Tag: Workers' Party (Brazil)

• Friday, August 14th 2015 - 09:23 UTC

  Political ally who can save Rousseff from impeachment wants Brazil out of Mercosur

  

  Renan Calheiros, president of the Brazilian Senate, and the man who could help President Dilma Rousseff avoid impeachment in Congress, has proposed a package of measures to rescue Brazil from its current stagflation, but among his demands is “an end to the customs union of Mercosur”.

• 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.

• 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.

• Saturday, July 18th 2015 - 08:10 UTC

  Rousseff, ever so weakened and isolated warns of “anti democratic adventures”

  

  Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff told regional peers on Friday there is no room for “anti-democratic adventures” in South America, a day after the speaker of Brazil's lower house said he was weighing legal arguments for her impeachment. Speaking to the heads of state of Mercosur, Rousseff said political leaders should strive for dialogue to resolve ideological differences.

• Thursday, July 9th 2015 - 06:18 UTC

  Petrobras 'suspicious' activities could involve as much as 16bn dollars

  

  Investigators with Brazil’s Finance Ministry say they have identified as much as US$16 billion worth of suspicious activity that may be part of a kickback scandal engulfing the state-owned oil company Petrobras.

• 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 - 06:46 UTC

  Brazilian organizations allege there is an attempt to topple President Rousseff

  

  A raft of Brazilian organizations issued a statement on Monday denouncing what they described as the 'right's' attempts to topple President Dilma Rousseff. The statement was signed by 28 groups including the MST Landless Movement and the Catholic Church's Pastoral Land Commission.

• 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.