Tag: Lula da Silva

• 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.

• Tuesday, March 20th 2018 - 08:16 UTC

  Lula begins tour of south Brazil and meets Mujica, but it was a bad day for both leaders

  

  Protesters interrupted the start on Monday of an election campaign tour by former Brazilian president Lula da Silva, who leads opinion polls but faces a lengthy jail sentence for corruption. Police had to intervene to separate some 150 protesting farmers and Lula's supporters in Bage, where the populist leader was starting a bus tour of southern Brazil ahead of October 7 elections.

• Monday, March 19th 2018 - 08:30 UTC

  Lula da Silva “ready” to go to jail and become Brazil's first political prisoner in 21st century

  

  Former Brazilian President Lula da Silva launched a book Friday in which he says he is “ready” to go to jail and serve a 12-year and one-month sentence on a corruption charge conviction.

• Wednesday, March 7th 2018 - 06:36 UTC

  Lula closer to prison, but remains undisputed front-runner in the presidential election

  

  Former Brazilian President Lula da Silva is a step closer to prison. A panel of judges on Brazil’s Superior Court of Justice on Tuesday rejected Lula da Silva’s request for an injunction that would prevent him from being imprisoned as he appeals a corruption conviction.

• Wednesday, February 28th 2018 - 10:00 UTC

  Brazilian presidential hopeful would support privatization of Petrobras

  

  The governor of Sao Paulo and likely centrist presidential candidate Geraldo Alckmin said that he would privatize Brazil's state-run oil company Petrobras if he wins the elections in October.