Tag: Workers' Party (Brazil)

Sunday, March 15th 2015 - 02:25 UTC
Brazil readies for Sunday’s mass protests; tepid marches in support of Dilma on Friday

Pro-government labor unions, student organizations and social activists staged demonstrations across Brazil on Friday in support of President Dilma Rousseff, two days before mass protests planned against her administration.
Wednesday, February 18th 2015 - 04:05 UTC
Web-campaign to impeach Rousseff gains ground with 2million e-petitions

Calls are growing in Brazil to impeach President Dilma Rousseff over a multi-billion dollar corruption scandal involving the state-run oil giant Petrobras. While the country celebrates its annual Carnival, with the 2015 Samba Competition wrapping up in Rio de Janeiro, there has been a growing clamor on the web and in the streets, with millions of Brazilians asking for the impeachment of their president.
Friday, February 6th 2015 - 23:27 UTC
Market reacts negatively to Petrobras new CEO: too political and too close to Rousseff

Shares in Brazil's oil giant Petrobras plunged Friday as banking executive Aldemir Bendine, who is seen as too close to President Dilma Rousseff's party, was named the scandal-hit firm's new chief executive.
Friday, February 6th 2015 - 06:57 UTC
Brazil ruling party's treasurer questioned on the Petrobras corruption probe

Brazilian federal police said on Thursday they had started questioning João Vaccari Neto, the treasurer of the country's ruling Workers' Party, as a corruption probe focused on state-run oil company Petrobras widened to include political figures.
Tuesday, February 3rd 2015 - 06:35 UTC
Brazil's Lower House elects as speaker a critic of President Rousseff's policies

Brazil's Congress elected a conservative as speaker of the Chamber of Deputies on Sunday in a setback for the ruling Workers' Party that split President Dilma Rousseff's coalition and will complicate her legislative agenda.
Wednesday, November 19th 2014 - 06:57 UTC
Petrobras corruption: plea bargains with the return of 165m dollars with five accused

Five people accused in a corruption scandal at Brazil's state oil giant Petrobras have agreed to return 165 million dollars to the public purse in plea bargains with prosecutors, a newspaper reported Tuesday.
Wednesday, November 12th 2014 - 06:38 UTC
Rousseff tells Congress it will miss the fiscal target; resigning minister calls for a “shock of credibility”

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff on Tuesday asked Congress to allow the government to deduct all of its investments and tax exemptions from a key 2014 fiscal target, effectively lowering a goal that it will miss for the third straight year.
Friday, November 7th 2014 - 22:44 UTC
Despite Rousseff, extreme poverty grows for the first time in a decade

The number of Brazilians living in extreme poverty grew for the first time in a decade, according to government figures. The Institute of Economic Research reported that the number of people in households with incomes below the poverty threshold of 30 dollars rose from 10.1 to 10.5 million people, which means a 3.7% increase.
Monday, November 3rd 2014 - 11:14 UTC
President Dilma Rousseff's re-election exposes a divided Brazil

The re-election of President Dilma Rousseff's in Brazil has exposed a deeply divided country with an overwhelming support for the incumbent in the impoverished northeast, where millions receive benefits from huge welfare programs the ruling Workers Party (PT) has rolled out over the past decade.
Thursday, October 30th 2014 - 10:33 UTC
The challenges faced by Dilma Rousseff

In a strong editorial the influential Folha de Sao Paulo argues that Brazil's reelected President Dilma Rousseff must reestablish confidence to the nation, which is divided regionally and socially, must implement a fluid dialogue with productive Brazil because the economy needs changes and new faces, and must rule for all the country, because victory was the result of millimetrical dispute in Sunday's runoff.