Tag: Workers' Party (Brazil)

• Thursday, June 23rd 2022 - 08:12 UTC

  Lula's team releases government plan

  

  Brazil's opposition presidential candidate Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva has released his government plan, which includes international cooperation, new labor legislation, and differentiated taxation on the wealthiest.

• Saturday, November 9th 2019 - 10:59 UTC

  Hundreds cheer Lula da Silva as he walks from jail a free man

  

  Brazil's icon Lula da Silva walked free from jail on Friday after a year and a half behind bars for corruption following a court ruling that could release thousands of convicts. The former president, wearing a black T-shirt and suit jacket, pumped his fist in the air as he exited the federal police headquarters in the southern city of Curitiba and was quickly mobbed by hundreds of supporters and journalists.

• Monday, July 1st 2019 - 09:54 UTC

  Massive rallies on Sunday in support of Brazilian Minister of Justice

  

  Thousands protested in Brazil on Sunday in support of Justice Minister Sergio Moro, who is battling claims he conspired with prosecutors on his anti-corruption drive to keep former leader Lula da Silva from another presidential run.

• Saturday, April 27th 2019 - 09:45 UTC

  Lula da Silva claims that Brazil is governed by “a gang of madmen”

  

  Former Brazilian president Lula da Silva on Friday said the country is governed by a “gang of madmen” in his first interview from prison, where he is serving an almost nine-year sentence.

• Monday, April 8th 2019 - 11:20 UTC

  Thousands of followers rallied to support ex president Lula da Silva outside his prison

  

  Several thousand supporters of former Brazilian president Lula Inacio da Silva rallied on Sunday outside the prison where he has now been held for a year, as they demanded his release and chanted slogans against current leader Jair Bolsonaro.

• Monday, March 4th 2019 - 07:45 UTC

  Lula back in prison after attending the funeral of his grandson Arthur

  

  Ex Brazilian president Lula da Silva is back in prison after being let out to attend his grandson Arthur's funeral. The seven-year-old died of meningitis on Friday. Lula was allowed to go to the burial in São Paulo on Saturday, where supporters gathered to greet him. Lula is serving 12 years in prison on corruption charges.

• Thursday, February 7th 2019 - 09:19 UTC

  Lula, in a new corruption conviction is sentenced to another 13 years in prison

  

  A Brazilian court on Wednesday handed a near 13-year sentence to Lula da Silva, in a new corruption conviction for the former president already serving a lengthy jail term in a separate case.

• Thursday, November 8th 2018 - 06:55 UTC

  Brazil future Justice minister Moro pledges to fight organized crime and corruption

  

  The judge who is the most prominent face of Brazil's anti-corruption campaign denied that his appointment as justice minister was a reward for having convicted and jailed a political rival of his new boss.

• Tuesday, November 6th 2018 - 07:01 UTC

  Lula challenges conviction arguing “proven bias” of Brazil's next Justice minister

  

  Ex Brazilian president Lula da Silva has challenged his corruption conviction, arguing that the judge behind his conviction has “proven his bias” by accepting a cabinet post under a political rival. The petition filed on Monday with Brazil's highest court asks Lula, who is currently serving a 12-year sentence, to be freed and his conviction overturned.

• Friday, November 2nd 2018 - 07:11 UTC

  Controversy in Brazil as anti graft Judge Moro accepts post as Justice minister

  

  Brazilian far-right President-elect Jair Bolsonaro has convinced crusading anti-graft Judge Sergio Moro to become his justice minister, the two said on Thursday, delighting supporters and enraging critics “by hiring the jurist who jailed Bolsonaro's chief political rival”.