man steals he is named minister”, the phrase belongs to Lula da Silva back in 1998 when he was leading the opposition, and it is now being repeated in social networks. In effect, on Wednesday Lula was named chief of staff by president Dilma Rousseff, who also phoned him to tell him she would be sending him the official decree on his nomination, so that he make use of it “if necessary”.

  • Thursday, March 17th 2016 - 06:13 UTC

    Protests erupt in Brazil as Rousseff confirms Lula da Silva as chief of staff

    Lula has immunity from all but the Supreme Court after his nomination as Rousseff's chief of staff was published in a special edition of the Official Gazette.

    Protests erupted in Brazilian cities on Wednesday after President Dilma Rousseff named her predecessor Lula da Silva chief of staff and a taped telephone conversation fed opposition claims the appointment was meant to shield Lula from prosecution.

  • 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

    ”Rumors have been around for the last two weeks, but gained strength when Lula traveled to Brasilia to meet with (president Dilma) Rousseff” according to O Globo.

    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.

  • Thursday, March 10th 2016 - 06:47 UTC

    Prosecutors ask for Lula da Silva to be placed under formal investigation

    Brazilian media reported that prosecutors want Lula probed for alleged money laundering and hiding assets in connection with a posh seaside home.

    Prosecutors in Brazil asked Wednesday that powerful ex-president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who was questioned this week in a huge corruption probe, be placed under formal investigation. The press service of the Sao Paulo state prosecutors' office said precise details of the request were not yet known and that a news conference would be held Thursday.

  • Wednesday, March 9th 2016 - 05:14 UTC

    Construction tycoon sentenced to 19 years in prison for Petrobras corruption scandal

    Odebrecht was CEO until December of the global construction company, which is alleged to have been one of the main players in the Petrobras bribes' scheme

    Brazilian construction tycoon Marcelo Odebrecht, 47, was sentenced Tuesday to 19 years in prison for corruption and money laundering in the giant Petrobras embezzlement scandal shaking Latin America's biggest country Petrobras in what prosecution has identified as Operation Car Wash.

  • Tuesday, March 8th 2016 - 14:29 UTC

    Senior judges concerned about Lula's arrest but admit “evidence is very serious”

    Supreme Court Justice Marco Aurélio Mello told CBN Radio “nothing justified the use of force” when police picked up Lula unannounced from his apartment.

    Senior judges in Brazil voiced concern over the detention of former President Lula da Silva, even as they threw their support behind the sweeping corruption investigation that threatens to topple his embattled successor. Lula’s three hours of questioning in police custody on Friday was the highest profile development in the two-year probe focused on state oil firm Petrobras.

  • Tuesday, March 8th 2016 - 07:00 UTC

    With Lula a weakened myth, Rousseff is fighting for her political life on several fronts

    On Friday, “an atomic bomb” was thrown at Rousseff's Workers' Party with the brief detention of her mentor and charismatic predecessor, Lula da Silva.

    Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff is fighting for her political life in Congress, the courts and streets this week, but her path to survival has got ever narrower, analysts said on Monday. Rousseff faces impeachment proceedings over alleged fiscal mismanagement, while the Supreme Electoral Court is considering possible campaign funding irregularities that could end up annulling her 2014 reelection.