Tag: Lula da Silva

• Friday, August 7th 2015 - 08:17 UTC

  Countdown for Dilma: two thirds of Brazilians support impeachment; 16 August 'D' day

  

  Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff's approval ratings have struck rock bottom with nearly seven out of ten Brazilians in favor of having Congress begin impeachment proceedings against the beleaguered leader of Latin America's largest economy, according to the latest opinion poll release. A nationwide rally calling her for resignation is planned for August 16.

• Thursday, August 6th 2015 - 08:27 UTC

  Brazil's top prosecutor backed by peers for another term, but he needs Senate confirmation

  

  Brazil's top prosecutor, who has put dozens of politicians under investigation for allegedly taking bribes in the Petrobras corruption scandal, has won the backing of his peers to stay on the job for two more years.

• Tuesday, August 4th 2015 - 05:02 UTC

  Lula da Silva's 'fund-raiser' Dirceu again involved: this time with Petrobras

  

  Brazilian police on Monday arrested former government minister Jose Dirceu, one of the most senior members of the ruling Workers' Party to be detained so far in a corruption scandal engulfing state-run oil company Petrobras.

• Friday, July 17th 2015 - 04:48 UTC

  Brazil's corruption scandals reach Lula da Silva: probe into influence peddling

  

  Prosecutors in Brazil have announced a probe into possible influence peddling by former president Lula da Silva, involving the construction firm Odebrecht which is one of Latin America's largest engineering company. The investigation will center on Lula's alleged use of his clout after leaving office to help scandal-ridden construction giant Odebrecht land billion-dollar contracts in Latin America and Africa.

• Wednesday, July 8th 2015 - 07:37 UTC

  Dilma rejects any suggestion of stepping down and blames “a bunch of coup mongers”

  

  Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff said in an interview published Tuesday in the daily Folha de Sao Paulo that there's no reason she should be ousted, so she has no fear being removed. Rousseff went further and accused certain sectors of the opposition of being “a bunch of coup mongers”.

• Tuesday, July 7th 2015 - 06:55 UTC

  Brazil's main opposition party ready “to take on whatever the future holds”

  

  Brazil' former president Fernando Henrique Cardoso said on Sunday addressing his party's convention, the main opposition force in the Brazilian congress, that the PSDB was ready 'to clear the country of its problems' and accused leader Lula da Silva and the ruling Workers Party (PT) of bankrupting Brazil.

• Tuesday, July 7th 2015 - 06:23 UTC

  'Impeachment' and 'fresh elections' in Brazil's congressional debate

  

  Brazil's leading political commentator and O Globo columnist, Ricardo Noblat is forecasting that president Dilma Rousseff will not conclude her four-year mandate and could very well be out of office by next October.

• 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.