Tag: Lula da Silva

• Wednesday, June 24th 2015 - 08:38 UTC

  Petrobras scandal ramifications getting closer to Lula da Silva

  

  One of Brazil's leading weekly magazines, Epoca, has revealed that former president Lula da Silva could be investigated over corruption allegations following on the imprisonment of the Odebrecht Group CEO, (Marcelo Odebrecht) which is one of the country's largest private corporations and employers, and for which Lula did much lobbying and sponsoring for public works projects in Dominican Republic, Cuba, Venezuela and Ghana.

• Wednesday, June 24th 2015 - 08:29 UTC

  Workers Party is old and out of touch, “an internal revolution is needed”, blasts Lula da Silva

  

  Former President Lula da Silva again blasted Brazil's governing Workers Party, an organization he founded, as old and out of touch. “We have to define whether we want to save our skins and our jobs or if we want to save our project,” Lula da Silva said in Sao Paulo during a seminar on democracy, which he attended along with former Spanish Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez.

• Saturday, June 13th 2015 - 07:59 UTC

  Rousseff and Lula da Silva try to convince the party to support austerity measures

  

  Brazil's embattled president Dilma Rousseff with the help of her political mentor. Lula da Silva managed on Thursday night to plea support from the ruling Workers Party, WP, delegates for drastic spending cuts designed to restore confidence in Latin America's largest but battered economy.

• Monday, June 8th 2015 - 07:49 UTC

  Francis receives Cristina Fernandez, but is criticized for mingling in Argentine politics

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernandez was received on Sunday in the Vatican by Pope Francis for an encounter that lasted almost two hours, in the fifth meeting between the pontiff and head of state since the ex-Buenos Aires archbishop was elected to the Holy See. The meeting however was not without criticism from Buenos Aires.

• Friday, June 5th 2015 - 03:28 UTC

  FAO conference to recognize efforts in lowering hunger and elect Director General

  

  Some 130 ministers, 12 heads of state or government, including presidents from Argentina and Chile, Cristina Fernandez and Michelle Bachelet, plus numerous other high-level government representatives will be converging on Rome this week for the 39th session of FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization) governing Conference (6-13 June).

• Saturday, May 9th 2015 - 09:34 UTC

  Mujica's book rekindles Brazilian scandal involving Lula da Silva

  

  Uruguay's president Jose Mujica has now denied alleged statements collected in a book about his life written by two journalists, that he personally presented last Sunday in Buenos Aires and in which there is a mention to former president Lula da Silva and the 'mensalao', one of Brazil's largest corruption scandals involving monthly payments to have bills passed by Congress.

• Monday, April 27th 2015 - 22:40 UTC

  Brazil's ruling party of Lula and Dilma 'stole too much' and its time 'is over'

  

  A close ally of Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff and currently part of her government's coalition said “too much stealing” by Lula da Silva's ruling Workers Party (PT) is responsible for the country's political crisis and public opinion disenchantment with politics.

• Thursday, March 5th 2015 - 07:11 UTC

  Rousseff faces a revolt in Congress from her ruling coalition main ally

  

  Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, (and her political mentor Lula da Silva), raced on Wednesday to defuse a rebellion by legislators upset about her budget austerity plans and her handling of a corruption scandal at state-run oil company Petrobras, which now threatens political stability.

• Friday, December 12th 2014 - 06:03 UTC

  Brazilian executives from leading companies formally charged for the Petrobras corruption scandal

  

  Brazilian prosecutors formally charged executives from six of the country's largest engineering firms with forming a cartel to funnel kickbacks from state-run oil firm Petrobras to the ruling political party and its allies.

• Tuesday, November 4th 2014 - 04:53 UTC

  Bankers' names for Finance minister in Rousseff's next government

  

  Brazilian banker Luiz Carlos Trabuco Cappi, president of Bradesco, turned down an invitation from president Dilma Rousseff to occupy the Finance ministry as of next January first. According to the Sao Paulo financial publication Valor, there was no insistence on the issue from political sources.